Particles and Waves: Historical Essays in the Philosophy of Science

by Peter Achinstein

Book Overview

This volume brings together eleven essays by the distinguished philosopher of science, Peter Achinstein. The unifying theme is the nature of the philosophical problems surrounding the postulation of unobservable entities such as light waves, molecules, and electrons. How, if at all, is it possible to confirm scientific hypotheses about "unobservables"? Achinstein examines this question as it arose in actual scientific practice in three nineteenth-century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019506755X
• ISBN13: 9780195067552
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"