Laws, Symmetry, and Symmetry Breaking: Invariance, Conservation Principles, and Objectivity-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Laws, Symmetry, and Symmetry Breaking: Invariance, Conservation Principles, and Objectivity

Published:2004-12 Issue:5 Volume:71 Page:1227-1241
ISSN:0031-8248
Container-title:Philosophy of Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Philos. of Sci.

Author:

Earman John

Abstract

Given its importance in modern physics, philosophers of science have paid surprisingly little attention to the subject of symmetries and invariances, and they have largely neglected the subtopic of symmetry breaking. I illustrate how the topic of laws and symmetries brings into fruitful interaction technical issues in physics and mathematics with both methodological issues in philosophy of science, such as the status of laws of physics, and metaphysical issues, such as the nature of objectivity.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Subject

History and Philosophy of Science,Philosophy,History

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