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On the metaphysics of experimental physics
- Title
- On the metaphysics of experimental physics / Karl Rogers.
- Author
- Rogers, Karl, 1967-
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
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- Description
- vii, 252 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "This book critically addresses the question of how experimental physics is conceptually and historically possible as a natural and empirical science. How have experimental physicists used technology to explore, model and understand nature? The argument of this book is that scientific realist and positivistic philosophies of science have both presupposed the same operational metaphysics: that natural phenomena and machine performances are consequences of the same natural principles, laws and mechanisms."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Ch. 1. Entering the cave of the shadow puppeteers -- Ch. 2. The spirit of the enterprise -- Ch. 3. The mathematical projection of the six simple machines -- Ch. 4. The "making" of the ground plan of nature -- Ch. 5. The anvil of practice and the art of experimentation -- Ch. 6. What enables us to build machines?
- ISBN
- 1403945284
- LCCN
- 2004051401
- OCLC
- ocm56753610
- SCSB-5189760
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries