Method Model And Matter

Author : M. Bunge
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 202 pages
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Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401025195

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Method, Model and Matter by M. Bunge Pdf

This collection of essays deals with three clusters of problems in the philo sophy of science: scientific method, conceptual models, and ontological underpinnings. The disjointedness of topics is more apparent than real, since the whole book is concerned with the scientific knowledge of fact. Now, the aim of factual knowledge is the conceptual grasping of being, and this understanding is provided by theories of whatever there may be. If the theories are testable and specific, such as a theory of a particular chemical reaction, then they are often called 'theoretical models' and clas sed as scientific. If the theories are extremely general, like a theory of syn thesis and dissociation without any reference to a particular kind of stuff, then they may be called 'metaphysical' - as well as 'scientific' if they are consonant with science. Between these two extremes there is a whole gamut of kinds of factual theories. Thus the entire spectrum should be dominated by the scientific method, quite irrespective of the subject matter. This is the leitmotiv of the present book. The introductory chapter, on method in the philosophy of science, tackles the question 'Why don't scientists listen to their philosophers?'.

Author : M. Bunge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1972-12-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9401025207

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Method, Model and Matter by M. Bunge Pdf

Author : Kurt Binder
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783662028551

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The Monte Carlo Method in Condensed Matter Physics by Kurt Binder Pdf

The Monte Carlo method is now widely used and commonly accepted as an important and useful tool in solid state physics and related fields. It is broadly recognized that the technique of "computer simulation" is complementary to both analytical theory and experiment, and can significantly contribute to ad vancing the understanding of various scientific problems. Widespread applications of the Monte Carlo method to various fields of the statistical mechanics of condensed matter physics have already been reviewed in two previously published books, namely Monte Carlo Methods in Statistical Physics (Topics Curro Phys. , Vol. 7, 1st edn. 1979, 2ndedn. 1986) and Applications of the Monte Carlo Method in Statistical Physics (Topics Curro Phys. , Vol. 36, 1st edn. 1984, 2nd edn. 1987). Meanwhile the field has continued its rapid growth and expansion, and applications to new fields have appeared that were not treated at all in the above two books (e. g. studies of irreversible growth phenomena, cellular automata, interfaces, and quantum problems on lattices). Also, new methodic aspects have emerged, such as aspects of efficient use of vector com puters or parallel computers, more efficient analysis of simulated systems con figurations, and methods to reduce critical slowing down at i>hase transitions. Taken together with the extensive activity in certain traditional areas of research (simulation of classical and quantum fluids, of macromolecular materials, of spin glasses and quadrupolar glasses, etc.

Author : Hilary Putnam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139241663

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Mathematics, Matter and Method: Volume 1 by Hilary Putnam Pdf

Author : Hilary Putnam
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1975-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521206650

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Mathematics, Matter and Method: Volume 1, Philosophical Papers by Hilary Putnam Pdf

Author : Hilary Putnam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1979-04-30
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0521295505

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Philosophical Papers: Volume 1, Mathematics, Matter and Method by Hilary Putnam Pdf

This volume deals with the philosophy of mathematics and of science and the nature of philosophical and scientific enquiry.

Author : Hans-Peter Eckle
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780199678839

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Models of Quantum Matter by Hans-Peter Eckle Pdf

An important task of theoretical quantum physics is the building of idealized mathematical models to describe the properties of quantum matter. This text is an introduction to the Bethe ansatz method. It introduces the physical concepts (e.g. the Fermi and Luttinger liquid and quantum phase transitions) and mathematical tools (e.g. many-particle Hilbert spaces and second quantization) needed to construct realistic models from a variety of fields of physics,especially condensed matter physics and quantum optics. The various forms of the Bethe ansatz - algebraic, coordinate, multicomponent, and thermodynamic Bethe ansatz, and Bethe ansatz for finite systems -are then explained in depth and employed to find exact solutions for the physical properties of the integrable forms of these strongly interacting quantum models.

