What are the phenomena of physics?
Depending on different positions in the debate on scientific realism, there are various accounts of the phenomena of physics. For scientific realists like Bogen and Woodward, phenomena are matters of fact in nature, i.e., the effects explained and predicted by physical theories. For empiricists like...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 182; no. 1; pp. 149 - 164 |
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