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Between Rationalism and Empiricism

Selected Papers in the Philosophy of Physics

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  • © 2001

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Authors:
  1. Erhard Scheibe

    1. Hamburg, Germany

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Editors:
  1. Brigitte Falkenburg

    1. Institut für Philosophie, Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

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  • Scheibe is one of the most important philosophers of sciences in Germany.
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VIII
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  2. Between Rationalism and Empiricism

    • Erhard Scheibe
    Pages 1-86

  3. The Philosophy of the Physicists

    • Erhard Scheibe
    Pages 87-155

  4. Reconstruction

    • Erhard Scheibe
    Pages 157-227

  5. Laws of Nature

    • Erhard Scheibe
    Pages 229-301

  6. Reduction

    • Erhard Scheibe
    Pages 303-377

  7. Foundations of Quantum Mechanics

    • Erhard Scheibe
    Pages 379-451

  8. Spacetime, Invariance, Covariance

    • Erhard Scheibe
    Pages 453-512

  9. Mathematics and Physics

    • Erhard Scheibe
    Pages 513-583

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 585-627
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About this book

Erhard Scheibe is one of the most outstanding German philosophers of science. He has written extensively on all the problems that confront the philosophy of mathematics and physics: rationalism versus empiricism, the laws of nature, and reductionism. He has published books on the logical foundations of quantum mechanics and on the reduction of physical theories. Little of his work has been translated into English. This collection of 38 essays is intended to remedy this omission and to help to make Erhard Scheibe's philosophical ideas better known to an international audience.

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"This volume contains 38 selected papers by Erhard Scheibe. … This book is highly recommended to all physicists who like to contemplate about their science. The author … knows the language of mathematicians and physicists and explains the philosophy in a very readable and illuminating style. The topics of the collected articles meet central points of the philosophy of nature, the theory of knowledge, and the theory of science." (K.-E. Hellwig, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1088 (14), 2006)

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  • Institut für Philosophie, Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

    Brigitte Falkenburg

  • Hamburg, Germany

    Erhard Scheibe

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