Author : M. Cameron Hay
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780226328669

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Methods That Matter by M. Cameron Hay Pdf

To do research that really makes a difference -- the authors of this book argue -- social scientists need a diverse set of questions and methods, both qualitative and quantitative, in order to reflect the complexity of the world. Bringing together a consortium of voices across a variety of fields, Methods That Matter offers compelling and successful examples of mixed methods research that does just that. Discussing their own endeavors to combine quantitative and qualitative methodologies, the authors invite readers into a conversation about the best designs and practices of mixed methods to stimulate creative ideas and find new pathways of insight. The result is an engaging exploration of a promising approach to the social sciences. --

Author : Jacques Kriel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004494978

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Matter, Mind, and Medicine by Jacques Kriel Pdf

This book critically assesses the implications of modern medicine's claim to be a natural science. Medicine models its scientific and clinical self-understanding on an obsolete positivist conception of science, reality, and consciousness. In this view, the body is modeled as a biological machine, disease as breakdown of the machine, and therapy as physical measures to fix the machine. The problems besetting medical science and practice are rooted in the inadequacy of the positivist philosophical assumptions regarding the nature of science, reality and consciousness To base the diagnostic practices and therapeutic regimes purely on knowledge of physical processes in the human body is, in view of this analysis, at best grossly inadequate, at worst thoroughly dehumanizing (Anton van Niekerk: Editorial Foreword). This means that medicine's clinical method cannot be transformed without transforming the underlying view of science, of reality, and of the human person. The book proposes a broader model of science which overcomes the outdated dichotomy between human and natural sciences. Science is viewed as an interdisciplinary exercise generating multiple perspectives. The insights of the human sciences are essential for scientific clinical medicine. Utilizing evolutionary biology and complexity theory, the author proposes an alternative understanding of reality and human consciousness as a basis for a transformed clinical method. Reality is a hierarchy of systems of increasing complexity. Different levels can be distinguished, namely material systems, living material systems, conscious living material systems and self-conscious living material systems. Each level represents a new manner of being which requires a different scientific discourse of understanding. Using this model of reality the author argues against understanding human consciousness as a byproduct of physical processes in the brain. The human person is a self-conscious, complex, psycho-somatic system, whose well-being is conditioned by much more than physical processes.

Author : Mary Sturt
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136653452

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Matter and Method in Education by Mary Sturt Pdf

This volume discusses school practice and methods in the early twentieth century against their historical background. It covers the curriculum, time-tabling, lesson planning, exams and discipline. Each chapter ends with extensive notes and questions for discussion.

Author : L Reatto,F Manghi
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1995-12-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814499859

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Progress in Computational Physics of Matter by L Reatto,F Manghi Pdf

The aim of the book is to describe some of the recent advances, through computer simulation in a broad sense, in the understanding of the complex processes occurring in solids and liquids. The rapid growth of computer power, including the new parallel processors, has stimulated a ferment of new theoretical and computational ideas, which have been developed in particular by the authors in a pluriennal research project supported by Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) for the development of novel software for large scale computations. The book will cover advances in ab initio (Car-Parrinello) molecular dynamics, quantum monte carlo simulations, self-consistent density functional computation of electronic states, classical molecular dynamics simulation of thermodynamic processes, chemical reactions and transport properties. Besides the description of the results of these techniques in leading edge applications, the book will address specific aspects of the algorithms and software which have been developed by the authors in order to implement in an efficient way the new theoretical advances in these computationally intensive problems. These aspects which are generally not discussed in any detail in the literature, can be of great help for newcomers in the field. Contents:Ab-Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Structural Phase Transitions (P Focher & G Chiarotti)Boson Many-Body Problem: Progress in Variational Monte Carlo Computations (L Reatto)Monte Carlo Variational Theory for Fermions (M H Kalos & L Reatto)Recent Developments of Device Simulation Tools for Parallel Processing (M Saraniti & P Lugli)Simulation of Classical and Quantum Activated Processes in the Condensed Phase (G Ciccotti et al.)‘Ab- Initio” Calculations of Electronic Properties of Metallic Solid Solutions (E Bruno et al.)Ab-Initio Calculation of the Electronic (Valence and Core) and Optical Properties of Interfaces (S Ossicini & O Bisi) Readership: Condensed matter physicists, materials science researchers and chemical physicists. keywords: “This is a very good book containing some important approaches to Computational Physics in Condensed Matter. It offers readers pointed explanations on Computational Methods and its application, at the most appropriate stages.” Bulletin of Japan Physical Society

