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On physics and philosophy  Cover Image Book Book

On physics and philosophy / Bernard d'Espagnat.

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  • ISBN: 0691119643
  • ISBN: 9780691119649
  • Physical Description: ix, 503 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2006.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Translation of: Traiteƌ de physique et de philosophie.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [485]-491) and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note:
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 -- Schroƌdinger'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.
Subject: Physics > Philosophy.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.

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