Metaphysics in contemporary physics /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill Rodopi,
[2016]
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| Series: | Poznan Studies in the philosophy of the sciences and the humanities ;
104 |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Tomasz Bigaj and Christian Wuthrich
- Rethinking outside the toolbox : reflecting again on the relationship between philosophy of science and metaphysics / Steven French and Kerry McKenzie
- Ontology : an empirical fundamentalist approach / Douglas Kutach
- Quantum structure and spacetime / Vincent Lam
- Things ain't what they used to be : physics without objects / Dean Rickles and Jessica Bloom
- Particles in a quantum ontology of properties / Olimpia Lombardi and Dennis Dieks
- Essentialism and modern physics / Tomasz Bigaj
- Symmetry and qualitativity / Thomas MÃļler-Nielsen
- Relational time / Matteo Morganti
- General covariance, diffeomorphism invariance, and background independence in 5 dimensions / Antonio Vassallo
- A metaphysics from string dualities : pluralism, fundamentalism, modality / Ioan Muntean
- Is mereology empirical? : composition for fermions / Adam Caulton
- Physicalism and the part-whole relation / Andreas Huttemann
- Metaphysical emergence : weak and strong / Jessica Wilson
- The metaphysics of laws : dispositionalism vs. primitivism / Mauro Dorato and Michael Esfeld
- Classical and quantum sources of randomness / Marek Kus Renormalization for philosophers / Jeremy Butterfield and Nazim Bouatta.