Substance and method
Subtitle: studies in philosophy of science
By: Chuang Liu
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Singapore; Hackensack, NJ
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789814632188
Subjects: Science; Methodology; Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Fictional models in science; title: The hypothetical versus the fictional; title: What is wrong with the new fictionalism of scientific models?; title: Re-inflating the conception of scientific representation; title: Idealization, confirmation, and scientific realism; title: Laws and models in a theory of idealization; title: Approximation and its measures; title: Approximation, idealization, and the laws of nature; title: Coordination of space and unity of science; title: Gauge gravity and the unification of natural forces; title: Models and theories II: issues and applications; title: Models and theories I: the semantic view revisited; title: Explaining quantum spontaneous symmetry breaking; title: Review: symmetries in physics: philosophical reflections; title: Classical spontaneous symmetry breaking; title: Spontaneous symmetry breaking and chance in a classical world; title: Approximations, idealizations, and models in statistical mechanics; title: Infinite systems in SM explanations: thermodynamic limit, renormalization (semi-) groups, and irreversibility; title: Explaining the emergence of cooperative phenomena; title: A possible unified understanding of probabilistic objects; title: Particularism and holism revisited; title: Potential, propensity and categorical realism; title: The Aharonov-Bohm effect and the reality of wave packets; title: Realism and spacetime: of arguments against metaphysical realism and manifold realism; title: Gauge invariance, Cauchy problem, indeterminism, and symmetry breaking; title: Is there a relativistic thermodynamics? a case study of the meaning of special relativity.