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La 4e de couverture indique : "La physique est une oeuvre de l'esprit dont les pensées vont d'étonnements en émerveillements. Elle traverse les époques au gré des sensations et des imaginations car elle a entrepris depuis son commencement rien moins que de rendre compte de la nature. En cherchant à donner une idée "universelle" de la nature, la physique a petit à petit épousé la mathématique et c'est la raison pour laquelle on ne parle plus aujourd'hui que de physique mathématique. Mais sur quels éléments de pensée repose cette physique moderne ? C'est ce cheminement tout à la fois intellectuel et mental que les Méditations sur la physique souhaitent retracer, en s'appuyant sur l'étude de douze extraits d'oeuvres de savants et philosophes. Depuis le travail d'abstraction, qui constitue le premier mouvement, jusqu'à l'établissement d'une théorie, qui en est l'achèvement, cette anthologie entreprend de suivre la voie que, peu ou prou, tout physicien est amené à prendre pour avancer vers une connaissance de la nature. Cet ouvrage n'est donc pas un ouvrage de physique, mais sur la physique en tant qu'oeuvre de l'esprit. C'est une analyse du travail ainsi que des concepts que le physicien se donne pour entreprendre de saisir sinon la nature, du moins les phénomènes qui l'entourent."

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This Oxford Handbook provides an overview of many of the topics that currently engage philosophers of physics. It surveys new issues and the problems that have become a focus of attention in recent years. It also provides up-to-date discussions of the still very important problems that dominated the field in the past. In the late 20th Century, the philosophy of physics was largely focused on orthodox Quantum Mechanics and Relativity Theory. The measurement problem, the question of the possibility of hidden variables, and the nature of quantum locality dominated the literature on the quantum mechanics, whereas questions about relationalism vs. substantivalism, and issues about underdetermination of theories dominated the literature on spacetime. These issues still receive considerable attention from philosophers, but many have shifted their attentions to other questions related to quantum mechanics and to spacetime theories. Quantum field theory has become a major focus, particularly from the point of view of algebraic foundations. Concurrent with these trends, there has been a focus on understanding gauge invariance and symmetries. The philosophy of physics has evolved even further in recent years with attention being paid to theories that, for the most part, were largely ignored in the past. For example, the relationship between thermodynamics and statistical mechanics---once thought to be a paradigm instance of unproblematic theory reduction---is now a hotly debated topic. The implicit, and sometimes explicit, reductionist methodology of both philosophers and physicists has been severely criticized and attention has now turned to the explanatory and descriptive roles of "non-fundamental,'' phenomenological theories. This shift of attention includes "old'' theories such as classical mechanics, once deemed to be of little philosophical interest. Furthermore, some philosophers have become more interested in "less fundamental'' contemporary physics such as condensed matter theory. Questions abound with implications for the nature of models, idealizations, and explanation in physics. This Handbook showcases all these aspects of this complex and dynamic discipline.

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