Quantum Reality, Relativistic Causality, and Closing the Epistemic Circle Essays in Honour of Abner Shimony /

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Myrvold, Wayne C. (Συγγραφέας), Christian, Joy (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Σειρά: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, 73
• Θέματα: Physics.; Philosophy and science.; Gravitation.; Quantum physics.; Quantum Physics.; Philosophy of Science.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.

In July 2006, a major international conference was held at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada, to celebrate the career and work of a remarkable man of letters. Abner Shimony, who is well known for his pioneering contributions to foundations of quantum mechanics, is a physicist a...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Passion at a Distance
• Philosophy, Methodology and History
• Balancing Necessity and Fallibilism: Charles Sanders Peirce on the Status of Mathematics and its Intersection with the Inquiry into Nature
• Newton's Methodology
• Whitehead's Philosophy and Quantum Mechanics (QM)
• Bohr and the Photon
• Bell's Theorem and Nonlocality
• Extending the Concept of an “Element of Reality” to Work with Inefficient Detectors
• A General Proof of Nonlocality without Inequalities for Bipartite States
• On the Separability of Physical Systems
• Bell Inequalities: Many Questions, a Few Answers
• Do Experimental Violations of Bell Inequalities Require a Nonlocal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics? II: Analysis à la Bell
• The Physics of 2 ? 1+1
• Probability, Uncertainty, and Stochastic Modifications of Quantum Mechanics
• Interpretations of Probability in Quantum Mechanics: A Case of “Experimental Metaphysics”
• “No Information Without Disturbance”: Quantum Limitations of Measurement
• How Stands Collapse II
• Is There a Relation Between the Breakdown of the Superposition Principle and an Indeterminacy in the Structure of the Einsteinian Space-Time?
• Indistinguishability or Stochastic Dependence?
• Relativity
• Plane Geometry in Spacetime
• The Transient nows
• Quantum in Gravity?
• A Proposed Test of the Local Causality of Spacetime
• Quantum Gravity Computers: On the Theory of Computation with Indefinite Causal Structure
• “Definability,” “Conventionality,” and Simultaneity in Einstein–Minkowski Space-Time
• Concluding Words
• Bistro Banter
• UnfinishedWork: A Bequest.