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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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Additional Authors
  • Bondi, Hermann.
  • Yourgrau, Wolfgang
  • Breck, Allen duPont
  • International Colloquium on Logic, Physical Reality, and History (1st : 1966 : University of Denver)
Description
xiv, 336 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • Physics > Philosophy > Congresses
  • Logic > Congresses
  • History > Philosophy > Congresses
  • History > Philosophy
  • Logic
  • Physics > Philosophy
  • Fisica (Filosofia)
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
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Princeton University Library