• Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
On the Metaphysics of Experimental Physics

On the Metaphysics of Experimental Physics

Paperback

Sports GeneralHistory & Philosophy of SciencePhysics

ISBN10: 1349522929
ISBN13: 9781349522927
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: Jan 1 2005
Pages: 252
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This provocative and critical work addresses the question of why scientific realists and positivists consider experimental physics to be a natural and empirical science. Taking insights from contemporary science studies, continental philosophy, and the history of physics, this book describes and analyses the metaphysical presuppositions that underwrite the technological use of experimental apparatus and instruments to explore, model, and understand nature. By revealing this metaphysical foundation, the author questions whether experimental physics is a natural and empirical science at all.

1 different editions

Also available

Also in

Physics