The present book elicits the reasons for the second scientific revolution. According to Chapter 1, one has to abandon the 'great genius' approach in favor of mundane Heidegger's existential analytic with Dasein as "a way of life shared by the members of scientific community". Scientific revolutions should be considered as clashes of diverse "mathematical projections of nature" consisting of bundles of practices. In Chapter 2, it is revealed that Quantum and the Relativistic revolutions had a common origin - a skirmish between the Newtonian mechanics, Maxwellian electrodynamics, Boltzmann's statistical mechanics and Thomson's thermodynamics. The skirmish was disclosed by Planck who stressed that the paradigms "must be modified to remain compatible". Planck took the first step, while Einstein took the next ones owing to light quanta and special relativity. According to Chapter 3, general relativity was better than its rivals for the reason that it encompassed them all.
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Newcastle upon Tyne
Großbritannien
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Höhe: 212 mm
Breite: 148 mm
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978-1-0364-4703-8 (9781036447038)
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Rinat M. Nugayev is a Doctor of Philosophy and Full Professor at the Department of Humanities of the Volga Region, Kazan University of Physical Culture, Sport and Tourism. He is a specialist in history and philosophy of physics, philosophy and sociology of science, and black holes physics. He graduated in physics (general relativity) from Kazan State University, Russia, studied relativistic astrophysics at the Moscow Institute of Space Research, Russia, and received graduate degrees in philosophy of science from Moscow State University and the Moscow Institute of Philosophy (Russian Academy of Science). He has received the Title of Honoured Scientist of the Republic of Tatarstan (2003). In 1994-2002 he was awarded President Yeltzin's personal stipend as "an outstanding scientist of Russia". He has published more than 50 SCOPUS and WoS papers and 12 monographs.
