This book compares various approaches to the interpretation of quantum mechanics, in particular those which are related to the key words "the Copenhagen interpretation", "the antirealist view", "quantum logic" and "hidden variable theory". Using the concept of "correlation" carefully analyzed in the context of classical probability and in quantum theory, the author provides a framework to compare these approaches. He also develops an extension of probability theory to construct a local hidden variable theory. The book should be of interest for physicists and philosophers of science interested in the foundations of quantum theory.

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Book Title: Quantum Probability — Quantum Logic
Authors: Itamar Pitowsky
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0021186
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1989
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-13735-2Published: 17 April 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-46070-1Published: 13 November 2005
Series ISSN: 0075-8450
Series E-ISSN: 1616-6361
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 210
Topics: Quantum Physics, Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes, Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

Classical correlation polytopes and propositional logic

Quantum correlations

Quantum logic

Hidden variables and Kolmogorovian models

Philosophical remarks

Back Matter

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