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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Philosopher Scientist
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The Scientist Philosopher
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Back Matter
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About this book
How do major scientific discoveries reshape their originators’, and our own, sense of reality and concept of the physical world? The Scientist as Philosopher explores the interaction between physics and philosophy. Clearly written and well illustrated, the book first places the scientist-philosophers in the limelight as we learn how their great scientific discoveries forced them to reconsider the time-honored notions with which science had described the natural world. Then, the book explains that what we understand by nature and science have undergone fundamental conceptual changes as a result of the discoveries of electromagnetism, thermodynamics and atomic structure. Even more dramatically, the quantum theory and special theory of relativity questioned traditional assumptions about causation and the passage of time. The author concludes that the dance between science and philosophy is an evolutionary process, which will keep them forever entwined.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Scientist as Philosopher
Book Subtitle: Philosophical Consequences of Great Scientific Discoveries
Authors: Friedel Weinert
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b138529
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-20580-7Published: 07 April 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-21374-1Published: 25 November 2004
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-27031-7Published: 18 October 2005
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 344
Topics: Physics, general, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary, Philosophy, general, Popular Science, general