UID:
almahu_9947415052202882
Format:
1 online resource (viii, 272 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511527333 (ebook)
Content:
This book is about the methods used for unifying different scientific theories under one all-embracing theory. The process has characterized much of the history of science and is prominent in contemporary physics; the search for a 'theory of everything' involves the same attempt at unification. Margaret Morrison argues that, contrary to popular philosophical views, unification and explanation often have little to do with each other. The mechanisms that facilitate unification are not those that enable us to explain how or why phenomena behave as they do. A feature of this book is an account of many case studies of theory unification in nineteenth- and twentieth-century physics and of how evolution by natural selection and Mendelian genetics were unified into what we now term evolutionary genetics.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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The Many Faces of Unity.
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Kepler: Unity as Mathematical Metaphysics.
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Kant: Unity as a Heuristic and Logical Principle.
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Whewell: Unity as Consilience and Certainty.
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Logical Empiricism: Unity as Method and Integration.
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Unity as Explanation --
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Unification, Realism and Inference.
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The Friedman Model.
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The Importance of Conjunction.
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Reduction versus Representation.
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Consilience and Unification.
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Unification as an Evidential or Epistemic Virtue.
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Derivation of the van der Waals Law: Historical Details --
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Maxwell's Unification of Electromagnetism and Optics.
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Development of Electromagnetic Theory: The Early Stages.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521652162
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511527333
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511527333
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