Book ID: CBB000069120

Physics and our view of the world (1994)

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Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 1994
Edition Details: Edited by Jan Hilgevoord
Physical Details: ix + 304 pp.; notes; bibl; index

Description Contents: Gerard 't Hooft: Questioning the answers or stumbling upon good and bad theories of everything. Barrow, John D.: Theories of everything. Dieks, Dennis: The scientific view of the world: Introduction. McMullin, Ernan: Enlarging the known world. Van Fraassen, Bas C.: The world of empiricism. Feyerabend, Paul: Has the scientific view of the world a special status compared with other views? Feyerabend, Paul: Quantum theory and our view of the world. Van Fraassen, Bas C.: Interpretation of science; science as intepretation. Drees, Willem B.: Problems in debates about physics and religion. Davies, Paul: The mind of God. Hesse, Mary B.: The sources of models for God: Metaphysics or metaphor?


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Authors & Contributors
Cushing, James T.
Strien, Marij van
Snelders, Henricus Adrianus Marie
Scheurer, P. B.
Ruse, Michael
Ruben, David-Hillel
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
Publishers
Oxford University Press
University Press of America
University of Notre Dame Press
Reidel
University of Wisconsin Press
University of Chicago Press
Concepts
Science
Philosophy of science
Explanation; hypotheses; theories
Empiricism
Quantum mechanics
Twin studies (social sciences)
People
Weyl, Hermann
Reichenbach, Hans
Newton, Isaac
Leeuwenhoek, Antoni van
Feyerabend, Paul K.
Bohr, Niels Henrik David
Time Periods
20th century
Places
Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)
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