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On Physics and Philosophy
Among the great ironies of quantum mechanics is not only that its conceptual foundations seem strange even to the physicists who use it, but that philosophers have largely ignored it. Here, Bernard d'Espagnat argues that quantum physics--by casting doubts on once hallowed concepts such as space...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2006.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Part 1: Physical facts and related conceptual problems. Broad overview
- Overstepping the limits of the framework of familiar concepts
- Nonseparability and Bell's Theorem
- Objectivity and empirical reality
- Quantum physics and realism
- Universal laws and the "reality" question
- Antirealism and physics; the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen problem; methodological operationalism
- Measurement and decoherence, universality revisited
- Various realist attempts
- Schrödinger's cat, Wigner's friend, and veiled reality
- Part 2: A philosophical analysis. Science and philosophy
- Materialisms
- Suggestions from Kantism
- Causality and observational predictability
- Explanation and phenomena
- Mind and things
- Pragmatic-transcendental versus veiled reality approaches
- Objects and consciousness
- The "ground of things"
- Appendix 1: The Bell Theorem
- Appendix 2: Consistent histories, counterfactuality, and Bell's Theorem
- Appendix 3: Correlation-at-a-distance in the Broglie-Bohm model.