From quarks to quasars
Subtitle: philosophical problems of modern physics
By: editor, Robert G. Colodny ; Alberto Coffa ... [et al.].
Contributors: Colodny, Robert Garland.; Coffa, Alberto.
Series: University of Pittsburgh series in the philosophy of science ;; v. 7
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 395
Subjects: Physics -- Philosophy.; Quantum theory.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and indexes.
Table of contents: title: From Geometry to tolerance : sources of conventionalism in nineteenth-century geometry / Alberto Goffa; title: Invariants and objectivity : a theory with applications to relativity and geometry / John A. Winnie; title: Newtonian gravity, limits, and the geometry of space / David B. Malament; title: Quantum mechanics and the received view of theories / Michael R. Gardner; title: Do quanta need a new logic? / John Stachel; title: Einstein and the quantum / John Stachel.