De Courtenay / Darrigol / Schlaudt The Reform of the International System of Units (SI)

Philosophical, Historical and Sociological Issues
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-351-04897-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 220 Seiten

Reihe: History and Philosophy of Technoscience

Systems of units still fail to attract the philosophical attention they deserve but this could change with the current reform of the International System of Units (SI). Most of the SI base units will henceforth be based on certain laws of nature and a choice of fundamental constants whose values will be frozen. The theoretical, experimental and institutional work required to implement the reform highlights the entanglement of scientific, technological and social features in scientific enterprise while it also invites a philosophical inquiry that promises to overcome the tensions that have long obstructed science studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

De Courtenay, Nadine

Darrigol, Olivier

Schlaudt, Oliver

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technologie: Soziale & Ethische Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.Introduction (Nadine de Courtenay, Olivier Darrigol and Oliver Schlaudt) 2. The origins of the Metre Convention, the SI and the development of modern metrology (Terry Quinn) 3. Justifying and motivating an SI for all people for all time (Martin Milton) 4. Reforming the international system of units: On our way to redefine the base units solely from fundamental constants and beyond (Christian Bordé) 5. Strategies for the definition of a system of units (Alessandro Giordani and Luca Mari) 6. Relations between units and relations between quantities (Susan Sterrett) 7. On the Conceptual Nature of the Physical Constants (Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond) 8. And How Experiments Begin: The International Prototype Kilogram and the Planck Constant (Sally Riordan) 9. The SI and the Problem of Spatiotemporal Constancy (Ingvar Johansson)

Über Autor(innen)

Oliver Schlaudt is at Heidelberg University, Germany

Nadine de Courtenay is at the University of Paris Diderot, France

Oliver Darrigol is at the University of Paris Diderot, France