UID:
edocfu_9959239534602883
Format:
1 online resource (277 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-59524-7
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0-203-24980-1
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0-203-46431-1
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1-280-10798-7
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1-134-59525-5
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9786610107988
Series Statement:
Critical realism--interventions
Content:
A critical introduction to the long-standing debate concerning the conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics, and the problems the field has posed for physicists and philosophers from Einstein to the present.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Is it possible to be a realist about quantum mechanics; 2 Quantum theory and the logic of anti realism; 3 Bell Bohm and the EPR debate a case for nonlocal realism; 4 Quantum worlds without end: the multiverse according to Deutsch; 5 Should philosophers take lessons from quantum theory; 6 Putnam's progress: quantum theory and the flight from realism; 7 Can logic be quantum-relativized? Putnam, Dummett and the great quantum muddle; 8 From Copenhagen to the stars some ways of quantum worldmaking; Index of names
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-22322-9
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-22321-0
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203464311
