Reductionism, emergence, and effective field theories

DOI10.1016/S1355-2198(02)00003-5zbMath1222.81010arXivphysics/0101039MaRDI QIDQ720485

Elena Castellani

Publication date: 15 October 2011

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0101039

zbMATH Keywords

quantum field theoryrenormalizationemergencereductionismfundamentalityinter-level relations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of quantum theory (81-03) Quantum field theory; related classical field theories (81T99)

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