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On physics and philosophy
- Title
- On physics and philosophy / Bernard d'Espagnat.
- Author
- Espagnat, Bernard d'.
- Publication
- Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, c2006.
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Details
- Description
- ix, 503 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Uniform Title
- Traité de physique et de philosophie. English
- Alternative Title
- Traité de physique et de philosophie.
- Subjects
- Note
- Originally published in French as Traité de physique et de philosophie by Librarie Arthème Fayard, Paris, 2002--T.p. verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [485]-491) and indexes.
- Contents
- Part 1: Physical facts and related conceptual problems. Broad overview -- Overstepping the limits of the framework of familiar concepts -- Nonseparability and Bell's Theorem -- Objectivity and empirical reality -- Quantum physics and realism -- Universal laws and the "reality" question -- Antirealism and physics; the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen problem; methodological operationalism -- Measurement and decoherence, universality revisited -- Various realist attempts -- Schrödinger's cat, Wigner's friend, and veiled reality -- Part 2: A philosophical analysis. Science and philosophy -- Materialisms -- Suggestions from Kantism -- Causality and observational predictability -- Explanation and phenomena -- Mind and things -- Pragmatic-transcendental versus veiled reality approaches -- Objects and consciousness -- The "ground of things" -- Appendix 1: The Bell Theorem -- Appendix 2: Consistent histories, counterfactuality, and Bell's Theorem -- Appendix 3: Correlation-at-a-distance in the Broglie-Bohm model.
- Call Number
- JSE 06-1609
- ISBN
- 0691119643
- 9780691119649
- LCCN
- 9780691119649
- OCLC
- 72807372
- Author
- Espagnat, Bernard d'.
- Title
- On physics and philosophy / Bernard d'Espagnat.
- Imprint
- Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, c2006.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [485]-491) and indexes.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9780691119649
- Research Call Number
- JSE 06-1609