Reform of the International System of Units (Si) Philosophical, Historical and Sociological Issues

Sommario

1. Introduction; 2. The origins of the Metre Convention, the SI and the development of modern metrology; 3. Justifying and motivating an SI for all people for all time; 4. Reforming the International System of Units: On our way to redefine the base units solely from fundamental constants and beyond; 5. Strategies for the definition of a system of units; 6. Relations between units and relations between quantities; 7. On the Conceptual Nature of the Physical Constants; 8. And how experiments Begin: The International Prototype Kilogram and the Planck Constant; 9. The SI and the Problem of Spatiotemporal Constancy

Info autore

Nadine de Courtenay is Associate Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the Paris Diderot University & Laboratoire SPHERE, France.

Olivier Darrigol is Research Director at CNRS & Laboratoire SPHERE, France.

Oliver Schlaudt is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Science at Heidelberg University, Germany.

Riassunto

Systems of units still fail to attract the philosophical attention they deserve but this could change with the current reform of the International System of Units. This book invites a philosophical inquiry that promises to overcome the tensions that have long obstructed science studies.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Nadine De Courtenay (Editore), Olivier Darrigol (Editore), Oliver Schlaudt (Editore), Darrigol Olivier (Editore), Schlaudt Oliver (Editore)
• Autori: Nadine Darrigol De Courtenay, Nadine (University of Paris 7 Didero De Courtenay
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 30.09.2020
• Categoria: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Matematica > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie
• EAN: 9780367662608
• ISBN: 978-0-367-66260-8
• Numero di pagine: 212
• Serie: History and Philosophy of Technoscience
• Categorie: HISTORY / General, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, Philosophy of Science, History of Science, Philosophy of Mathematics, Scientific standards, measurement etc, Mensuration & Systems Of Measurement, metrology, Experimental Physics, scientific instrumentation, physical constants, philosophy of measurement, measurement standards, redefining SI units with constants