It is often said that there is no "philosophy of science", but only the philosophies of certain scientists. But in so far as we recognize an authoritative body of opinion which decides what is and what is not accepted as present-day physics, there is an ascertainable present-day philosophy of physical science. It is the philosophy to which those who follow the accepted practice of science stand committed by their practice.
This book contains the substance of the course of lectures which the author Eddington delivered as Tarner Lecturer of Trinity College Cambridge in the Easter Term 1938. The lectures have afforded him an opportunity of developing more fully than in his earlier books the principles of philosophic thought associated with the modern advances of physical science.
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Sir Arthur Eddington:The English astronomer and mathematician Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington is famous for his work concerning the theory of relativity. He is also well known a philosopher of science and a populariser of science.Klaus-Dieter Sedlacek:Der Herausgeber Dipl.-Math. Klaus-Dieter Sedlacek studierte in Stuttgart neben Mathematik und Informatik auch Physik. Nach fünfundzwanzig Jahren Berufspraxis in der eigenen Firma widmet er sich nun seinen privaten Forschungsvorhaben und veröffentlicht die Ergebnisse in allgemein verständlicher Form. Darüber hinaus ist er der Herausgeber mehrerer Buchreihen unter anderem der Reihen 'Wissenschaftliche Bibliothek' und 'Wissen gemeinverständlich'.