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Quantum Ontology
Author | : Peter J. Lewis |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2016-06-13 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780190618797 |
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Metaphysicians should pay attention to quantum mechanics. Why? Not because it provides definitive answers to many metaphysical questions-the theory itself is remarkably silent on the nature of the physical world, and the various interpretations of the theory on offer present conflicting ontological pictures. Rather, quantum mechanics is essential to the metaphysician because it reshapes standard metaphysical debates and opens up unforeseen new metaphysical possibilities. Even if quantum mechanics provides few clear answers, there are good reasons to think that any adequate understanding of the quantum world will result in a radical reshaping of our classical world-view in some way or other. Whatever the world is like at the atomic scale, it is almost certainly not the swarm of particles pushed around by forces that is often presupposed. This book guides readers through the theory of quantum mechanics and its implications for metaphysics in a clear and accessible way. The theory and its various interpretations are presented with a minimum of technicality. The consequences of these interpretations for metaphysical debates concerning realism, indeterminacy, causation, determinism, holism, and individuality (among other topics) are explored in detail, stressing the novel form that the debates take given the empirical facts in the quantum domain. While quantum mechanics may not deliver unconditional pronouncements on these issues, the range of possibilities consistent with our knowledge of the empirical world is relatively small-and each possibility is metaphysically revisionary in some way. This book will appeal to researchers, students, and anybody else interested in how science informs our world-view.
Quantum Ontology
Author | : Peter J. Lewis |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780190469825 |
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Metaphysicians should pay attention to quantum mechanics-not because it provides definitive answers to many metaphysical questions, but because it reshapes standard metaphysical debates and opens up unforeseen new possibilities. This book guides readers through the theory of quantum mechanics and its metaphysical implications in a clear and accessible way.
Quantum Mechanics Between Ontology and Epistemology
Author | : Florian J. Boge |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2018-10-24 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9783319957654 |
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This book explores the prospects of rivaling ontological and epistemic interpretations of quantum mechanics (QM). It concludes with a suggestion for how to interpret QM from an epistemological point of view and with a Kantian touch. It thus refines, extends, and combines existing approaches in a similar direction. The author first looks at current, hotly debated ontological interpretations. These include hidden variables-approaches, Bohmian mechanics, collapse interpretations, and the many worlds interpretation. He demonstrates why none of these ontological interpretations can claim to be the clear winner amongst its rivals. Next, coverage explores the possibility of interpreting QM in terms of knowledge but without the assumption of hidden variables. It examines QBism as well as Healey’s pragmatist view. The author finds both interpretations or programs appealing, but still wanting in certain respects. As a result, he then goes on to advance a genuine proposal as to how to interpret QM from the perspective of an internal realism in the sense of Putnam and Kant. The book also includes two philosophical interludes. One details the notions of probability and realism. The other highlights the connections between the notions of locality, causality, and reality in the context of violations of Bell-type inequalities.
The Meaning of the Wave Function
Author | : Shan Gao |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2017-03-16 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781107124356 |
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Covering much of the recent debate, this ambitious text provides new, decisive proof of the reality of the wave function.
Quantum Mind and Social Science
Author | : Alexander Wendt |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2015-04-23 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9781107082540 |
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A unique contribution to the understanding of social science, showing the implications of quantum physics for the nature of human society.
Quantum Mechanics and Fundamentality
Author | : Valia Allori |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2022-07-27 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9783030996420 |
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This edited collection provides new perspectives on some metaphysical questions arising in quantum mechanics. These questions have been long-standing and are of continued interest to researchers and graduate students working in physics, philosophy of physics, and metaphysics. It features contributions from a diverse set of researchers, ranging from senior scholars to junior academics, working in varied fields, from physics to philosophy of physics and metaphysics. The contributors reflect on issues about fundamentality (is quantum theory fundamental? If so, what is its fundamental ontology?), ontological dependence (how do ordinary objects exist even if they are not fundamental?), realism (what kind of realism is compatible with quantum theory?), indeterminacy (can the world itself exhibit ontological indeterminacy?). The book contains contributions from both physicists (including Nobel Prize winner Gerard 't Hooft), science communicators and philosophers.
Quantum Worlds
Author | : Olimpia Lombardi,Sebastian Fortin,Cristian López,Federico Holik |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 2019-04-11 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781108473477 |
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Offers a comprehensive and up-to-date volume on the conceptual and philosophical problems related to the interpretation of quantum mechanics.
The Undivided Universe
Author | : David Bohm,Basil J. Hiley |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2006-01-16 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781134807130 |
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First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.