The Bumpy Road: Max Planck from Radiation Theory to the Quantum (1896-1906)Springer, 6 cze 2015 - 112 This book examines the different areas of knowledge, traditions, and conceptual resources that contributed to the building of Max Planck’s theory of radiation. It presents an insightful comparative analysis that not only sheds light upon a fundamental chapter in the history of modern physics, but also enlarges our understanding of how theoreticians work. Coverage offers a deep investigation into the technical aspects behind the theory and extends in time the notion of quantum revolution. It also presents a full-fledged discussion of the combinatorial part of Planck’s theory and places emphasis on the epistemological role of mathematical practices. By painstakingly reconstructing both the electromagnetic and the combinatorial part of Planck’s black-body theory, the author shows how some apparently merely technical resources, such as the Fourier series, effectively contributed to shape the final form of Planck’s theory. For decades, historians have debated the conditions of possibility of Max Planck’s discovery as a paradigmatic example of scientific revolution. In particular, the use of combinatorics, which eventually paved the way for the introduction of the quantum hypothesis, has remained a puzzle for experts. This book presents a fresh perspective on this important debate that will appeal to historians and philosophers of science. |
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... formal logic. For this reason, Hans Reichenbach distin- guished neatly between the context of justification, which is the ambit of the logic of science, and the context of discovery (Reichenbach 1938). Ideally, for Logical Empiricism ...
... formal pinhead, we lose sight of the practice we are trying to understand.”6 Formal methods can give us only the illusion to solve all problems, by turning theories into philosophical artifacts that are worlds away from the actual ...
... formal methods of set theory . This program was effec- tively synthesized by Suppes ' slogan " to axiomatize is to define a set - theoretical pred- icate " ( Suppes 1969b ) . Set theory replaced logic of predicates , and the key concept ...
... formal attitude to the issue . However , the approach still falls short of its original goal , of bridging the gap between philosophical discussion and scientists ' actual practice . For instance , if it is true that scientists seldom ...
... formal aspects of models such as their being (1) specific and problem-oriented, (2) representational devices, and (3) mediators between theory and data. This work has required much discussion of the actual practices of scientists. Other ...
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2 The Problem of Heat Radiation | 29 |
3 Plancks Theory of Radiation | 41 |
4 Deconstructing Planck | 81 |
Index | 111 |
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The Bumpy Road: Max Planck from Radiation Theory to the Quantum (1896-1906) Massimiliano Badino Podgląd niedostępny - 2015 |
The Bumpy Road: Max Planck from Radiation Theory to the Quantum (1896-1906) Massimiliano Badino Podgląd niedostępny - 2015 |