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Physical Modality: Philosophical Studies Series, cartea 166

Autor Joseph Mendola
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 oct 2026
This monograph concerns nomological necessity and possibility, where such constraints of necessity are the laws of nature. It presumes that in reality, in this fundamentally physical world, these are fundamental physical laws. This text appeals to philosophers, physicists and students. Its central topic is physical possibility and necessity. The primary thesis of this book is that physical necessity and possibility are determined by a so-called 'modal structure', and indeed a modal structure that is rooted in actuality in a certain way, and so is a 'rooted modal structure'. Developing this primary thesis hence also involves developing an account of the fundamental nature of the actual physical world, which itself is constituted in entirety by a complicated form of rooted modal structure. That is the second key thesis of the text. It is developed by an exploration in historical sequence of four conceptions of fundamental physical mechanics.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783032293275
ISBN-10: 3032293278
Ilustrații: 1 illus.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Editura: Springer Verlag GmbH
Seria Philosophical Studies Series


Notă biografică

Dr. Joseph Mendola is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nebraska--Lincoln, and has also taught at the University of Rochester, North Carolina State University, the University of Oklahoma, and the University of Michigan. His previous books are Human Thought (Springer), Goodness and Justice (CUP), Anti-Externalism (OUP), Human Interests (OUP), Experience and Possibility (OUP), and The Neural Structure of Consciousness (CUP). The recent books Experience and Possibility and The Neural Structure of Consciousness are other applications of the general notion of modal structure which is applied to a new topic in this book, which returns to issues of interpretation of physics first broached in the third part of Human Thought.

Cuprins

1-Introduction.- 2-Newton's Law and Newton's Properties.- 3-Classical Electromagnetism.- 4-Newtonian Space and Time.- 5-Special Relativity.- 6-General Relativity.- 7-QM: The Theory.- 8-QM: Interpretations.- 9-QM and Modal Structure.- 10-Quantum Field Theory.- 11-Symmetry.- 12-QFT in Curved Spacetime.