On Understanding Physics

This book attempts to illuminate and implicate the inextricably entwined nature of philosophy and physics and the importance of logic.

List of contents

Preface; 1. Discipline in philosophy; 2. Logic and psychology and physics; 3. On methods of representation; 4. The nature of mechanism; 5. The logic of substance and motion; 6. Some aspects of the symbolism of mechanics and electricity; Index.

Summary

Introducing students to the core philosophical issues surrounding modern physics and the ideas, which have shaped our current understanding of the subject, the book is based on lectures by H. W. Watson and sets out to illuminate and implicate the inextricably entwined nature of philosophy and physics and the importance of logic.

Product details

• Authors: W. H. Watson, W.h. Watson
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.02.2016
• EAN: 9781316601839
• ISBN: 978-1-316-60183-9
• No. of pages: 160
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; SCIENCE / History, PHILOSOPHY / Logic, SCIENCE / Physics / General, EDUCATION / History, History of Science, Physics, History of Education, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Philosophy: logic