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Process Realism in Physics
How Experiment and History Necessitate a Process Ontology
Buch von William Penn
Sprache: Englisch

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Science should tell us what the world is like. However, realist interpretations of physics face many problems, chief among them the pessimistic meta induction. This book seeks to develop a realist position based on process ontology that avoids the traditional problems of realism. Primarily, the core claim is that in order for a scientific model to be minimally empirically adequate, that model must describe real experimental processes and dynamics. Any additional inferences from processes to things, substances or objects are not warranted, and so these inferences are shown to represent the locus of the problems of realism. The book then examines the history of physics to show that the progress of physical research is one of successive eliminations of thing interpretations of models in favor of more explanatory and experimentally verified process interpretations. This culminates in collections of models that cannot coherently allow for thing interpretations, but still successfully describe processes.
Science should tell us what the world is like. However, realist interpretations of physics face many problems, chief among them the pessimistic meta induction. This book seeks to develop a realist position based on process ontology that avoids the traditional problems of realism. Primarily, the core claim is that in order for a scientific model to be minimally empirically adequate, that model must describe real experimental processes and dynamics. Any additional inferences from processes to things, substances or objects are not warranted, and so these inferences are shown to represent the locus of the problems of realism. The book then examines the history of physics to show that the progress of physical research is one of successive eliminations of thing interpretations of models in favor of more explanatory and experimentally verified process interpretations. This culminates in collections of models that cannot coherently allow for thing interpretations, but still successfully describe processes.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Philosophie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: XI
194 S.
6 farbige Illustr.
4 s/w Tab.
6 col. ill.
4 b/w tbl.
ISBN-13: 9783110782370
ISBN-10: 3110782375
Sprache: Englisch
Autor: Penn, William
Hersteller: De Gruyter
Abbildungen: 6 col. ill., 4 b/w tbl.
Maße: 16 x 161 x 234 mm
Von/Mit: William Penn
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.07.2023
Gewicht: 0,42 kg
Artikel-ID: 126640747
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Philosophie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: XI
194 S.
6 farbige Illustr.
4 s/w Tab.
6 col. ill.
4 b/w tbl.
ISBN-13: 9783110782370
ISBN-10: 3110782375
Sprache: Englisch
Autor: Penn, William
Hersteller: De Gruyter
Abbildungen: 6 col. ill., 4 b/w tbl.
Maße: 16 x 161 x 234 mm
Von/Mit: William Penn
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.07.2023
Gewicht: 0,42 kg
Artikel-ID: 126640747
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