Boltzmann's Concept of Reality

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2007-01-27

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0701308v1

Physics

History and Philosophy of Physics

13 pages, pdf only. To appear in the book on Ludwig Boltzmann scientific philosophy, published by Nova Science. Edited by A. E

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In this article we describe and analyze the concept of reality developed by the Austrian theoretical physicist Ludwig Boltzmann. It is our thesis that Boltzmann was fully aware that reality could, and actually was, described by different points of view. In spite of this, Boltzmann did not renounce the idea that reality is real. We also discuss his main motivations to be strongly involved with philosophy of science, as well as further developments made by Boltzmann himself of his main philosophical ideas, namely scientific theories as images of Nature and its consequences. We end the paper with a discussion about the modernity of Boltzmann's philosophy of science.

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