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Kant’s Cosmology

From the Pre-Critical System to the Antinomy of Pure Reason

By: Brigitte Falkenburg

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Kant’s Cosmology

From the Pre-Critical System to the Antinomy of Pure Reason

By: Brigitte Falkenburg

This book provides a comprehensive account of Kant’s development from the 1755/56 metaphysics to the cosmological antinomy of 1781. With the Theory of the Heavens (1755) and the Physical Monadology (1756), the young Kant had presented an ambitious approach to physical cosmology based on an atomistic theory of matter, which contributed to the foundations of an all-encompassing system of metaphysics. Why did he abandon this system in favor of his critical view that cosmology runs into an antinomy, according to the Critique of Pure Reason (CPR)? This book answers this question by focusing on Kant’s methodology and the internal problems of his 1755/56 theory of nature. A decisive role for Kant’s critical turn plays the argument from incongruent counterparts (1768), which drew much attention among philosophers of science, though not sufficiently in Kant research. Furthermore, the book analyses the genesis of the cosmological antinomy in the 1770s, the logical structure of the antinomy in the CPR, its relation to transcendental idealism, as explained in the “experiment of pure reason” (1787), and its role for the teleology of human reason. The book is addressed to Kant scholars, philosophers of science, and students of Kant’s philosophy.

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Springer Nature

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ISBN 10

3030522903

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9783030522902

Particle Metaphysics

A Critical Account of Subatomic Reality

By: Brigitte Falkenburg

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Particle Metaphysics

A Critical Account of Subatomic Reality

By: Brigitte Falkenburg

Are the particles of modern physics "real" or are they virtual entities, their existence deduced merely by abstract theories? This book examines the continuing debate regarding the inner constitution of matter by exploring the particle concept in physics. It investigates if the particles of particle physics are real or not. Readers interested in the "true meaning" of such physical concepts will find this book informative and thought provoking.

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393

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540337326

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9783540337324

The Navy in Norco

By: Kevin Bash,Brigitte Jouxtel

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The Navy in Norco

By: Kevin Bash,Brigitte Jouxtel

On December 8, 1941, sixty miles from the ocean, the US Navy rolled into Norco. There, on the grounds of the former Norconian Resort, the federal government built what may have been the finest and most complete World War II naval hospital in the nation. The first patients to arrive were those wounded during the attack on Pearl Harbor; they were cared for in luxurious rooms once reserved for movie stars. By 1945, approximately 5,000 sailors and Marines were being treated. In 1951, the smartest physicists, engineers, and mathematicians in the world set up laboratories in the hospital's tubercular wards and entered into the Cold War. Today the hospital is gone, but the magnificent buildings and top secret naval laboratory remain, along with thousands of photographs of one of the most historic and colorful sites in America.

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130

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738575267

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9780738575261

From Ultra Rays to Astroparticles

A Historical Introduction to Astroparticle Physics

By: Brigitte Falkenburg,Wolfgang Rhode

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From Ultra Rays to Astroparticles

A Historical Introduction to Astroparticle Physics

By: Brigitte Falkenburg,Wolfgang Rhode

The scope of the book is to give an overview of the history of astroparticle physics, starting with the discovery of cosmic rays (Victor Hess, 1912) and its background (X-ray, radioactivity). The book focusses on the ways in which physics changes in the course of this history. The following changes run parallel, overlap, and/or interact: - Discovery of effects like X-rays, radioactivity, cosmic rays, new particles but also progress through non-discoveries (monopoles) etc. - The change of the description of nature in physics, as consequence of new theoretical questions at the beginning of the 20th century, giving rise to quantum physics, relativity, etc. - The change of experimental methods, cooperations, disciplinary divisions. With regard to the latter change, a main topic of the book is to make the specific multi-diciplinary features of astroparticle physics clear.

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345

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9400754221

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9789400754225

Particle Metaphysics

A Critical Account of Subatomic Reality

By: Brigitte Falkenburg

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A Critical Account of Subatomic Reality

By: Brigitte Falkenburg

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3540337318

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9783540337317

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Kant’s Cosmology

Kant’s Cosmology

Particle Metaphysics

Particle Metaphysics

The Navy in Norco

The Navy in Norco

From Ultra Rays to Astroparticles

From Ultra Rays to Astroparticles

Particle Metaphysics

Particle Metaphysics

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