Philosophy, mathematics, and modern physics : a dialogue /

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Imprint:Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, c1994.
Description:viii, 242 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1656116
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Other authors / contributors:Rudolph, E. (Enno), 1945-
Stamatescu, I.-O. (Ion-Olimpiu), 1941-
ISBN:3540576835 (Berlin : acid-free paper)
0387576835 (New York : acid-free paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • On the Dialogue Between Physics and Philosophy / E. Rudolph and I.-O. Stamatescu
  • Questions Concerning Theory and Experience and the Role of Mathematics in Physical Science / I.-O. Stamatescu and H. Wismann
  • Is Conscious Awareness Consistent with Space-Time Descriptions? / R. Penrose
  • Space and Time: a Privileged Ground for Misunderstandings Between Physics and Philosophy / F. Lurcat
  • On Renormalization in Quantum Field Theory and the Structure of Space-Time / I.- O. Stamatescu
  • Quantum Theory - a Window to the World Beyond Physics / E.J. Squires
  • Quantum Cosmology and the Emergence of a Classical World / C. Kiefer
  • On the Origin of Structure in the Universe / J.B. Barbour
  • Galaxy Creation in a Non-Big-Bang Universe / H. Arp
  • What Kind of Science is Cosmology? / H.F.M. Goenner
  • On the Assumption That Our Concepts 'Structure the Material of Our Experience' / F. Muhlholzer
  • On the Mathematical Overdetermination of Physics / E. Scheibe
  • The Mathematical Frame of Quantum Field Theory / K. Fredenhagen
  • The Role of Mathematics in Contemporary Theoretical Physics / G. Munster
  • A Most General Principle of Invariance / E. Scheibe
  • Kant and the Straight Biangle / G. Prauss
  • Substance as Function: Ernst Cassirer's Interpretation of Leibniz as Criticism of Kant / E. Rudolph.