`Physics is a kind of metaphysics': Émile Meyerson and Einstein's late rationalistic realism

DOI10.1007/S13194-018-0211-YzbMATH Open1428.01022OpenAlexW2851442207MaRDI QIDQ2289714FDOQ2289714

Publication date: 24 January 2020

Published in: European Journal for Philosophy of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2318/1737372

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum mechanics general relativity unified field theories realism Einstein's philosophy of science rationalism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) History of relativity and gravitational theory (83-03)

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