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On physics and philosophy
Traité de physique et de philosophie. English
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"On Physics and Philosophy is an accessible, mathematics-free reflection on the philosophical meaning of the quantum revolution, by one of the world's leading authorities on the subject. D'Espagnat...
"On Physics and Philosophy is an accessible, mathematics-free reflection on the philosophical meaning of the quantum revolution, by one of the world's leading authorities on the subject. D'Espagnat presents an objective account of the main guiding principles of contemporary physics - in particular, quantum mechanics - followed by a look at just what consequences these should imply for philosophical thinking."--
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- Creator
- Bernard d'Espagnat
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- English
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- [Cambridge] : [International Society for Science and Religion], [2007?]
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- ix, 503 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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- 9780691119649, 0691119643
- OCLC
- ocn756866367
- "ZZ1 DB01" -- Spine.
- Translation of: Traité de physique et de philosophie.
- Previously published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2006.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 485-491) and indexes.
- 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