Quantum Reality, Relativistic Causality, and Closing the Epistemic Circle
Essays in Honour of Abner Shimony
Editors: Myrvold, Wayne C., Christian, Joy (Eds.)
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- Contains a wide range of topics in foundations of physics
- Includes a transcript of a fascinating discussion between Lee Smolin and Shimony, two of the best-known thinkers in these areas
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In July 2006, a major international conference was held at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada, to celebrate the career and work of a remarkable man of letters. Abner Shimony, who is well known for his pioneering contributions to foundations of quantum mechanics, is a physicist as well as a philosopher, and is highly respected among the intellectuals of both communities. In line with Shimony’s conviction that philosophical investigation is not to be divorced from theoretical and empirical work in the sciences, the conference brought together leading theoretical physicists, experimentalists, as well as philosophers. This book collects twenty-three original essays stemming from the conference, on topics including history and methodology of science, Bell's theorem, probability theory, the uncertainty principle, stochastic modifications of quantum mechanics, and relativity theory. It ends with a transcript of a fascinating discussion between Lee Smolin and Shimony, ranging over the entire spectrum of Shimony's wide-ranging contributions to philosophy, science, and philosophy of science.
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Passion at a Distance
Pages 3-11
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Balancing Necessity and Fallibilism: Charles Sanders Peirce on the Status of Mathematics and its Intersection with the Inquiry into Nature
Pages 15-42
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Newton's Methodology
Pages 43-61
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Whitehead's Philosophy and Quantum Mechanics (QM)
Pages 63-68
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Bohr and the Photon
Pages 69-83
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Quantum Reality, Relativistic Causality, and Closing the Epistemic Circle
- Book Subtitle
- Essays in Honour of Abner Shimony
- Editors
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- Wayne C. Myrvold
- Joy Christian
- Series Title
- The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science
- Series Volume
- 73
- Copyright
- 2009
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4020-9107-0
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4020-9107-0
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-4020-9106-3
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-90-481-8072-1
- Series ISSN
- 1566-659X
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XI, 516
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