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Author Frisch, Mathias

Title Inconsistency, Asymmetry, and Non-Locality
Published Cary : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (223 pages)
Contents ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Chapter 1: Introduction: Theories and Models""; ""Part One: Particles""; ""Chapter 2: Inconsistency""; ""Chapter 3: In Search of Coherence""; ""Chapter 4: Non-Locality""; ""Part Two: Fields""; ""Chapter 5: The Arrow of Radiation""; ""Chapter 6: Absorber and Entropy Theories of Radiation""; ""Chapter 7: The Retardation Condition""; ""Chapter 8: David Lewis on Waves and Counterfactuals""; ""Chapter 9: Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""
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Summary Electrodynamics has largely been ignored by philosophers of science due to what Frisch says is a mistaken view that it is conceptually unproblematic. Part of the goal of this book is to show that classical physics, while successful in describing phenomena, has some very interesting conceptual problems worth discussing
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Subject Electrodynamics -- Philosophy
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780198038429
0198038429