Philosophy of physics : quantum theory /

"In this book, Tim Maudlin, one of the world's leading philosophers of physics, offers a sophisticated, original introduction to the philosophy of quantum mechanics. The briefest, clearest, and most refined account of his influential approach to the subject, the book will be invaluable to...

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Main Author: Maudlin, Tim (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2019.
Series:Princeton foundations of contemporary philosophy.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-230) and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction -- Eight experiments -- The quantum recipe -- The wavefunction and the quantum state -- Collapse theories and the problem of local beables -- Pilot wave theories -- Many worlds -- Relativistic quantum field theory. 
520 |a "In this book, Tim Maudlin, one of the world's leading philosophers of physics, offers a sophisticated, original introduction to the philosophy of quantum mechanics. The briefest, clearest, and most refined account of his influential approach to the subject, the book will be invaluable to all students of philosophy and physics. Quantum mechanics holds a unique place in the history of physics. It has produced the most accurate predictions of any scientific theory, but, more astonishing, there has never been any agreement about what the theory implies about physical reality. Maudlin argues that the very term "quantum theory" is a misnomer. A proper physical theory should clearly describe what is there and what it does--yet standard textbooks present quantum mechanics as a predictive recipe in search of a physical theory. In contrast, Maudlin explores three proper theories that recover the quantum predictions: the indeterministic wavefunction collapse theory of Ghirardi, Rimini, and Weber; the deterministic particle theory of deBroglie and Bohm; and the conceptually challenging Many Worlds theory of Everett. Each offers a radically different proposal for the nature of physical reality, but Maudlin shows that none of them are what they are generally taken to be."-- 
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