Reexamining the Quantum-Classical Relation

ISBN-13: 9780521857208 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 208 str.

Alisa Bokulich

Opis

The relation between quantum mechanics and classical mechanics, argued from historical, philosophical, and scientific perspectives.

Recenzje

'… Alisa Bokulich dwells extensively on the history of quantum mechanics and the philosophical ideas of its founding fathers and also on recent developments in physics. [This] book has thus become a goldmine of information and original ideas about quantum mechanics and its philosophy, in addition to being a philosophical treatise about the relation between theories.' Dennis Dieks, Metascience

Spis treści

1. Intertheoretic relations: are imperialism and isolationism our only options?; 2. Heisenberg's closed theories and pluralistic realism; 3. Dirac's open theories and the reciprocal correspondence principle; 4. Bohr's generalization of classical mechanics; 5. Semiclassical mechanics: putting quantum flesh on classical bones; 6. Can classical structures explain quantum phenomena?; 7. A structural approach to intertheoretic relations; References; Index.