296pp., xxiii. First published in French, 1994; this copy, first edition in English: '1' in number line. Glossary, pp. 283-289; Name Index, pp. 291-294; Subject Index, pp. 295-296. Black cloth with brilliant gilt lettering on spine. Glossy dustwrapper not price-clipped (no price) with wrap-around background of dark green, purple, light blue wavy features; title lettering in light blue across middle front cover, partly covered in an explosive splash of shades of pink; subtitle in light yellow across very middle front cover, sandwiched between two words of title; author name lettering in light blue across bottom front cover; Tiny wear at cover corner tips and 1/8" tear at rear cover left bottom corner else unqualifiedly As New: Now in Brodart mylar which forgives peccadilloes mightily. Solid copy. Looks Unread. (No previous owner names; no remainder marks; Clean text.).

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Titolo

Quantum Philosophy: Understanding and Interpreting Contemporary Science

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Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ

Data di pubblicazione

1999

Lingua

Inglese

ISBN 10

0691027870

ISBN 13

9780691027876

Rilegatura

Hardcover

Edizione

First Edition in English

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In this magisterial work, Roland Omn�s 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, Omn�s 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? Omn�s 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.

The book opens with an insightful and sweeping account of the main developments in science and the philosophy of knowledge from the pre-Socratic era to the nineteenth century. Omn�s then traces the emergence in modern thought of a fracture between our intuitive, commonsense views of the world and the abstract and--for most people--incomprehensible world portrayed by advanced physics, math, and logic. He argues that the fracture appeared because the insights of Einstein and Bohr, the logical advances of Frege, Russell, and G�del, and the necessary mathematics of infinity of Cantor and Hilbert cannot be fully expressed by words or images only. Quantum mechanics played an important role in this development, as it seemed to undermine intuitive notions of intelligibility, locality, and causality. However, Omn�s argues that common sense and quantum mechanics are not as incompatible as many have thought. In fact, he makes the provocative argument that the "consistent-histories" approach to quantum mechanics, developed over the past fifteen years, places common sense (slightly reappraised and circumscribed) on a firm scientific and philosophical footing for the first time. In doing so, it provides what philosophers have sought through the ages: a sure foundation for human knowledge.

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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"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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