| Cassirer's Structural Realism Contributor(s): Ibongu, Georges (Author), Mockel, Christian (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 3832529128 ISBN-13: 9783832529123 Publisher: Logos Verlag Berlin OUR PRICE: $47.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy |
| LCCN: 2012355072 |
| Series: Phanomenologie in Der Naturwissenschaft |
| Physical Information: 130 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this book Georges Ibongu shows that Ernst Cassirer adopts a sort of structural realism in his writings on physics. Cassirer does not deny the existence of physical entities. For him, however, a physical entity loses its absolute fixity and is involved in the process of physical knowledge. The electron is a definite object but cannot, as an individual, be designated by being here and now. The individuality of simple particles means, for Cassirer, that they are only describable as points of intersection of definite relations or structures. |
