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Philosophical Problems of Physics

Class at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
NPOZ007

Syllabus

Topics of individual seminars are independent, being announced during the semester. Examples from the last years:

Problems of contemporary physics and their philosophical aspects, general relativity and cosmology, anthropic principle, physics of micro-world, string theory, quasi-particles.

Neopositivistic philosophy, phenomenology of E. Husserl, induction problem, K. Popper, postmodernism.

History of physics and culture, cultural implications of Newtonian physics, Galilei and inquisition, Ptolemy and Copernicus.

Annotation

Seminar devoted to philosophical topics in physics, with the emphasis on its naturalistic and cultural context.