What is Physics? A defence of classical theism.
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Table of contents.
- Introduction
- Tools
- Logic
- Probability
- The Scientific Method
- Metaphysics
- Introduction
- Assumptions and definitions
- Aristotelian Metaphysics
- Introduction
- The Premises of Aristotelian Metaphysics
- Being and Matter
- Mind and Life
- Causality
- Aristotelian Physics
- Successes
- Failures
- The Emergence of the Modern World-View
- Definition of Science
- The Emergence of Classical Physics
- The Merton Calculators and Their Successors
- The Experimental Tradition
- The Emergence of Mechanism
- Astronomy
- Descartes
- Consequences of Descartes' Philosophy, and His Influence on Later Writers
- Classical Physics comes to Maturity
- From Galileo to Newton
- From Newton to Einstein
- Space and Time: from Aristotle to Newton
- The Formalization of Mathematics
- Special Relativity
- Noether’s Theorem
- General Relativity
- The Philosophy of Classical physics
- Positivism
- Methodology
- The Classical View of Space and Time
- God
- Causality
- Is Enlightenment a Good Thing?
- The Fate of Scholastic Metaphysics
- Statistical Approaches to Physics
- Statistical Physics
- The Second Law of Thermodynamics
- Natural Selection
- Quantum mechanics and Field Theory
- Introduction
- Quantum Mechanics
- Relativistic Quantum Mechanics
- Quantum Field Theory
- The Standard Model
- The Philosophical Implications of Quantum Field Theory
- The Physics of Many Particles and the Philosophy of Form
- Metaphysical Implications of Quantum Field Theory
- Principle of Causality
- Modern Objections to A Classical theory of God
- Introduction
- Classical Presentations of the Argument For God
- Hume
- Kant
- Summary
- A Classical Theory of God
- Definition of God
- The Attributes of God
- The Mind of God
- The Persons of God
- Ethics
- Introduction
- Types of Ethical Theories
- Is an Objective Ethical Theory Possible?
- Virtue, Duty, and Consequentialist Ethics
- Natural Law Ethics
- The Goodness of God and Man
- God and Evil
- From Theism to Physics
- Introduction
- Premises
- Quantum Field Theory
- Fermion States
- Bell’s Theorem
- Quantum Electrodynamics
- The Classical Limit
- The Standard Model of Particle Physics
- Gravity
- Recap
- Fine Tuning
- Summary
- Miracles
- Introduction
- Objections to the Miraculous
- How to Assess the Evidence for Miracles
- Summary
- Conclusion