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Epistemology
History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
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A Critical Translation
Although the theory which we are discussing here is applicable to all questions which concern the transfer of motion, this little work has been given the title Essay on Machines in General, first, because it is p...
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Lazare Carnot’s Manuscripts and Documents*
Lazare Carnot: 3 portraits on paper (20,5x28) cm; (19,5x27,5) cm; (25,5x34,5) cm.
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Correction to: Essay on Machines in General (1786)
In the original version of the book, the following belated corrections have been made.
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Essay on Machines in General (1786)
Text, Translations and Commentaries. Lazare Carnot’s Mechanics—Volume 1
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End Notes
Lazare Carnot uses the terms force and puissance interchangeably and without additional specification. As proposed above, we will use the modern term, force. Moment–of–Activity is one of the crucial terms in C...
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Introduction
This is the first research volume, in translation and with English commentary, of the Springer French editions of three remarkable works of Lazare Nicolas Marguérite Carnot: Essai sur les machines en general (Car...
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Problems Concerning Scientific Representation
What questions does a philosophical account of scientific representation have to answer and what conditions do these answers have to satisfy? Different authors have focussed on different issues and framed the ...
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The Similarity View
In its most basic guise, the similarity view of representation says that something represents something else by being similar to it. A photograph represents its subject matter by being similar to it; a statue ...
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The Inferential View
In this chapter we discuss accounts of scientific representation that analyse representation in terms of the inferential role that models play in scientific investigations. According to the accounts discussed ...
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Representation-As
In this chapter we discuss approaches that depart from Goodman’s notion of “representation-as”, which is based on the notion that both works of art and scientific representations represent their subject matter...
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DEKI Goes Forth
In the previous chapter we developed the DEKI account of epistemic representation against the backdrop of a material carrier. We begin this chapter by exploring how it applies to carriers that are non-material...
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General Griceanism and Stipulative Fiat
General Griceanism is the radical proposal that all types of representation can be explained in a unified way as deriving from a more fundamental kind of representations, namely mental states. The view thus ho...
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The Structuralist View
The structuralist view of scientific representation originated in the so-called semantic view of theories, which came to prominence in the second half of the twentieth century. Many defenders of the semantic v...
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The Fiction View of Models
Scientific modelling involves a creative act of the imagination. This, and the fact that at least parts of the content of what is imagined deviates from reality, motivates a family of approaches that analyse m...
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The DEKI Account
We now address the issues faced by Representation-As and develop it into a full-fledged account of epistemic representation. The result of this endeavour is what we call the DEKI account, where the acronym is ...
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Some Quantum Mechanics, Its Problems, and How Not to Think About Them
QM is notoriously associated with a certain ‘strangeness’ or ‘weirdness’ (e.g. Rosenblum and Kuttner 2011, p. 4; Davies 2004, p. 11) which stems, in the first place, from the divergence of the phenomena that i...
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Just a Matter of Knowledge?
There is, it seems, a rather natural response to the conceptual problems raised by QM. This response, put frankly, is to say that ‘it’s all just epistemic!’ More precisely this would mean to deprive the quantu...
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ψ-Ontology, or, Making Sense of Quantum Mechanics
In Chap. 2, we located the importance of de Broglie’s research for the development of QM in his speculating about matter waves, and hence in his indirect contribut...
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Introduction
Why should one philosophize about quantum mechanics (QM)? What does it mean to interpret it? The present chapter exposes, on a preliminary level, the fundamental problems with interpreting QM and introduces so...
