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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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Physics --- Thermodynamics. --- Physics. --- Philosophy. --- Natural philosophy --- Philosophy, Natural --- Physical sciences --- Dynamics --- Chemistry, Physical and theoretical --- Mechanics --- Heat --- Heat-engines --- Quantum theory

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Der Band zeichnet ein facettenreiches Bild der Schnittstellen, an denen sich die Philosophie heute im Dialog mit den Einzelwissenschaften befindet. Während naturwissenschaftliche Erklärungen größere Relevanz denn je für unser Naturverständnis und Menschenbild beanspruchen, ist ihre Tragweite in vielen Hinsichten ungeklärt. Weil in der heutigen Forschungslandschaft die Grenzen zwischen Natur, Technik und Kultur verschwimmen, kommt der Philosophie die Aufgabe zu, die Konturen zu schärfen. Dabei geht es aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven immer wieder um Reduktionsversuche und ihre Grenzen - im Verhältnis von Naturerkenntnis und Technikorientierung, realistischen und instrumentalistischen Einstellungen, einheitlichen und uneinheitlichen Erklärungen, physikalischen und biologischen GeSetzmäßigkeiten, neurophysiologischen und kulturellen Determinanten, technisch-ökonomischen und ganz anderen menschlichen Interessen. Mit Beiträgen von Martin Carrier, Eva-Maria Engelen, Brigitte Falkenburg & Wolfgang Rhode, Susanne Hauser, Reiner Hedrich, Andreas Keil, Kristian Köchy, Reiner Kümmel, Eva M. Neuman-Held, Thomas Petersen, Rudolf Schüßler und Marcel Weber.

Philosophy of nature --- Science --- Technology --- Philosophy

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The book is a historical introduction to astroparticle physics. Its scope is to give an overview of this complex field of research, starting with the discovery of cosmic rays (Victor Hess, 1912) until the current experiments with particle telescopes. The book focuses on the ways in which physics changes in the course of this history. The following changes run parallel, overlap, and/or interact:   - Discovery of effects like X-rays, radioactivity, cosmic rays, new   particles, the Cosmic Microwave Background and its anisotropies, but also progress through non-discoveries (monopoles) etc.   - The change of the description of nature in physics, as consequence of   the scientific revolutions at the beginning of the 20th century, giving rise to quantum physics, relativity, etc.   - The shifts from particle physics to cosmology and to particle physics   with cosmic accelerators.   - The change of experimental methods, cooperations, and disciplinary divisions.   With regard to the latter change, a main topic of the book is to make the specific multi-disciplinary features of astroparticle physics clear to undergraduate and graduate students, historians of physics, and philosophers of science.

Cosmology. --- Nuclear astrophysics. --- Particles (Nuclear physics). --- Nuclear astrophysics --- Particles (Nuclear physics) --- Astronomy & Astrophysics --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Astrophysics --- History --- Elementary particles (Physics) --- High energy physics --- Nuclear particles --- Nucleons --- Physics. --- Astronomy. --- Astrophysics. --- Astrophysics and Astroparticles. --- History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics. --- Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology. --- Nuclear physics --- Natural philosophy --- Philosophy, Natural --- Physical sciences --- Dynamics --- Astronomical physics --- Astronomy --- Cosmic physics --- Physics