Télécharger le livre :  Scientific Representation

Bas C. van Fraassen presents an original exploration of how we represent the world. Science represents natural phenomena by means of theories, as well as in many concrete ways by such means as pictures, graphs, table-top models, and computer simulations. Scientific...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2010-07-22

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Télécharger le livre :  Scientific Representation

Bas C. van Fraassen presents an original exploration of how we represent the world. Science represents natural phenomena by means of theories, as well as in many concrete ways by such means as pictures, graphs, table-top models, and computer simulations. Scientific...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2008-08-14

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Télécharger le livre :  Quantum Mechanics

After introducing the empiricist point of view in philosophy of science, and the concepts and methods of the semantic approach to scientific theories, Professor van Fraassen discusses quantum theory in three stages. He first examines the question of whether and how...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 1991-09-26

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47,10

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Télécharger le livre :  Laws and Symmetry

Metaphysicians speak of laws of nature in terms of necessity and universality; scientists do so in terms of symmetry and invariance. This book argues that no metaphysical account of laws can succeed. The author analyses and rejects the arguments that there are laws of...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 1989-11-02

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30,43

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