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Physical Theory and its Interpretation Essays in Honor of Jeffrey Bub /

The essays in this volume were written by leading researchers on classical mechanics, statistical mechanics, quantum theory and relativity. The papers cover a number of central topics in the foundations of physics, including the role of symmetry principles in classical and quantum physics (papers by...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Demopoulos, William (Editor ), Pitowsky, Itamar (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2006.
Edición:1st ed. 2006.
Colección:The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, A Series of Books in Philosophy of Science, Methodology, Epistemology, Logic, History of Science, and Related Fields, 72
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
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  • A New Modal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics in Terms of Relational Properties
  • Why Special Relativity Should Not Be a Template for a Fundamental Reformulation of Quantum Mechanics
  • On Symmetry and Conserved Quantities in Classical Mechanics
  • On the Notion of a Physical Theory of an Incompletely Knowable Domain
  • Markov Properties and Quantum Experiments
  • Quantum Entropy
  • Symmetry and the Scope of Scientific Realism
  • Is it True; or is it False; or Somewhere in Between? The Logic of Quantum Theory
  • Einstein's Hole Argument and Weyl's Field-body Relationalism
  • Quantum Mechanics as a Theory of Probability
  • John Von Neumann on Quantum Correlations
  • Kriske, Tupman and Quantum Logic: The Quantum Logician's Conundrum.