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Author:   Alberto Cordero
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2019
Volume:   406
Weight:   0.658kg
ISBN:  

9783030156589

ISBN 10:   3030156583
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   24 August 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction: Philosophers Look at Quantum MechanicsAlberto Cordero Part I: Bell’s Theorem and the Debate on RealismChapter 1: Inseparable TwinsVictor Gomez-Pin Chapter 2: Bell’s Theorem, Realism, and LocalityPeter Lewis Chapter 3: The Universal and the Local in Quantum TheoryTim Maudlin Part II: Ontological Explorations of QMChapter 4: The Reality of the Wavefunction: Old Arguments and NewHarvey Brown Chapter 5: Preliminary Considerations on the Emergence of Space and TimeDavid Albert Chapter 6: Decoherence and OntologyRoland Omnès Chapter 7: Bohmian Mechanics and its Ontological CommitmentsJames Cushing Chapter 8: The Nomological Interpretation of the Wave FunctionAlbert Solé and Carl Hoefer Chapter 9: Scientific Realism Meets the Metaphysics of Quantum MechanicsJuha Saatsi Chapter 10: Structural Realism and the Standard ModelSteven French Part IV: Individuals, Individuation, and QMChapter 11: The Problem of Individualism from Greek Thought to Quantum PhysicsPeter Mittlestatedt Chapter 12: Weyl, Identity, Indiscernibility, RealismOtavio Bueno Part V: Copenhagen Insights RevisitedChapter 13: What is Really There in the Quantum World?Jeffrey Bub Chapter 14: A Foundational Principle for Quantum MechanicsAnton Zeilinger Part VI: Calls to Reconceptualize QMChapter 15: A Reconstruction of Quantum MechanicsSimon Kochen Chapter 16: What is orthodox quantum mechanics?David Wallace

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Alberto Cordero (Ph.D Maryland, M.Phil Cambridge, M.Sc. Oxford, Lic.Sc. UNI): Full Professor of Philosophy and History, City University of New York at the CUNY Graduate Center and Queens College CUNY. Numerary Member of the Academie Internationale de.

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