Liu Ch. Substance and method: studies in philosophy of science. - Singapore; Hackensack: World Scientific, 2016. - xi, 533 p.: ill. - Bibliogr. at the end of the parts. - ISBN 978-981-4632-18-8 Шифр: (И/Ю25-L82) 02  Место хранения:   02 | Отделение ГПНТБ СО РАН | Новосибирск

Оглавление / Contents

Preface ......................................................... v Acknowledgement ............................................... vii Part 1 Models and Fiction ...................................... 1 1 Fictional Models in Science .................................. 3 2 The Hypothetical versus the Fictional ....................... 31 3 What Is Wrong with the New Fictionalism of Scientific Models? ..................................................... 49 4 Re-inflating the Conception of Scientific Representation .... 68 Part 2 Idealization and Approximation ......................... 95 5 Idealization, Confirmation, and Scientific Realism .......... 97 6 Laws and Models in a Theory of Idealization ................ 118 7 Approximation and Its Measures ............................. 141 8 Approximation, Idealization, and the Laws of Nature ........ 156 Part 3 Theory and Unification ................................ 185 9 Coordination of Space and Unity of Science ................. 187 10 Gauge Gravity and the Unification of Natural Forces ........ 212 11 Models and Theories II: Issues and Applications ............ 229 12 Models and Theories I: The Semantic View Revisited ......... 247 Part 4 Meaning of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking .............. 265 13 Explaining Quantum Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking ........... 267 14 Review: Symmetries in Physics: Philosophical Reflections (CUP, 2003) ................................................ 294 15 Classical Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking .................... 298 16 Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Chance in a Classical World ...................................................... 312 Part 5 Infinite Systems and Emergent Phenomena ............... 331 17 Approximations, Idealizations, and Models in Statistical Mechanics .................................................. 333 18 Infinite Systems in SM Explanations: Thermodynamic Limit, Renormalization (Semi-) Groups, and Irreversibility ........ 362 19 Explaining the Emergence of Cooperative Phenomena .......... 382 Part 6 Quantum Phenomena and Realism ......................... 397 20 A Possible Unified Understanding of Probabilistic Objects .. 399 21 Particularism and Holism Revisited ......................... 414 22 Potential, Propensity and Categorical Realism .............. 429 23 The Aharonov-Bohm Effect and the Reality of Wave Packets ... 453 Part 7 Space-Time Theories and Realism ........................ 477 24 Realism and Spacetime: Of Arguments Against Metaphysical Realism and Manifold Realism ............................... 481 25 Gauge Invariance, Cauchy Problem, Indeterminism, and Symmetry Breaking .......................................... 503 26 Is There a Relativistic Thermodynamics? A Case Study of the Meaning of Special Relativity .......................... 512