Metaphysics in Contemporary Physics

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Boston: Brill | Rodopi (2015)
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The book _Metaphysics in Contemporary Physics_ offers various perspectives on the relation and mutual influence between modern physical theories and analytic metaphysics

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B67.M47 2016

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9789004309630   9789004310827   9004309632

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A metaphysics from string dualities : pluralism, fundamentalism, modality.Ioan Muntean
Classical and quantum sources of randomness.Marek Kuś
Essentialism and modern physics.Tomasz Bigaj
General Covariance, Diffeomorphism Invariance, and Background Independence in 5 Dimensions.Antonio Vassallo
Introduction.Tomasz Bigaj & Christian Wüthrich
Metaphysical emergence : weak and strong.Jessica Wilson
Ontology : an empirical fundamentalist approach.Douglas Kutach
Particles in a quantum ontology of properties.Olimpia Lombardi & Dennis Dieks
Quantum structure and spacetime.Vincent Lam
Rethinking outside the toolbox : reflecting again on the relationship between philosophy of science and metaphysics.Steven French & Kerry McKenzie
Symmetry and qualitativity.Thomas Møller-Nielsen
The metaphysics of laws : dispositionalism vs. primitivism.Mauro Dorato & Michael Esfeld
Things ain't what they used to be : physics without objects.Dean Rickles & Jessica Bloom
Relational Time.  (pages 215-236)Matteo Morganti
Metaphysics from String Theory: S-Dualities, Fundamentality, Modality and Pluralism.  (pages 259–292)Ioan Muntean
Is mereology empirical? : composition for fermions.  (pages 293–321)Adam Caulton
Physicalism and the Part-Whole Relation.  (pages 323-344)Andreas Hüttemann
Renormalization for philosophers.  (pages 437–485)Jeremy Butterfield & Nazim Bouatta

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