Accelerating Expansion: Philosophy and Physics with a Positive Cosmological Constant
Autor Gordon Beloten Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 aug 2023
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780192866462
ISBN-10: 019286646X
Pagini: 242
Dimensiuni: 145 x 223 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 019286646X
Pagini: 242
Dimensiuni: 145 x 223 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Recenzii
The book arrives at discussions of "no-hair" theorems, links to quantum mechanics, and Boltzmann brains. The references are extensive, and the book is accessible to advanced undergraduates and graduate students. Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals.
Accelerating Expansion shows that taking de Sitter spacetime seriously generates remarkably interesting foundational questions that have been central to active discussions in mathematical physics. It introduces philosophers to some of the mathematical infrastructure designed to apply general relativity that has been developed over the last fifty years, in part through considering a case where it breaks break down.
In any case, none of this should detract from the fact that Belot's book will surely become the go-to resource, both for philosophers of physics and (ideally) philosophically-minded physicists, on all things de Sitter. We very much hope that the book will promulgate an expanding research programme in the philosophy of physics, and we look forward to seeing its fruits in the years to come.
Accelerating Expansion shows that taking de Sitter spacetime seriously generates remarkably interesting foundational questions that have been central to active discussions in mathematical physics. It introduces philosophers to some of the mathematical infrastructure designed to apply general relativity that has been developed over the last fifty years, in part through considering a case where it breaks break down.
In any case, none of this should detract from the fact that Belot's book will surely become the go-to resource, both for philosophers of physics and (ideally) philosophically-minded physicists, on all things de Sitter. We very much hope that the book will promulgate an expanding research programme in the philosophy of physics, and we look forward to seeing its fruits in the years to come.
Notă biografică
Gordon Belot studied at the University of Toronto, Cambridge University, and the University of Pittsburgh. He has taught at Princeton University, New York University, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Michigan, where he is currently the Lawrence Sklar Collegiate Professor of Philosophy. His book Geometric Possibility won the Lakatos Award. He has held fellowships from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the National Science Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.