After Physics.

Here the philosopher and physicist David Z Albert argues, among other things, that the difference between past and future can be understood as a mechanical phenomenon of nature and that quantum mechanics makes it impossible to present the entirety of what can be said about the world as a narrative o...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Albert, David Z. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Physics > Philosophy.
Physique > Philosophie.
SCIENCE > Energy.
SCIENCE > Mechanics > General.
SCIENCE > Physics > General.
Physics > Philosophy
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Physics and chance
  • The difference between the past and the future
  • The past-hypothesis and knowledge of the external world
  • The technique of significables
  • Physics and narrative
  • Quantum mechanics and life
  • Primitive ontology
  • Probability in the everett picture.

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