Understanding Electromagnetism
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 8397141 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Gordon Belot (Princeton University, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 1998 |
| Volumen | 49 |
| Número | 4 |
| Páginas | 531-555 |
| Fecha de publicación | 1998-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0007-0882 • E-ISSN: 1464-3537 |
| Editorial | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjps/49.4.531 |
| OpenAlex | W4231015766 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 45 |
| Referencias citadas | 7 |
It is often said that the Aharonov-Bohm effect shows that the vector potential enjoys more ontological significance than we previously realized. But how can a quantum-mechanical effect teach us something about the interpretation of Maxwell's theory—let alone about the ontological structure of the world—when both theories are false? I present a rational reconstruction of the interpretative repercussions of the Aharonov-Bohm effect, and suggest some morals for our conception of the interpretative enterprise.
Electromagnetism · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy) · Linguistics · Physics · Quantum mechanics · Theoretical physics · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Philosophy, Science, and History · Quantum Mechanics and Applications
Quantum Theory and Novel Scientific Language
General Relativity Needs No Interpretation
Inconsistency, Asymmetry, and Non-Locality
The Logic in Philosophy of Science
Are Newtonian Gravitation and Geometrized Newtonian Gravitation Theoretically Equivalent?
Towards Ideal Understanding
What Are Symmetries
How to Choose a Gauge? The Case of Hamiltonian Electromagnetism
On Perspicuous Representation in Physics
Scientific understanding in the Aharonov‐Bohm effect
Holism and structuralism in U(1) gauge theory
Classical fields and quantum time-evolution in the Aharonov–Bohm effect
A partial elucidation of the gauge principle
Symmetry and gauge freedom
Conceptual Foundations of Yang–Mills Theories
Falling cats, parallel parking, and polarized light
Which gauge matters
Non-locality in intrinsic topologically ordered systems
Why is the transference theory of causation insufficient? The challenge of the Aharonov-Bohm effect
Change in Hamiltonian general relativity from the lack of a time-like Killing vector field
Maudlin's Mathematical Maneuver
Idealizations, essential self-adjointness, and minimal model explanation in the Aharonov–Bohm effect
Change Without Change, and How to Observe it in General Relativity
Once upon a time in superspace
Is spacetime curved? Assessing the underdetermination of general relativity and teleparallel gravity
Fiber bundles, Yang–Mills theory, and general relativity
Invariance or equivalence
Are models our tools not our masters
On gauge symmetries, indiscernibilities, and groupoid-theoretical equalities
I ain’t afraid of no ghost
Isolated systems and their symmetries, part I
The metaphysics of fibre bundles
Sameness and Separability in Gauge Theories
Scientific Realism Made Effective
Against Pointillisme about Mechanics
Nonseparability, Classical, and Quantum
Betting on Future Physics
Gravity and Gauge
The Rotating Discs Argument Defeated
The Coalescence Approach to Inequivalent Representation
Gauge and Ghosts
Are Gauge Symmetry Transformations Observable
Non‐Locality in Classical Electrodynamics
Wait, Why Gauge
Infinite idealizations in physics
| Obras citantes distintas | 45 |
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| Citas por año | 1,88 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2002 - 2026 (25) |
| Velocidad de citación | current |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 43 |