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essays on symmetry (spatiotemporal structure, structure of theories, scientific realism, pierre curie). [microform]
essays on symmetry (spatiotemporal structure, structure of theories, scientific realism, pierre curie). [microform]
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- essays on symmetry (spatiotemporal structure, structure of theories, scientific realism, pierre curie). - [microform]
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- 236 p. : microfiches ; 11×15 cm.
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- UMI Dissertation
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- Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-10, Section: A, page: 4398.
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- thesis (ph.d.)-- - princeton university, 1997.
- 초록/해제
- 요약Structures of many different sorts arise in physics, e.g., the concrete structures of material bodies, the structure exemplified by the spatiotemporal configuration of a set of bodies, the structures of more abstract objects like states, state-spaces, laws, and so on. To each structure of any of these types there corresponds a set of transformations which map it onto itself. These are its symmetries. Increasingly ubiquitous in theoretical discussions in physics, the notion of symmetry is also at the root of some time-worn philosophical debates. This dissertation consists of a set of essays on topics drawn from places where the two fields overlap.
- 초록/해제
- 요약The first essay is an informal introduction to the mathematical study of symmetry. The second essay defends a famous principle of Pierre Curie which states that the symmetries of a cause are always symmetries of its effect. The third essay takes up the case of reflection in space in the context of a controversy stemming from one of Kant's early arguments for the substantivality of space. The fourth essay is a discussion of the general conditions under which an asymmetry in a phenomenon suggests an asymmetry in the laws which govern it. The case of reflection in time--specifically, the theoretical strategy used in statistical mechanics to subsume the time-asymmetric phenomena of Thermodynamics under the time-symmetric classical dynamical laws--is used to illustrate the general points. The philosophical heart of the thesis lies in its fifth essay. Here a somewhat novel way of conceiving scientific theorizing is articulated, one suggested by the abstract mathematical perspective of symmetry.
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- Dissertation Abstracts International. 57-10A.
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