The Comprehensibility of the Universe
A New Conception of Science
Résumé
'This is not a book to read quickly or easily, but I
hope that many may make the effort, because it seems to me
to be an important contribution to the philosophy of
physics.'
-British Journal for the Philosophy of Science ·
'Maxwell performs a heroic feat in making the physics
accessible to the non-physicist ... Philosophically, there
is much here to stimulate and provoke ... those who share
Maxwell's intuitions about progress, even those uncommitted
to "theories of everything", will find encouragement here
for thinking about how one does justice to such a
possibility.'
-Anjan Chakravartty, THES ·
'This admirably ambitious book contains more
thought-provoking material than can even be mentioned here.
Maxwell's treatment of the descriptive problem of
simplicity, and his novel proposals about quantum mechanics
deserve special note.'
-The Philosophical Review
The Comprehensibility of the Universe puts forward a radically new conception of science. Nicholas Maxwell argues that the prevailing view of the relation between scientific theory and evidence is untenable; he calls for a new orthodoxy which sees science as making a hierarchy of assumptions about the comprehensibility of the universe. This new conception has significant implications for both philosophy and science, and promises to heal the rift between the two.
Readership: Scholars and graduate students of philosophy of science and epistemology; scientists and historians of science interested in the philosophical foundations of their subject.
Contents
- A New Conception of Science
- The Failings of Standard Empiricism
- Comprehensibility
- Simplicity
- Induction
- Evidence, Progress, and Discovery
- Quantum Theory
- Mathematical and Physical Appendix
- Index
L'auteur - Nicholas Maxwell
Nicholas Maxwell, Emeritus Reader in Philosophy of
Science, University of London
Caractéristiques techniques
| PAPIER | |
| Éditeur(s) | Oxford University Press |
| Auteur(s) | Nicholas Maxwell |
| Parution | 01/01/1998 |
| Nb. de pages | 324 |
| Format | 15,5 x 23,2 |
| Couverture | Broché |
| Poids | 459g |
| Intérieur | Noir et Blanc |
| EAN13 | 9780199261550 |
| ISBN13 | 978-0-19-926155-0 |
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