Interpreting Physics

Download or read book Interpreting Physics written by Edward MacKinnon and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-11-23 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to offer a systematic account of the role of language in the development and interpretation of physics. An historical-conceptual analysis of the co-evolution of mathematical and physical concepts leads to the classical/quatum interface. Bohrian orthodoxy stresses the indispensability of classical concepts and the functional role of mathematics. This book analyses ways of extending, and then going beyond this orthodoxy orthodoxy. Finally, the book analyzes how a revised interpretation of physics impacts on basic philosophical issues: conceptual revolutions, realism, and reductionism.