The metaphysics of quantum theory
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The metaphysics of quantum theory
Clarendon Press, 1987
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Includes index
内容説明・目次
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: pbk ISBN 9780198242802
内容説明
This book outlines the contours of the various debates on quantum theory, and presents an interpretation of it which, while metaphysically realist, resolves most of the paradoxes that have arisen. It aims to make these issues of interest not only to the specialist philosopher and physicist but also to readers who do not have a background in physics. A set of technical appendices provides a graduated series of proofs which introduce the quantum theory of
continuous-valued quantities.
目次
- Introduction
- Bohr
- The State-vector and Probabilities
- The Pilot-field
- Operators and Physical Quantities
- Measurement
- Realism
- Kocken and Specker
- Stapp and Eberhard
- Heywood and Redhead. Appendices
- Operators and Physical Quantities
- Advantages of the Operator Representation
- Degenerate Physical Quantities
- The Density Operator Formalism
- The Density Operator of Sub-systems
- The Product of Pure States
- Impossibility of Reduction
- The Bork Interpretation
- The Principal
- The Independence of Pure States
- Contextualization
- Index of Principles
- Bibliography
- Index.
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ISBN 9780198249719
内容説明
The interplay between non-relativistic quantum theory and metaphysics has generated radically opposed interpretations for quantum theory: Niels Bohr's 'orthodox' interpretation, and Einstein's 'realist' one. Out of this debate emerged the classical first-generation paradoxes of quantum theory: Schrodinger's Cat and the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradoxes. And more recently a range of new paradoxes has emerged from the work of J.S. Bell which questions the `local' nature of quantum theory, prefiguring a return either to an action-at-a-distance metaphysics or to a radically holistic conception of matter. This book outlines the contours of these debates, and presents an interpretation of quantum theory which, while metaphysically realist, resolves most of the paradoxes. This interpretation takes quantum systems to be fuzzy particles, piloted by fields of propensities which are represented by density operators on Hilbert space; and constitutes, in part, a return to an earlier view of quantum systems advanced by De Broglie, Schrodinger, Born, and Einstein. A book for philosophers and physicists who are interested in the philo sophy o f science.
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