Symmetries in Physics: Philosophical Reflections

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New York: Cambridge University Press (2002)
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Highlighting main issues and controversies, this book brings together current philosophical discussions of symmetry in physics to provide an introduction to the subject for physicists and philosophers. The contributors cover all the fundamental symmetries of modern physics, such as CPT and permutation symmetry, as well as discussing symmetry-breaking and general interpretational issues. Classic texts are followed by new review articles and shorter commentaries for each topic. Suitable for courses on the foundations of physics, philosophy of physics and philosophy of science, the volume is a valuable reference for students and researchers.

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QC174.17.S9.S984 2003

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0521528895   9780521821377   0521821371   9780521528894
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Chapters

Notes on symmetries.Gordon Belot
Symmetries and Noether's theorems.Katherine Bracing & Harvey R. Brown
Symmetry and equivalence.Elena Castellani
Classic texts: extracts from Curie and Weyl.Pierre Curie
Tracking down gauge: An ode to the constrained Hamiltonian formalism.John Earman
Understanding permutation symmetry.Steven French & Dean Rickles
Mirror symmetry: What is it for relational space to be orientable?Nick Huggett
Symmetry as a guide to superfluous theoretical structure.Jenann Ismael & Bas C. van~Fraassen
Symmetry, objectivity, and design.Peter Kosso
Classic texts: Extracts from Leibniz, Kant, and Black.Katherine A. Brading & Elena Castellani
On continuous symmetries and the foundations of modern physics.Christopher Martin
General covariance, gauge theories and the kretschmann objection.John D. Norton
A fourth way to the Aharonov-Bohm effect.Antigone M. Nounou
Handedness, parity violation, and the reality of space.Oliver Pooley
The interpretation of gauge symmetry.Michael Redhead
Physics and Leibniz's principles.Simon Saunders
Time-dependent symmetries: the link between gauge symmetries and indeterminism.David Wallace
Classic texts: extracts from Weyl and Wigner.Hermann Weyl
Classic texts: extracts from Wigner.Eugene P. Wigner

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Elena Castellani
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Tracking down gauge: An ode to the constrained Hamiltonian formalism.John Earman - 2003 - In Katherine Brading & Elena Castellani (eds.), Symmetries in Physics: Philosophical Reflections. Cambridge University Press. pp. 140--62.

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