Quantum Philosophy: Understanding and Interpreting Contemporary Science - Hardcover

Omnès, Roland

 
9780691027876: Quantum Philosophy: Understanding and Interpreting Contemporary Science
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0691027870 ISBN 13: 9780691027876
Verlag: Princeton University Press, 1999

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In this magisterial work, Roland Omnes takes us from the academies of ancient Greece to the laboratories of modern science as he seeks to do no less than rebuild the foundations of the philosophy of knowledge. One of the world's leading quantum physicists, Omnes reviews the history and recent development of mathematics, logic, and the physical sciences to show that current work in quantum theory offers new answers to questions that have puzzled philosophers for centuries: Is the world ultimately intelligible? Are all events caused? Do objects have definitive locations? Omnes addresses these profound questions with vigorous arguments and clear, colorful writing, aiming not just to advance scholarship but to enlighten readers with no background in science or philosophy. Quantum Philosophy is a profound work of contemporary science and philosophy and an eloquent history of the long struggle to understand the nature of the world and of knowledge itself.

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Roland Omnes is Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Paris-Sud. His books include Understanding Quantum Mechanics and The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (both Princeton).

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"I cannot think of any physicist who has ever embarked on a more ambitious philosophical project."--Jeffrey Alan Barrett, University of California, Irvine


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"I cannot think of any physicist who has ever embarked on a more ambitious philosophical project."--Jeffrey Alan Barrett, University of California, Irvine

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Verlag
Princeton University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0691027870
ISBN 13 
9780691027876
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
328
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