The theoretical practices of physics : philosophical essays /
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| Author / Creator: | Hughes, R. I. G. |
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. |
| Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8401303 |
Table of Contents:
- Criticism, logical empiricism, and the general theory of relativity
- Theoretical practice : the Bohm-Pines Quartet
- Laws of physics, the representational account of theories, and Newton's Principia
- Modelling, the Brownian motion, and the disunities of physics
- Models and representation
- The Ising model, computer simulation, and universal physics
- Theoretical explanation
- The discourse of physics exemplified by the Aharonov-Bohm effect.