Author : David P. Landau,Kin-Keung Mon,Heinz-Bernd Schüttler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642605970

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Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed-Matter Physics IX by David P. Landau,Kin-Keung Mon,Heinz-Bernd Schüttler Pdf

Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed-Matter Physics IX covers recent developments in this field. This workshop was the ninth in this series and was held at the University of Georgia, March 4-9, 1996, and these proceedings form a record which is published with the goal of timely dissemination of the material to a wider audience. This volume is composed of three parts. The first section contains invited papers that deal with simulational studies of classical systems. The second section of the proceedings is devoted to invited papers on quantum systems, including new results for strongly correlated electron and quantum spin models. The final section comprises contributed presentations.

Author : Horatiu Nastase
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781107180383

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String Theory Methods for Condensed Matter Physics by Horatiu Nastase Pdf

The discovery of a duality between Anti-de Sitter spaces (AdS) and Conformal Field Theories (CFT) has led to major advances in our understanding of quantum field theory and quantum gravity. String theory methods and AdS/CFT correspondence maps provide new ways to think about difficult condensed matter problems. String theory methods based on the AdS/CFT correspondence allow us to transform problems so they have weak interactions and can be solved more easily. They can also help map problems to different descriptions, for instance mapping the description of a fluid using the Navier-Stokes equations to the description of an event horizon of a black hole using Einstein's equations. This textbook covers the applications of string theory methods and the mathematics of AdS/CFT to areas of condensed matter physics. Bridging the gap between string theory and condensed matter, this is a valuable textbook for students and researchers in both fields.

Author : Sumathi Rao
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780429530395

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Field Theories in Condensed Matter Physics by Sumathi Rao Pdf

The application of field theoretic techniques to problems in condensed matter physics has generated an array of concepts and mathematical techniques to attack a range of problems such as the theory of quantum phase transitions, the quantum Hall effect, and quantum wires. While concepts such as the renormalization group, topology, and bosonization h

Author : Victor D. Boantza
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317099345

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Matter and Method in the Long Chemical Revolution by Victor D. Boantza Pdf

The seventeenth-century scientific revolution and the eighteenth-century chemical revolution are rarely considered together, either in general histories of science or in more specific surveys of early modern science or chemistry. This tendency arises from the long-held view that the rise of modern physics and the emergence of modern chemistry comprise two distinct and unconnected episodes in the history of science. Although chemistry was deeply transformed during and between both revolutions, the scientific revolution is traditionally associated with the physical and mathematical sciences whereas modern chemistry is seen as the exclusive product of the chemical revolution. This historiographical tension, between similarity in ’form’ and disparity in historical ’content’ of the two events, has tainted the way we understand the rise of modern chemistry as an integral part of the advent of modern science. Against this background, Matter and Method in the Long Chemical Revolution examines the role of and effects on chemistry of both revolutions in parallel, using chemistry during the chemical revolution to illuminate chemistry during the scientific revolution, and vice versa. Focusing on the crises and conflicts of early modern chemistry (and their retrospectively labeled ’losing’ parties), the author traces patterns of continuity in matter theory and experimental method from Boyle to Lavoisier, and reevaluates the disciplinary relationships between chemists, mechanists, and Newtonians in France, England, and Scotland. Adopting a unique approach to the study of the scientific and chemical revolutions, and to early modern chemical thought and practice in particular, the author challenges the standard revolution-centered history of early modern science, and reinterprets the rise of chemistry as an independent discipline in the long eighteenth century.