ABSTRACT
The twentieth-century developments in physical science have involved very considerable divergences from the scheme of ideas, discussed in the previous chapter, which constituted the basis of physics in the preceding two centuries-now usually referred to as 'classical' physics in distinction from the recent physics of the relativity and quantum theories. This divergence has evoked quite a bit of attention to philosophical considerations, in varying degrees of penetration, by a number of leading physicists and a few philosophers.
