<p>This book is the first to offer a systematic account of the role of language in the development and interpretation of physics. An historical-conceptual analysis of the co-evolution of mathematical and physical concepts leads to the classical/quatum interface. Bohrian orthodoxy stresses the indisp
Interpreting physics: Language and the classical-quantum divide
โ Scribed by MacKinnon, Edward Michael
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 283
- Series
- Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 289
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
Content: Pt. 1. The language of physics --
pt. 2. The classical/quantum divide.
โฆ Subjects
Quantum theory -- Philosophy.
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