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Philosophy --- Metaphysics --- Quantum mechanics. Quantumfield theory --- Elementary particles --- elementaire deeltjes --- quantumfysica --- filosofie --- metafysica
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The physics of condensed matter, in contrast to quantum physics or cosmology, is not traditionally associated with deep philosophical questions. However, as science - largely thanks to more powerful computers - becomes capable of analysing and modelling ever more complex many-body systems, basic questions of philosophical relevance arise. Questions about the emergence of structure, the nature of cooperative behaviour, the implications of the second law, the quantum-classical transition and many other issues. This book is a collection of essays by leading physicists and philosophers. Each investigates one or more of these issues, making use of examples from modern condensed matter research. Physicists and philosophers alike will find surprising and stimulating ideas in these pages.
Philosophy of science --- Discrete mathematics --- Mathematical statistics --- Mathematics --- History of physics --- Quantum mechanics. Quantumfield theory --- Classical mechanics. Field theory --- Statistical physics --- Solid state physics --- Matter physics --- Physics --- EMI (electromagnetic interference) --- materie (fysica) --- quantummechanica --- grafentheorie --- statistiek --- wetenschapsfilosofie --- fysica --- dynamica
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This book provides a comprehensive account of Kant’s development from the 1755/56 metaphysics to the cosmological antinomy of 1781. With the Theory of the Heavens (1755) and the Physical Monadology (1756), the young Kant had presented an ambitious approach to physical cosmology based on an atomistic theory of matter, which contributed to the foundations of an all-encompassing system of metaphysics. Why did he abandon this system in favor of his critical view that cosmology runs into an antinomy, according to the Critique of Pure Reason (CPR)? This book answers this question by focusing on Kant’s methodology and the internal problems of his 1755/56 theory of nature. A decisive role for Kant’s critical turn plays the argument from incongruent counterparts (1768), which drew much attention among philosophers of science, though not sufficiently in Kant research. Furthermore, the book analyses the genesis of the cosmological antinomy in the 1770s, the logical structure of the antinomy in the CPR, its relation to transcendental idealism, as explained in the “experiment of pure reason” (1787), and its role for the teleology of human reason. The book is addressed to Kant scholars, philosophers of science, and students of Kant’s philosophy.
Philosophy --- Metaphysics --- Philosophy of nature --- Philosophy of science --- Biology --- biologie --- filosofie --- wetenschapsfilosofie --- metafysica
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