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Physics, logic, and history : based on the First International Colloquium held at the University of Denver, May 16-20, 1966
- Title
- Physics, logic, and history : based on the First International Colloquium held at the University of Denver, May 16-20, 1966 / edited by Wolfgang Yourgrau and Allen D. Breck ; contributors Hermann Bondi [and others].
- Publication
- New York : Plenum Press, 1970.
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- Description
- xiv, 336 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Actes de congrès.
- Note
- Revisions of papers originally presented at the First International Colloquium on Logic, Physical Reality, and History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographies.
- Contents
- A realist view of logic, physics, and history / Sir Karl Popper -- Knowledge and physical reality / André Mercier -- The science of history and notions of personality / Herman Tennessen -- The growth of a theoretical model: a simple case study / Håkan Törnebohm -- Existence / Willard Van Orman Quine -- The problems of unifying cosmology with microphysics / Dmitri D. Ivanenko -- The evolution of evolution / Julian Victor Langmead Casserley -- Plea for pluralism in philosophy and physics / Arne Naess -- On semantic information / Jaakko Hintikka -- Quantification and ontological commitment / Czesław Lejewski -- Possible internal subquantum motions of elementary particles / Jean-Pierre Vigier -- The three kings of physics / George Gamow -- Skepticism and the study of history / Richard H. Popkin -- Causation in history / Robert S. Cohen -- Relativity theory and historicity of physical systems / Hans-Jürgen Treder -- General relativity as an open theory / Hermann Bondi -- What is Russell's theory of descriptions? / David Kaplan -- The non-quantal foundations of quantum mechanics / Alfred Landé -- Some problems of the connection between technical development and economic history / György Ránki -- Is science human? / Hermann Bondi.
- ISBN
- 0306303604
- 9780306303609
- LCCN
- 68031235
- OCLC
- ocm00112107
- 112107
- SCSB-238633
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library