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Vor 4 Tagen · Writing in his book The Physicist's Conception of Nature, Heisenberg argued that ultimately we only can speak of the knowledge (numbers in tables) which describe something about particles but we can never have any "true" access to the particles themselves:
23. Apr. 2024 · The “Quaestiones” reveal that Newton had discovered the new conception of nature that provided the framework of the Scientific Revolution. He had thoroughly mastered the works of Descartes and had also discovered that the French philosopher Pierre Gassendi had revived atomism, an alternative mechanical system to explain nature ...
23. Apr. 2024 · Werner Heisenberg, German physicist and philosopher who discovered (1925) a way to formulate quantum mechanics in terms of matrices. For that discovery, he was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize for Physics. In 1927 he published his uncertainty principle, upon which he built his philosophy and for which he is best known.
21. Apr. 2024 · How Physicists Mislead the Public (And Themselves) Daniel Athearn. Apr 21, 2024. In the previous installment I mentioned Herbert Dingle's criticism of physicists for presenting what they call their “theories” as if they describe “external nature,” that is, describe physical states of affairs or goings-on that explain ...
Vor 2 Tagen · Nature Reviews Physics - Doing physics and being a physicist is shaped by complex social factors. This month, we launch a Collection to explore the social and historical context of physics research.
Vor einem Tag · Abstract. This chapter deals with the basic outlines of Schelling’s conception of living nature. It had a profound influence on the development of biology, particulary in Germany, and many of its parts are highly inspirational to this day. The first part presents Schelling’s general approach to explaining phenomena from living nature.
Vor einem Tag · Physicists formulate specific laws of nature, like laws of gravitation and thermodynamics, to describe how physical systems behave under various conditions. Metaphysicians, by contrast, ask what all laws of nature have in common, for example, whether they merely describe contingent regularities or express necessary relations. [121]
