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The Ultimate Constituents of the Material World: In Search of an Ontology for Fundamental Physics: 37 (Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis) - Softcover
Today, quantum field theory (QFT) - the mathematical and conceptual framework for contemporary elementary particle physics - is the best starting point for analysing the fundamental building blocks of the material world. QFT if taken seriously in its metaphysical implications yields a picture of the world that is at variance with central classical conceptions. The core of Kuhlmann's investigation consists in the analysis of various ontological interpretations of QFT, e.g. substance ontologies as well as a process-ontological approach. Eventually, Kuhlmann proposes a dispositional trope ontology, according to which particularized properties and not things are the most basic entities, in terms of which all other entities are to be analysed, e.g as bundles of properties. This book was chosen for the 2009 ontos-Award for research on analytical ontology and metaphysics by the German Society for Analytical Philosophy.
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- PublisherWalter de Gruyter & Co
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 3110326132
- ISBN 13 9783110326130
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages274
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