On Theories : : Logical Empiricism and the Methodology of Modern Physics / / William Demopoulos; ed. by Michael Friedman.

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• VerfasserIn: Demopoulos, William,
• HerausgeberIn: Friedman, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

A renowned philosopher’s final work, illuminating how the logical empiricist tradition has failed to appreciate the role of actual experiments in forming its philosophy of science. The logical empiricist treatment of physics dominated twentieth-century philosophy of science. But the logical empirici...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• Editor’s Foreword
• Introduction
• 1 Logical Empiricist and Related Reconstructions of Theoretical Knowledge
• 1.1 The Partial Interpretation Account of Theories
• 1.2 Carnap on Ramsey Sentences and the Explicit Definition of Theoretical Terms
• 1.3 A Proposal of David Lewis and Two Theorems of John Winnie
• 1.4 Putnam’s Model-Theoretic Argument
• 1.5 Ramsey on Russell’s Analysis of Matter and the Partial Interpretation of Theories
• 1.6 Constructive Empiricism and Partial Interpretation
• 2 Molecular Reality
• 2.1 The Molecular Hypothesis
• 2.2 Molecular Reality and Brownian Motion
• 2.3 The Nature and Status of Perrin’s “Connecting Link”
• 2.4 Perrin’s Argument for Molecular Reality
• 2.5 Thomson and the Constitution of Cathode Rays
• 3 Poincaré on the Theories of Modern Physics
• 3.1 Poincaré on “True Relations”
• 3.2 Robustness versus Consilience
• 3.3 Poincaré and Scientific Realism
• 3.4 Russell and Poincaré
• 4 Quantum Reality
• 4.1 Bohr on the Primacy of Classical Concepts
• 4.2 Complementarity, Completeness, and Einstein’s Local Realism
• 4.3 Bell’s Theorem and Einstein’s Local Realism
• 4.4 Quantum Mechanics and Reality
• Editor’s Afterword
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Acknowledgments
• Index