Is there any book that describes the relation between mechanics and philosophy?
Would this be relevant?
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Someone writing in the area of the philosophy of science once wrote that a major factor in moving Eurocentric in the direction of a science of physics rather than just an eclectic set of technologies for doing things such as building large structures was the belief that the laws of nature were laid out by God, and that by understanding physics one would come much nearer to being able to read the mind of God. It was no longer sufficient, e.g., to be able to calculate the amount of gunpowder needed in a cannon to reach to and destroy a distant ship in the harbor. Thinkers wanted to know, "What is really going on?" Newton was a breakthrough thinker. Classical mechanics could allow just about anything to be calculated. However, people also came to the realization that you could have 100% confirming evidence, from your study in England, that "All swans are white." Then you get on a ship that makes you one of Europe's earliest visitors to Australia and you soon encounter your first black swan. That discovery made it necessary to count as false the theory that all swans are white. Even so, by the closing years of the 19th century physicists were becoming more and more sure that they had everything figured out. There were only a few "anomalous" situations that had yet to be corralled and put in the company of the rest of Newtonian physics.
Then along came Planck, and before too much more time had elapsed there was Niels Bohr, and at blinding speed for a subject that people had been trying to tease apart for more than 2000 years Heisenberg produced his 1925 paper that announced the birth of the new quantum mechanics. Perhaps with a lingering trace of the idea that physics reads the mind of God, Einstein looked at the consequences of quantum mechanics and declared that God does not throw dice. It is now generally agreed that Einstein got that wrong. At the same time his theories of relativity and related experiments took down Newtonian physics in another way.
If philosophy is the practice of being intentional about how we think in an effort to root out mistakes in thinking every time they betray themselves, then philosophy is very active with mechanics and physics in general at present because although quantum mechanics has been more substantially substantiated or confirmed by experiment, nevertheless, it can't be united with what humans have figured out about gravity.
You asked for books, so I am going to suggest that you read the best secondary source I have ever found, /Kant's Metaphysics and Theory of Science/, by Gottfried Martin. It's slightly off target, but it is an exemplary instance of how to think about the kinds of things I am guessing that you are interested in.
Then, because there is such a huge set of book on Quantum Physics, I suggest you get a copy of /Introducing Quantum Theory/ by J.P. McEvoy and Oscar Zarate. Except on page 126, I haven't found a single thing to complain about. On page 126, when they say that, according to Heisenberg, pq ≠ qp, p and q are symbols for matrices, not symbols for things like mass and acceleration or guests and ounces of beans. The book can function as your finding scope. Other books may concentrate on narrow subjects taken to great depths, and moving from book to book you may quickly get very confused.
I can contribute to this discussion by proposing a book called 'The New Mechanical Philosophy' by Glennan Stuart.
I don't know if it is related enough to what you want, but I make this suggestion.
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