Rational Reconstructions of Modern Physics
Newton’s classical physics and its underlying ontology are loaded with several metaphysical hypotheses that cannot be justified by rational reasoning nor by experimental evidence. Furthermore, it is well known that some of these hypotheses are not contain
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Rational Reconstructions of Modern Physics by Peter Mittelstaedt
Peter Mittelstaedt Universita¨t Ko¨ln Inst. Theoretische Physik Zu¨lpicher Str. 77 50937 Ko¨ln, Germany [email protected]
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Preface
The present book on Rational Reconstructions of Modern Physics has evolved from investigations, lectures, and discussions with many colleagues in Physics and Philosophy during the last 10 years. Selected problems of this treatise were presented at various conferences, as the biennial meetings of the “International Quantum Structures Association” (IQSA) in 2002, 2006, and 2010, and at the annual conferences of the “Acade´mie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences” (AIPS), for instance in 2004. In particular, I mention here the lectures and discussions that I could contribute to the informal research seminars in Philosophy of Physics, which were organized by Brigitte Falkenburg at the University of Dortmund over a period of several years. – The stimulating discussions
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