Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics and Cosmology

Mario Bunge

of Epistemology III.- 1. The Chasm between S&T and the Humanities.- 2. Bridging the Chasm.- 3. Towards a Useful PS&T.- 4. Concluding Remarks.- 1. Formal Science: From Logic to Mathematics.- 1. Generalities.- 1.1 Two Main Types of Research Field.- 1.2 Some Peculiarities of Mathematics.- 2. Mathematics and Reality.- 2.1 Conceptual Existence.- 2.2 Mathematics and Reality.- 3. Logic.- 3.1 Logic Lato Sensu.- 3.2 Non-standard Logics.- 4. Pure and Applied Mathematics.- 4.1 Applications of Mathematics.- 4.2 An Example: Probability.- 5. Foundations and Philosophy.- 5.1 Foundations of Mathematics.- 5.2 Philosophies of Mathematics.- 6. Concluding Remarks.- 2. Physical Science: From Physics to Earth Science.- 1. Preliminaries.- 1.1 Physical Quantity, Convention, Measurement.- 1.2 Theory, Metatheory, Protophysics.- 2. Two Classics.- 2.1 Classical Mechanics.- 2.2 Statistical Mechanics.- 3. Two Relativities.- 3.1 Special Relativity.- 3.2 General Relativity.- 4. Quantons.- 4.1 Classons and Quantons.- 4.2 The State Function and its Referents.- 5. Chance.- 5.1 Probability.- 5.2 Double Slit and Double Logic.- 6. Realism and Classicism.- 6.1 Measurement and Projection.- 6.2 Hidden Variables, Separability, and Realism.- 7. Chemistry.- 7.1 Philosophy and Chemistry.- 7.2 Is Chemistry Reducible to Physics?.- 8. Megaphysics.- 8.1 Earth Sciences.- 8.2 Cosmology.- 9. Concluding Remarks.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.

Dennis Dieks

Mendel Sachs

On quantum randomness what is light? relativity and the twin paradox on quantum fields, unified field theory and the meaning of science positivism, realism and holism in relativity and quantum physics on cosmology - relativity versus quantum physics mathematics to physics to philosophy the search for truth in science - Einstein versus Bohr.

Luka Boršić, Ivana Skuhala Karasman, Franjo Sokolić