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  title info:
    title: On theories
    sub title: logical empiricism and the methodology of modern physics
  name:
    name part: Demopoulos, William
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Friedman, Michael
    name part: 1947-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxiv, 247 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: The final work of the esteemed philosopher William Demopoulos supplants logical empiricism's accounts of physical theories, which fail to satisfactorily engage modern physics. Arguing for a new appreciation of the tightly woven character of theory and evidence, Demopoulos offers novel insights into the distinctive nature of quantum reality.
  table of contents: Logical empiricist and related reconstructions of theoretical knowledge: The partial interpretation account of theories -- Carnap on Ramsey sentences and the explicit definition of theoretical terms -- A proposal of David Lewis and two theorems of John Winnie -- Putnam's model-theoretic argument -- Ramsey on Russell's analysis of matter and the partial interpretation of theories -- Constructive empiricism and partial interpretation -- 2. Molecular reality: The molecular hypothesis -- Molecular reality and Brownian motion -- The nature and status of Perrin's "connecting link" -- Perrin's argument for molecular reality -- Thomson and the constitution of cathode rays -- 3. Poincaré on the theories of modern physics: Poincaré on "true relations" -- Robustness versus consilience -- Poincaré and scientific realism -- Russell and Poincaré -- 4. Quantum reality: Bohr on the primacy of classical concepts -- Complementarity, completeness, and Einstein's "local realism" -- Bell's theorem and Einstein's local realism -- Quantum mechanics and reality.
  note: William Demopoulos ; edited with a foreword and afterword by Michael Friedman.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Empiricism
  subject:
    topic: Physics
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Quantum theory
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Philosophy
  classification: B816 .D46 2022
  classification: 171/.2
  identifier: 9780674237575
  identifier: 0674237579
  identifier: 2021020465
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210609
    record change date: 20220414153408.2
    record identifier: in00004561648