Correspondence, invariance, and heuristics : essays in honour of Heinz Post /
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| Imprint: | Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic, c1993. |
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| Description: | xxiii, 356 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Boston studies in the philosophy of science v. 148 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1496205 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Harmke Kamminga, Steven French and Melvin Earles
- Correspondence, Invariance and Heuristics / Heinz R. Post
- Correspondence and Reduction in Chemistry / Eric R. Scerri
- Taking Antecedent Conditions Seriously: A Lesson in Heuristics From Biology / Harmke Kamminga
- The Rise of the 'Fifth Force' / Allan Franklin
- Michael Faraday's Thought: Discovery or Revelation? / Elspeth Crawford
- Ideology, Heuristics and Rationality in the Context of Discovery / Noretta Koertge
- Towards an Acceptable Theory of Acceptance: Partial Structures, Inconsistency and Correspondence / Newton C.A. Da Costa and Steven French
- Tales from the Classroom: The See-Saw / Avinash K. Puri
- The Unnatural Nature of the Laws of Nature: Symmetry and Asymmetry / Giora Hon
- Galilean Relativity and Galileo's Relativity / Alan Chalmers
- Pragmatic Circles in Relativistic Time Keeping / Clive Kilmister and Barrie Tonkinson
- Correspondence, Invariance and Heuristics in the Emergency of Special Relativity / Harvey R. Brown
- Underdetermination, Conventionalism and Realism: The Copenhagen vs. The Bohm Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics / James T. Cushing
- Measurement and Quantum Silence / Arthur Fine
- To What Physics Corresponds / Simon Saunders
- Is the End of Physics in Sight? / Michael Redhead.
