Światy indeterministyczne Franza-Serafina Exnera i Mariana Smoluchowskiego
Indeterministic worlds of Franz-Serafin Exner and Marian Smoluchowski
Author(s): Jacek RodzeńSubject(s): Philosophy, Special Branches of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
Published by: Copernicus Center Press
Keywords: philosophy of nature; history of science; laws of nature; chance; indeterminism; Franz-Serafin Exner; Marian Smoluchowski
Summary/Abstract: The paper presents philosophical views which have been propagated in the first decade of the 20th-century by Austrian experimental physicist Franz-Serafin Exner (1846-1926). According to Exner all apparently deterministic laws are only a kind of the macroscopic limit of the indeterministic random events and processes in nature. The paper attempts to show whether Exner’s ideas have influenced the views on randomness and probability developed by renowned Polish physicist Marian Smoluchowski (1872-1917) who belonged to informal circle of Exner’s students and assistants (so-called Exner-Kreis).
Journal: Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce
- Issue Year: 2017
- Issue No: 62
- Page Range: 73-98
- Page Count: 26
- Language: Polish