Concepts, models, and Representations of Reality (Part 2 of 4 parts) from 6-27-2020 Zoom meeting
Description
So here's part 2 of the 4 parts of the Zoom meeting we had Saturday morning of June 27, 2020. The conversation lasts about 45 minutes in this part. You will hear mostly Luis Del Pino, but also you will hear Ken Hernandez respond to and interact with Luis. Mike M is still here. Rami will eventually join us but prefers to listen. He is more active later on in part 3 and 4.
Here's a link to what we are dealing with, an article titled "Boltzmann's Concept of Reality" by Marcelo Ribeiro and Antonio Videira :
http://tinyurl.com/boltzmannrealitydocs
In this article we [Ribeiro and Videira] describe and analyze the concept of reality developed by the Austrian theoretical physicist Ludwig Boltzmann. It is our thesis that Boltzmann was fully aware that reality could, and actually was, described by different points of view. In spite of this, Boltzmann did not renounce the idea that reality is real. We also discuss his main motivations to be strongly involved with philosophy of science, as well as further developments made by Boltzmann himself of his main philosophical ideas, namely scientific theories as images of Nature and its consequences. We end the paper with a discussion about the modernity of Boltzmann’s philosophy of science.
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