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050	0	0	_aQC794.6.G7 _bM67 2000
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100	1		_aMorrison, Margaret, _d1954- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aUnifying scientific theories : _bphysical concepts and mathematical structures / _cMargaret Morrison.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2000.
300			_a1 online resource (viii, 272 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
505	0	0	_g1. _tThe Many Faces of Unity. _g1.1. _tKepler: Unity as Mathematical Metaphysics. _g1.2. _tKant: Unity as a Heuristic and Logical Principle. _g1.3. _tWhewell: Unity as Consilience and Certainty. _g1.4. _tLogical Empiricism: Unity as Method and Integration. _g1.5. _tUnity as Explanation -- _g2. _tUnification, Realism and Inference. _g2.1. _tThe Friedman Model. _g2.2. _tThe Importance of Conjunction. _g2.3. _tReduction versus Representation. _g2.4. _tConsilience and Unification. _g2.5. _tUnification as an Evidential or Epistemic Virtue. _gAppendix. _tDerivation of the van der Waals Law: Historical Details -- _g3. _tMaxwell's Unification of Electromagnetism and Optics. _g3.1. _tDevelopment of Electromagnetic Theory: The Early Stages.
520			_aThis 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	_aUnified field theories.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521652162
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511527333
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