The ultimate constituents of the material world : in search of an ontology for fundamental physics

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The ultimate constituents of the material world : in search of an ontology for fundamental physics

Meinard Kuhlmann

(Philosophische Analyse = Philosophical analysis / herausgegeben von Herbert Hochberg ... [et al.], Bd. 37)

Ontos, 2010

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Bibliography: p. 241-257

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内容説明

Today, quantum field theory (QFT) - the mathematical and conceptual framework for contemporary elementary particle physics - is the best starting point for analysing the fundamental building blocks of the material world. QFT if taken seriously in its metaphysical implications yields a picture of the world that is at variance with central classical conceptions. The core of Kuhlmann's investigation consists in the analysis of various ontological interpretations of QFT (eg: substance ontologies as well as a process-ontological approach). Eventually, Kuhlmann proposes a dispositional trope ontology, according to which particularised properties and not things are the most basic entities, in terms of which all other entities are to be analysed (eg: as bundles of properties). This book was chosen for the 2009 Ontos-Award for research on analytical ontology and metaphysics by the German Society for Analytical Philosophy.

目次

  • Part I: Ontology & Quantum Field Theory
  • Part II: Classical Ontologies
  • Part III: Revisionary Ontologies
  • Part IV: The Trope Bundle Interpretation
  • Part V: Concluding Remarks
  • Part VI: Appendices.

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