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The metaphysics of physics

The metaphysics of physics. At issue today. Modern physics What is physics? Physics pedagogy. Newton’s optics. 1666 Mathematics. Modern physics. Galileo & Newton Periods of lonely effort Tried to show others Hermeneutic philosophy of science Kant 1882 How is physics possible?

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The metaphysics of physics

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  1. The metaphysics of physics

  2. At issue today Modern physics What is physics? Physics pedagogy

  3. Newton’s optics 1666 Mathematics

  4. Modern physics Galileo & Newton Periods of lonely effort Tried to show others Hermeneutic philosophy of science Kant 1882 How is physics possible? Heidegger Heelan

  5. Heidegger’s metaphysics

  6. Truth is an event Of disclosure All beings Special instance Of correspondence Many formulations Reality with our description Symbols with symbols

  7. Model of human-ness Ontological “structure” Understanding Disposition Nomination Ontological kinetic For-the-sake-of-which cascades Way of being-in-the-world: past-present-future equiprimordial (care structure)

  8. KNS schema(Kriegsnotsemester 1919) IA Das vorweltliche EtwasThe pretheoretical something – preworldly something (basic movement of life as such), primal something, original something, Ur-etwas [The It which worlds and thus properizes itself] IB Welthaftes EtwasThe pretheoretical something – world-laden something (basic movement of particular spheres of experience),genuine lifeworld IIA Formallogisches gegenständliches EtwasThe theoretical something – formal-logical objective something(motivated in primal something) IIB Objektariges Etwas The theoretical something – object-type something (motivated in a genuine lifeworld)

  9. Heidegger’s characteristics of science Ground-plan Pre-logic Measurable “Objects” Perception Expect the Real Force revelations Follow procedures Truth as correspondence Truth as disclosures of the Real Institutions Consequence of disclosures

  10. Physics pedagogy Aim Disclosure Truth & reality Importance of correspondence For-the-sake-of-which Transience of truth Implications Demonstrations Assertion of the individual Art, music, technology Curriculum Foil to modernity

  11. Truth in physics

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