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Quantum Structures and the Nature of Reality

The Indigo Book of `Einstein Meets Magritte'

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  • © 1999

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Editors:
  1. Diederik Aerts

    1. Brussels Free University, Belgium
      University of Gdansk, Poland

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  2. Jarosław Pykacz

    1. Brussels Free University, Belgium
      University of Gdansk, Poland

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. A Half-Century of Quantum Logic What Have We Learned?

    • David J. Foulis
    Pages 1-36

  3. Quantum Mechanical Measurements

    • Stanley Gudder
    Pages 37-51

  4. From Logic to Physics: The Logico-Algebraic Foundations of Quantum Theory

    • Gianpiero Cattaneo, Frederico Laudisa
    Pages 53-65

  5. Non-Classical Logics, Non-Classical Sets, and Non-Classical Physics

    • Jarosław Pykacz
    Pages 67-101

  6. Against “Paradoxes”: A New Quantum Philosophy for Quantum Mechanics

    • Claudio Garola
    Pages 103-140

  7. Quantum Mechanics: Structures, Axioms and Paradoxes

    • Diederik Aerts
    Pages 141-205

  8. Orthogonality Relations: From Classical to Quantum

    • Thomas Durt
    Pages 207-223

  9. Quantum Logical Semantics, Historical Truths and Interpretations in Art

    • Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara, Roberto Giuntini
    Pages 225-234

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 235-239
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Quantum Structures and the Nature of Reality is a collection of papers written for an interdisciplinary audience about the quantum structure research within the International Quantum Structures Association. The advent of quantum mechanics has changed our scientific worldview in a fundamental way. Many popular and semi-popular books have been published about the paradoxical aspects of quantum mechanics. Usually, however, these reflections find their origin in the standard views on quantum mechanics, most of all the wave-particle duality picture. Contrary to relativity theory, where the meaning of its revolutionary ideas was linked from the start with deep structural changes in the geometrical nature of our world, the deep structural changes about the nature of our reality that are indicated by quantum mechanics cannot be traced within the standard formulation. The study of the structure of quantum theory, its logical content, its axiomatic foundation, has been motivated primarily by the search for their structural changes. Due to the high mathematical sophistication of this quantum structure research, no books have been published which try to explain the recent results for an interdisciplinary audience. This book tries to fill this gap by collecting contributions from some of the main researchers in the field. They reveal the steps that have been taken towards a deeper structural understanding of quantum theory.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Brussels Free University, Belgium

    Diederik Aerts, Jarosław Pykacz

  • University of Gdansk, Poland

    Diederik Aerts, Jarosław Pykacz

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