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Quantum mechanics : an empiricist view /
The author argues that quantum theory admits a plurality of interpretations, each aiding further understanding of the theory, but also advocating specifically the Copenhagen Variant of the Modal Interpretation. That variant is applied to topics like the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox and the proble...
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Oxford [England] : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
1991.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Van Fraassen, Bas C., |d 1941- | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Quantum mechanics : |b an empiricist view / |c Bas C. van Fraassen. |
| 260 | |a Oxford [England] : |b Clarendon Press ; |a New York : |b Oxford University Press, |c 1991. | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 502-527) and index. | ||
| 520 | 8 | |a The author argues that quantum theory admits a plurality of interpretations, each aiding further understanding of the theory, but also advocating specifically the Copenhagen Variant of the Modal Interpretation. That variant is applied to topics like the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox and the problem of 'identical' particles. | |
| 588 | 0 | |a Print version record. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Preface -- Summary Table of Contents -- Contents -- 1. What Is Science? -- 1. Two views about science -- 2. Theories and models -- 3. Interpretation: science as open text -- 4. Models and scientific practice -- 5. More about empiricism -- PART I. DETERMINISM AND INDETERMINISM IN CLASSICAL PERSPECTIVE -- 2. Determinism -- 1. How symmetry is connected to determinism -- 2. State-space models and their laws -- 3. Symmetry, transformation, invariance -- 4. Symmetries of time: classical (in)determinism -- 5. Conservation laws and covariance | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 3. Indeterminism and Probability1. Pure indeterminism and the modalities -- 2. Probability as measure of the possible -- 3. Symmetry and a priori probability -- 4. Permutation symmetry: De Finetti's representation theorem -- 5. Ergodic theory: underlying determinism -- 6. A classical version of Schroedinger's equation -- 7. Holism: indeterminism in compound systems -- PART II. HOW THE PHENOMENA DEMAND QUANTUM THEORY -- 4. The Empirical Basis of Quantum Theory -- 1. Threat of indeterminism -- 2. Causality in an indeterministic world | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 3. Deduction of Bell's Inequalities4. The experiments -- 5. General description of causal models -- 6. Does locality really play a role? -- 5. New Probability Models and their Logic -- 1. When are values indeterminate? -- 2. General and geometric probability models -- 3. Accardi's inequalities -- 4. The end of counterfactual definiteness -- 5. Models of measurement: a trilemma for interpretation -- 6. Introduction to quantum logic -- 7. Is quantum logic important? -- PART III. MATHEMATICAL FOUNDATIONS -- 6. The Basic Theory of Quantum Mechanics | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 1. Pure states and observables2. Pure states, observables, and vectors -- 3. Observables and operators -- 4. Mixed states and operators -- 5. Gleason's theorem and its implications -- 6. Symmetries and motion: Schroedinger's equation -- 7. Symmetries and conservation laws -- 8. The radical effect of superselection rules -- 7. Composite Systems, Interaction, and Measurement -- 1. Composition -- 2. Reduction -- 3. Interaction and the ignorance interpretation of mixtures -- 4. The quantum-mechanical theory of measurement -- 5. Preparation of state | |
| 505 | 8 | |a PART IV. QUESTIONS OF INTERPRETATION8. Critique of the Standard Interpretation -- 1. What is an interpretation? -- 2. Two forms of indeterminism -- 3. What happens in measurement? von Neumann's answer -- 4. Von Neumann's first defence: consistency of measurement -- 5. Von Neumann's second defence: repeatable measurement -- 6. R.I.G. Hughes's argument from conditional probability -- 7. Two cat paradoxes and the macro world -- 8. Macroscopic character and superselection rules -- 9. Modal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics -- 1. The modal interpretation | |
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