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AESTHETIC CRITERIA IN SCIECE IN GRZEGORZ BIAŁKOWSKI’S VIEW [PDF]
Filozofia i Nauka, 2022 The text presents the view of the Polish physicist Grzegorz Białkowski on using aesthetic criteria in the practice of science, first of all in the practice of physics.
Marcin Gileta
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Czy fizyka wskazuje na istnienie transcendencji? Dyskusja wokół książki "Fizyk w jaskini światów"
Studia Philosophiae Christianae, 2023 Professor Krzysztof A. Meissner proposes a picture of transcendence resulting from physics’ understanding of the world. The transcendence of which he speaks does not mean the Absolute-God, but the world of universal and unchanging laws of nature, which ...
Janina Buczkowska +3 more
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General Relativity and Philosophy [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2021 Is philosophy useful for physics? Many physicists and philosophers believe that it is; but there are those who challenge the usefulness of philosophy for science. Three major objections can be identified in their reasoning: 1.
Mohammad Ebrahim Maghsoudi +1 more
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Some Trends in the Philosophy of Physics
Theoria, 2011 A short review of some recent developments in the philosophy of physics is presented. I focus on themes which illustrate relations and points of common interest between philosophy of physics and three of its `neighboring' elds: Physics, metaphysics and ...
Henrik Zinkernagel
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Considerations on Scientific Thought Experiments [PDF]
Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems, 2018 I provide some considerations on scientific thought experiments, focusing on their epistemic value. First, I outline the distinctive features of scientific thought experiments, provide some historical background and, as an illustration, describe two ...
Maja Malec
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ON THE QUANTUM PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY POSTULATE
Filozofia i Nauka, 2022 This article analyses one of the trials aiming to bridge the incommensurability gap between special relativity and quantum mechanics in the form of postulating the quantum principle of relativity.
Jakub Kopyciński
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Quantum-Matter-Spacetime : Peter Mittelstaedt's Contributions to Physics and Its Foundations [PDF]
, 2010 In a period of over 50 years, Peter Mittelstaedt has made substantial and lasting contributions to several fields in theoretical physics as well as the foundations and philosophy of physics.
Ernst-Walther Stachow +4 more
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Seven properties of self-organization in the human brain [PDF]
, 2020 The principle of self-organization has acquired a fundamental significance in the newly emerging field of computational philosophy. Self-organizing systems have been described in various domains in science and philosophy including physics, neuroscience ...
Dresp-Langley, Birgitta
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We Need to Recreate Natural Philosophy
Philosophies, 2018 Modern science began as natural philosophy, an admixture of philosophy and science. It was then killed off by Newton, as a result of his claim to have derived his law of gravitation from the phenomena by induction.
Nicholas Maxwell
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In search of relativistic time [PDF]
, 2013 This paper explores the status of some notions which are usually associated to time, like datations, chronology, durations, causality, cosmic time and time functions in the Einsteinian relativistic theories. It shows how, even if some of these notions do
Lachieze-Rey, Marc
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