Faraday to Einstein: Constructing Meaning ...

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Einstein often expressed the sentiment that "the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility," and that science is the means through which we comprehend it. However, nearly every one - including scientists - agrees that the concepts of modem physics are quite incomprehensible: They are both unintelligible to the educated lay-person and to the scientific community itself, where there is much dispute over the interpretation of even (and especially) the most basic concepts. There is, of course, almost universal agreement that modem science quite adequately accounts for and predicts events, i. e. , that its calculations work better than those of classical physics; yet the concepts of science are supposed to be descriptive of 'the world' as well - they should enable us to comprehend it. So, it is asked, and needs tobe"asked: Has modem physics failed in an important respect? It failed with me as a physics student. I came to physics, as with most naIve students, out of a desire to know what the world is really like; in particular, to understand Einstein's conception of it. I thought I had grasped the concepts in classical mechanics, but with electrodynamics confusion set in and only increased with relativity and quantum mechanics. At that point I began even to doubt whether I had really understood the basic concepts of classical mechanics.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I. The Philosophical Situation: A Critical Appraisal.- 1: The 'standard' account of meaning.- 2: 'Meaning variance' and 'incommensurability'.- II. The Scientific Situation: An Historical Analysis.- 3: Faraday's 'lines of force'.- 4: Maxwell's 'Newtonian aether-field'.- 5: Lorentz' 'non-Newtonian aether-field'.- 6: Einstein's 'field'.- III. The Making of Meaning: A Proposal.- 7: Meaning in scientific practice.

Erscheinungsjahr:	1990
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	Antike
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Seiten:	212
Reihe:	Science and Philosophy
Inhalt:	xiv 196 S.
ISBN-13:	9780792309505
ISBN-10:	0792309502
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Nersessian, N. J.
Auflage:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1984
Hersteller:	Springer Netherland Springer Netherlands Science and Philosophy
Maße:	240 x 160 x 12 mm
Von/Mit:	N. J. Nersessian
Erscheinungsdatum:	31.10.1990
Gewicht:	0,347 kg

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