The scientist as philosopher : philosophical consequences of great scientific discoveries /
"The Scientist as Philosopher explores the interaction between physics and philosophy. The book places the scientist-philosphers in the limelight as we learn how their scientific discoveries forced them to reconsider the time-honored notions with which science had described the natural world. T...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; New York :
Springer,
c2004.
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| Summary: | "The Scientist as Philosopher explores the interaction between physics and philosophy. The book places the scientist-philosphers in the limelight as we learn how their scientific discoveries forced them to reconsider the time-honored notions with which science had described the natural world. The book explains how our understanding of science and nature has undergone fundamental conceptual changes as a result of the discoveries of electromagnetism, thermodynamics and atomic structure. Even more dramatically, the quantum theory and special theory of relativity questioned traditional assumptions about causation and the passage of time. The book elucidates how these two thoeries affected these traditional notions. The author concludes that the entanglement between science and philosophy is an evolutionary process, which will keep them forever intertwined."--Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 342 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-318) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 3540205802 (acid-free paper) |