INVESTIGADORES
FORTIN Sebastian Ezequiel
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Setting limits to emergence: The case of phonons
Autor/es:
S. FORTIN; M. PASQUALINI
Lugar:
Belgrado
Reunión:
Congreso; 9th biennial meeting of the European Philosophy of Science Association EPSA23; 2023
Institución organizadora:
European Philosophy of Science Association EPSA
Resumen:
According to the standard conceptualization used in materials science, crystalline solids are described as a periodic array of atoms. However, for practical reasons the system is transformed into another one made up of phonons. In the field of the philosophy of physics, Franklin and Knox argue in favor of phonons as a case of emergence compatible with reduction using the Butterfields notion of emergence.In this work we analyze the atomic and phononic descriptions from the formalisms of the Tensor Product Structures (TPS) and we conclude that these ontologies are built on the same level of reality. According to our analysis, the description of crystals in terms of phonons brings novelty but, since there are no different levels in an ontological hierarchy, it is not possible to use the notion of emergence.
