The Philosophy and Physics of Duality by de Haro, Sebastian

The Philosophy and Physics of Duality (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198846338)

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The Philosophy and Physics of Duality by de Haro, Sebastian

The Philosophy and Physics of Duality

$175.00
The Philosophy and Physics of Duality by de Haro, Sebastian

The Philosophy and Physics of Duality

$175.00
Format: Hardcover
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The Philosophy and Physics of Duality discusses what dualities are and the philosophical questions that they raise. This book also examines the main examples of duality-from quantum mechanics and electrodynamics to statistical mechanics, quantum field theory, and string theory.

Part I conceptualizes dualities and discusses their main roles and themes, including how they are related to familiar notions like symmetry and interpretation. It then goes through the main simple examples of dualities: position-momentum, wave-particle, electric-magnetic, and Kramers-Wannier dualities. Part II discusses advanced examples and their inter-relations: particle-soliton dualities, electric-magnetic dualities in quantum field theories, dualities in string theory, and gauge-gravity duality. Part III offers an in-depth exploration of the general philosophical issues onto which dualities bear: theoretical equivalence, scientific realism and the under-determination of theories by data, theory succession and the M-theory programme, explanation, and scientific understanding.

Finally, Sebastian De Haro and Jeremy Butterfield propose a view of scientific theories in this book-they call their account the geometric view of theories.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.

Author: Sebastian de Haro,Jeremy Butterfield
ISBN-10: 0198846339
ISBN-13: 9780198846338
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/24/2025
Pages: 624
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.35lbs
Size: 6.20h x 6.20w x 1.80d
By Sebastian de Haro
By Sebastian de Haro
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Sebastian De Haro, Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Science, University of Amsterdam, Jeremy Butterfield, Senior Research Fellow (Emeritus), Cambridge University

Sebastian De Haro is Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Science at the University of Amsterdam. He works in philosophy of physics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of technology. After obtaining his PhD in theoretical physics at Utrecht University, De Haro worked as a research associate at the University of California, Los Angeles; the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam; and King's College, London. While teaching physics and philosophy at Amsterdam University College, he obtained his PhD in philosophy of science at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Jeremy Butterfield is a Senior Research Fellow (Emeritus) at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. He previously worked at the Faculty of Philosophy and Jesus College in Cambridge, and at All Souls College, University of Oxford. Butterfield's research in the philosophy of physics has mainly focused on relativity theory, classical mechanics, and quantum theory. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.

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