Enrico Cinti, Alberto Corti, Vincenzo Fano, Marco Sanchioni
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Reichenbach’s importance to the development of modern philosophy can hardly be overstated. However, many themes and arguments originally developed by Reichenbach are either overlooked or not properly credited to him. In this article, we discuss an important but often forgotten argument of Reichenbach against the Kantian notion of synthetic a priori. We first give a detailed historical reconstruction of the argument and discuss the mild conventionalism that Reichenbach developed following this argument. Then, we recast this argument in the modern language of General Relativity. We show that this argument is still relevant for a modern attempt at articulating the notion of synthetic a priori: Friedman’s relativised synthetic a priori.
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The conceptual foundations of physics have been under constant revision from the outset, and remain so today. Discussion of foundational issues has always been a major source of progress in science, on a par with empirical knowledge and mathematics. Examples include the debates on the nature of space and time involving Newton and later Einstein; on the nature of heat and of energy; on irreversibility and probability due to Boltzmann; on the nature of matter and observation measurement during the early days of quantum theory; on the meaning of renormalisation, and many others.
Today, insightful reflection on the conceptual structure utilised in our efforts to understand the physical world is of particular value, given the serious unsolved problems that are likely to demand, once again, modifications of the grammar of our scientific description of the physical world. The quantum properties of gravity, the nature of measurement in quantum mechanics, the primary source of irreversibility, the role of information in physics – all these are examples of questions about which science is still confused and whose solution may well demand more than skilled mathematics and new experiments.
Foundations of Physics is a privileged forum for discussing such foundational issues, open to physicists, cosmologists, philosophers and mathematicians. It is devoted to the conceptual bases of the fundamental theories of physics and cosmology, to their logical, methodological, and philosophical premises.
The journal welcomes papers on issues such as the foundations of special and general relativity, quantum theory, classical and quantum field theory, quantum gravity, unified theories, thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, cosmology, and similar.
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