Quantum Mechanics and Experience

Name: Quantum Mechanics and Experience
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ISBN: 9780674741133

ISBN-10: 0674741137

ISBN-13: 9780674741133

Edition: 1992

Authors: David Z. Albert

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The more science tells us about the world, the stranger it looks. Ever since physics first penetrated the atom, early in this century, what it found there has stood as a radical and unanswered challenge to many of our most cherished conceptions of nature. It has literally been called into question since then whether or not there are always objective matters of fact about the whereabouts of subatomic particles, or about the locations of tables and chairs, or even about the very contents of our thoughts. A new kind of uncertainty has become a principle of science. This book is an original and provocative investigation of that challenge, as well as a novel attempt at writing about science…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/15/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 222
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.880

David Z Albert is Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University.



Preface



Superposition



The Mathematical Formalism and the Standard Way of Thinking about It



Nonlocality



The Measurement Problem



The Collapse of the Wave Function



The Dynamics by Itself



Bohm's Theory



Self-Measurement


Appendix: The Kochen-Healy-Dieks Interpretations


Bibliography


Index