Philosophie der Physik. Eine Einführung

Philosophie der Physik. Eine Einführung

Monograph

Norman Sieroka

2022

This volume offers a systematic and generally understandable introduction to philosophical questions in physics and its historical development. It begins with a presentation of important stages in the history of physics in antiquity, the early modern period and the past two centuries, and uses them to illustrate central epistemological features of physics. It discusses typical explanatory strategies, the role of experiments and predictions, the procedure for forming concepts and theories and the importance of mathematics.

2nd edn. München: Beck.

ISBN: 978-3-406-66794-7

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