Unifying Scientific Theories : Physical Concepts and Mathematical Structures
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0521037603
ISBN-13
9780521037600
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 27th, 2007
Print length
284 Pages
Weight
430 grams
Dimensions
15.40 x 22.70 x 2.30 cms
Product Classification:
Philosophy of science
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This book is about the methods used for unifying different scientific theories under one all-embracing theory. The book emphasizes the importance of mathematical structures in unification, and claims that despite this common feature theory unification is a multi-faceted process for which no general account can be offered.
This book is about the methods used for unifying different scientific theories under one all-embracing theory. The process has characterized much of the history of science and is prominent in contemporary physics; the search for a 'theory of everything' involves the same attempt at unification. Margaret Morrison argues that, contrary to popular philosophical views, unification and explanation often have little to do with each other. The mechanisms that facilitate unification are not those that enable us to explain how or why phenomena behave as they do. A feature of this book is an account of many case studies of theory unification in nineteenth- and twentieth-century physics and of how evolution by natural selection and Mendelian genetics were unified into what we now term evolutionary genetics.
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