Physical Theory and its Interpretation Essays in Honor of Jeffrey Bub /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Demopoulos, William (Editor), Pitowsky, Itamar (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Series: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, 72
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Philosophy and science.; Quantum physics.; Quantum computers.; Spintronics.; Philosophy of Science.; Quantum Physics.; Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics.

The essays in this volume were written by leading researchers on classical mechanics, statistical mechanics, quantum theory and relativity. The papers cover a number of central topics in the foundations of physics, including the role of symmetry principles in classical and quantum physics (papers by...

Table of Contents:

• A New Modal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics in Terms of Relational Properties
• Why Special Relativity Should Not Be a Template for a Fundamental Reformulation of Quantum Mechanics
• On Symmetry and Conserved Quantities in Classical Mechanics
• On the Notion of a Physical Theory of an Incompletely Knowable Domain
• Markov Properties and Quantum Experiments
• Quantum Entropy
• Symmetry and the Scope of Scientific Realism
• Is it True; or is it False; or Somewhere in Between? The Logic of Quantum Theory
• Einstein's Hole Argument and Weyl's Field-body Relationalism
• Quantum Mechanics as a Theory of Probability
• John Von Neumann on Quantum Correlations
• Kriske, Tupman and Quantum Logic: The Quantum Logician's Conundrum.