Overview
- Provides the first systematic review of the Structural View on theories
- Presents a toolkit for analyzing theories and theory relations
- Offers a precisely defined concept for incorporating imprecision into formal philosophy of science
Part of the book series: Fundamental Theories of Physics (FTPH, volume 213)
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Johannes Mierau's academic background is in physics, in which he graduated
in 2014. He specialized in theoretical condensed matter physics
and went on to do a PhD in the field of philosophy of science,
with special emphasis on the philosophy of physics, under the
supervision of Prof. Dr. Dr. Brigitte Falkenburg at Technical
University of Dortmund. In his PhD-thesis, he applied Scheibe's
theory to show that the purported paradox of phase transitions, an
extensively discussed problem in philosophy of physics, is the
product of the disregard of the imprecise nature of the involved
physical theories.
Johannes Mierau is currently working as a post-doctoral researcher for the chair of
theoretical philosophy and philosophy of the social sciences at
Witten/Herdecke University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Erhard Scheibe's Structuralism
Book Subtitle: Roots and Prospects
Authors: Johannes Mierau
Series Title: Fundamental Theories of Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25347-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-25346-1Published: 21 April 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-25349-2Published: 22 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-25347-8Published: 20 April 2023
Series ISSN: 0168-1222
Series E-ISSN: 2365-6425
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 178
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics, Philosophy of Science, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics