The role of symmetry in the interpretation of physical theories

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2015.08.002zbMATH Open1329.70048OpenAlexW1962198334MaRDI QIDQ905657FDOQ905657

Adam Caulton

Publication date: 27 January 2016

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/11571/1/SymIntPhysThJul2015.pdf

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zbMATH Keywords

symmetryinterpretationconventionconstitutive a prioriReichenbach

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Physics (00A79) Symmetries and conservation laws, reverse symmetries, invariant manifolds and their bifurcations, reduction for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H33) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05)

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