Unifying Scientific Theories | Taschenbuch

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This book is about the methods used for unifying different scientific theories under one all-embracing theory. The process has characterized much of the history of science and is prominent in contemporary physics; the search for a 'theory of everything' involves the same attempt at unification. Margaret Morrison argues that, contrary to popular philosophical views, unification and explanation often have little to do with each other. The mechanisms that facilitate unification are not those that enable us to explain how or why phenomena behave as they do. A feature of this book is an account of many case studies of theory unification in nineteenth- and twentieth-century physics and of how evolution by natural selection and Mendelian genetics were unified into what we now term evolutionary genetics.

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The many faces of unity; 2. Unification, realism and inference; 3. Maxwell's unification of electromagnetism and optics; 4. Gauges, symmetries and forces: the electroweak unification; 5. Special relativity and the unity of physics; 6. Darwin and natural selection: unification versus explanation; 7. Structural unity and the biological synthesis; Conclusions; Notes; References; Index.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2007
Genre:	Importe , Technik allg.
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9780521037600
ISBN-10:	0521037603
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Morrison, Margaret Margaret, Morrison
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Margaret Morrison (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	23.04.2007
Gewicht:	0,465 kg