On Physics and PhilosophyPrinceton University Press, 2006 - 503 pagina's Among the great ironies of quantum mechanics is not only that its conceptual foundations seem strange even to the physicists who use it, but that philosophers have largely ignored it. Here, Bernard d'Espagnat argues that quantum physics--by casting doubts on once hallowed concepts such as space, material objects, and causality-demands serious reconsideration of most of traditional philosophy.
The author begins by describing recent discoveries in quantum physics such as nonseparability, and explicating the significance of contemporary developments such as decoherence. Then he proceeds to set various philosophical theories of knowledge--such as materialism, realism, Kantism, and neo-Kantism--against the conceptual problems quantum theory raises. His overall conclusion is that while the physical implications of quantum theory suggest that scientific knowledge will never truly describe mind-independent reality, the notion of such an ultimate reality--one we can never access directly or rationally and which he calls "veiled reality"--remains conceptually necessary nonetheless. |
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CHAPTER | 14 |
CHAPTER 1 | 21 |
Overstepping the Limits of the Framework of Familiar Concepts | 32 |
CHAPTER 3 | 51 |
CHAPTER 4 | 77 |
Objectivity and Empirical Reality | 89 |
CHAPTER 5 | 113 |
CHAPTER 6 | 134 |
CHAPTER 13 | 282 |
Causality and Observational Predictability | 312 |
CHAPTER 15 | 333 |
CHAPTER 16 | 354 |
CHAPTER 19 | 368 |
CHAPTER 17 | 376 |
CHAPTER 18 | 405 |
The Ground of Things | 429 |
CHAPTER 7 | 152 |
CHAPTER 8 | 168 |
CHAPTER 9 | 196 |
CHAPTER 10 | 225 |
CHAPTER 11 | 249 |
CHAPTER 12 | 265 |
APPENDIX 1 | 465 |
APPENDIX 2 | 477 |
APPENDIX 3 | 483 |
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