The Philosophical Impact of Contemporary Physics

Download or read book The Philosophical Impact of Contemporary Physics written by Milič Čapek and published by Princeton, N.J. : Van Nostrand. This book was released on 1961 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The general character of classical physics - The concept of time - The concept of matter - The concept of motion - The main features of the corpuscular-kinetic view of nature - Some collateral trends : dynamism, energetism, fluid theories - The implicit elimination of time in classical physics - The negation of instantaneous space - The modification of the concept of time - The evolution of the concept of matter - The end of the laplacian illusion - The reinstatement of becoming in the physical world.