Drawing scales apart: The origins of Wilson's conception of effective field theories

Rivat, Sébastien

doi:10.1016/j.shpsa.2021.10.013

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“…As Rivat (2021) argues, the analogies with condensed matter physics form only a part of the story for Wilson's work leading to the renormalization group. His earlier work in meson physics also played an important role.…”

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Renormalization group methods and the epistemology of effective field theories

Koberinski

Fraser

2023

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science

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Renormalization group methods and the epistemology of effective field theories

Koberinski

Fraser

2023

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science

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“…The development of renormalisation theory followingWilson (1971) showed a very broad sense in which this holds; seeDuncan (2012, Chapters 16-19) for its conceptual foundations andRivat (2021) for a historical analysis. Recent discussions of its philosophical significance in the context of scientific realism have been given byButterfield and Bouatta (2015);Fraser (2018);Rivat (2019);Rivat and Grinbaum (2020);Ruetsche (2018); Williams (2020).…”

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Reversing the Arrow of Time

Roberts¹

2022

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The arrow of time refers to the curious asymmetry that distinguishes the future from the past. Reversing the Arrow of Time argues that there is an intimate link between the symmetries of 'time itself' and time reversal symmetry in physical theories, which has wide-ranging implications for both physics and its philosophy. This link helps to clarify how we can learn about the symmetries of our world; how to understand the relationship between symmetries and what is real, and how to overcome pervasive illusions about the direction of time. Roberts explains the significance of time reversal in a way that intertwines physics and philosophy, to establish what the arrow of time means and how we can come to know it. This book is both mathematically and philosophically rigorous yet remains accessible to advanced undergraduates in physics and philosophy of physics. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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“…provides a detailed reconstruction of the development of RG methods in particle physics, highlighting the role of formal analogies between classical SM and QFT.6 For what regards the development of the EFT idea and its relevance to the philosophical debate on intertheory relations (and the related debates on reduction, fundamentality and emergence), see, for instance,Cao and Schweber (1993);Hartmann (2001);Castellani (2002);Buttereld and Bouatta (2015),Rosaler and Harlander (2019). A recent historical-philosophical reconstruction of Wilson's work on EFT isRivat (2021).…”

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