Quantum Theory and the Flight from Realism : Philosophical Responses to Quantum Mechanics

ISBN-13: 9780415223225 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 280 str.

Christopher Norris

Opis

This volume is a critical introduction to the debate concerning the conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics and the problems it has posed for physicists and philosophers from Einstein to the present. Quantum theory has been a major influence on postmodernism, and presents significant problems for realists. The author subjects a wide range of key opponents and supporters of realism to a high and equal level of scrutiny,

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1 Is it possible to be a realist about quantum mechanics?; Chapter 2 Quantum theory and the logic of anti-realism; Chapter 3 Bell, Bohm and the EPR debate; Chapter 4 Quantum worlds without end; Chapter 5 Should philosophers take lessons from quantum theory?; Chapter 6 Putnam’s progress; Chapter 7 Can logic be quantum-relativized?; Chapter 8 From Copenhagen to the stars;

O autorze

Christopher Norris is Distinguished Research Professor in Philosophy at the University of Cardiff. He is the author of many books on aspects of philosophy and critical theory, among them, most recently, Reclaiming Truth: Contribution to a Critique of Cultural Relativism, Resources of Realism: Prospects for ‘Post-Analytic’ Philosophy’, New Idols of the Cave: On the Limits of Anti-Realism, and Against Relativism: Philosophy of Science, Deconstruction and Critical Theory. His current research interests are in epistemology and philosophy of science.