Unifying scientific theories : (Record no. 522410)
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| control field | UkCbUP |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780511527333 (ebook) |
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| Cancelled/invalid ISBN | 9780521652162 (hardback) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| Cancelled/invalid ISBN | 9780521037600 (paperback) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | UkCbUP |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Description conventions | rda |
| Transcribing agency | UkCbUP |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | QC794.6.G7 |
| Item number | M67 2000 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 530.14/2 |
| Edition number | 21 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Morrison, Margaret, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1954- |
| Relator term | author. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Unifying scientific theories : |
| Remainder of title | physical concepts and mathematical structures / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Margaret Morrison. |
| 264 #1 - Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice (R) | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture (R) | Cambridge : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer (R) | Cambridge University Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2000. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (viii, 272 pages) : |
| Other physical details | digital, PDF file(s). |
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| Content type term (R) | text |
| Content type code (R) | txt |
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| Media type term (R) | computer |
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| Carrier type term (R) | online resource |
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| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
| 505 00 - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Miscellaneous information | 1. |
| Title | The Many Faces of Unity. |
| Miscellaneous information | 1.1. |
| Title | Kepler: Unity as Mathematical Metaphysics. |
| Miscellaneous information | 1.2. |
| Title | Kant: Unity as a Heuristic and Logical Principle. |
| Miscellaneous information | 1.3. |
| Title | Whewell: Unity as Consilience and Certainty. |
| Miscellaneous information | 1.4. |
| Title | Logical Empiricism: Unity as Method and Integration. |
| Miscellaneous information | 1.5. |
| Title | Unity as Explanation -- |
| Miscellaneous information | 2. |
| Title | Unification, Realism and Inference. |
| Miscellaneous information | 2.1. |
| Title | The Friedman Model. |
| Miscellaneous information | 2.2. |
| Title | The Importance of Conjunction. |
| Miscellaneous information | 2.3. |
| Title | Reduction versus Representation. |
| Miscellaneous information | 2.4. |
| Title | Consilience and Unification. |
| Miscellaneous information | 2.5. |
| Title | Unification as an Evidential or Epistemic Virtue. |
| Miscellaneous information | Appendix. |
| Title | Derivation of the van der Waals Law: Historical Details -- |
| Miscellaneous information | 3. |
| Title | Maxwell's Unification of Electromagnetism and Optics. |
| Miscellaneous information | 3.1. |
| Title | Development of Electromagnetic Theory: The Early Stages. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | 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. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Unified field theories. |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Display text | Print version: |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780521652162 |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511527333">https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511527333</a> |
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