Potentiality, Entanglement and Passion-at-a-Distance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Potentiality, Entanglement and Passion-at-a-Distance write by Robert S. Cohen. This book was released on 1997-06-30. Potentiality, Entanglement and Passion-at-a-Distance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Potentiality, Entanglement and Passion-at-a-Distance is a book for theoretical physicists and philosophers of modern physics. It treats a puzzling and provocative aspect of recent quantum physics: the apparent interaction of certain physical events that cannot share any causal connection. These are said to be `entangled' in some way, but an explanation remains elusive. Abner Shimony - to whom the book is dedicated - and others suggest the need to revive the category of what may be seen as a metaphysical potentiality. Abner has described these events without actions to link them as `passion at a distance': not active, but passive. The discussions gathered here are written by a truly remarkable cast of scientists and philosophers and shed new light on the most profound puzzles of our times.
Potentiality, Entanglement and Passion-at-a-distance
Potentiality, Entanglement and Passion-at-a-distance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Potentiality, Entanglement and Passion-at-a-distance write by Robert Sonné Cohen. This book was released on 1997. Potentiality, Entanglement and Passion-at-a-distance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Entanglement, Information, and the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Entanglement, Information, and the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Entanglement, Information, and the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics write by Gregg Jaeger. This book was released on 2009-06-12. Entanglement, Information, and the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Entanglement was initially thought by some to be an oddity restricted to the realm of thought experiments. However, Bell’s inequality delimiting local - havior and the experimental demonstration of its violation more than 25 years ago made it entirely clear that non-local properties of pure quantum states are more than an intellectual curiosity. Entanglement and non-locality are now understood to ?gure prominently in the microphysical world, a realm into which technology is rapidly hurtling. Information theory is also increasingly recognized by physicists and philosophers as intimately related to the foun- tions of mechanics. The clearest indicator of this relationship is that between quantum information and entanglement. To some degree, a deep relationship between information and mechanics in the quantum context was already there to be seen upon the introduction by Max Born and Wolfgang Pauli of the idea that the essence of pure quantum states lies in their provision of probabilities regarding the behavior of quantum systems, via what has come to be known as the Born rule. The signi?cance of the relationship between mechanics and information became even clearer with Leo Szilard’s analysis of James Clerk Maxwell’s infamous demon thought experiment. Here, in addition to examining both entanglement and quantum infor- tion and their relationship, I endeavor to critically assess the in?uence of the study of these subjects on the interpretation of quantum theory.
Rescuing Reason
Rescuing Reason - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rescuing Reason write by R. Nola. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Rescuing Reason available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Do knowledge and science arise from the application of canons of rationality and scientific method? Or is all our scientific knowledge caused by socio-political factors, or by our interests in the socio-political - the view of sociologists of "knowledge"? Or does it result from interplay of relations of power - the view of Michel Foucault? Or does our knowledge arise from "the will to power" - the view of Nietzsche? This volume sets out to critically examine the theses of those who would debunk the idea of rational explanation. The book is wide-ranging. The theories of method of Quine, Kuhn, Feyerabend (amongst others) are discussed and related to the views of Marx, Foucault, Wittgenstein and Nietzsche as well as sociologists of science such as Mannheim and Bloor. The author provides a wide interpretative framework which links the doctrines espoused by many of these authors; it is argued that they inherit many of the difficulties in the Strong Programme in the sociology of "knowledge", and that they fail to reconcile the normativity of knowledge with their naturalism. It is argued that neither relativists, sceptics, nihilists, sociologists of "knowledge" nor the postmodernists successfully debunk the claims of rational explanation, far from it: these theorists presuppose much of the theory of methodology they deny.
Non-Reflexive Logics, Non-Individuals, and the Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics
Non-Reflexive Logics, Non-Individuals, and the Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Non-Reflexive Logics, Non-Individuals, and the Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics write by Jonas R. B. Arenhart. This book was released on 2023-09-05. Non-Reflexive Logics, Non-Individuals, and the Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book discusses the philosophical work of Décio Krause. Non-individuality, as a new metaphysical category, was thought to be strongly supported by quantum mechanics. No one did more to promote this idea than the Brazilian philosopher Décio Krause, whose works on the metaphysics and logic of non-individuality are now widely regarded as part of the consolidated literature on the subject. This volume brings together chapters elaborating on the ideas put forward and defended by Krause, developing them in many different directions, commenting on aspects not completely developed so far, and, more importantly, critically addressing their current formulations and defenses by Krause himself. Given that Krause’s ideas do connect directly and indirectly with a wide array of subjects, such as the philosophy of quantum mechanics, more broadly understood, the philosophy of logic and logical philosophy, non-classical logics, metaphysics, and ontology, this volume contains important material for the research on logic and foundations of science, broadly understood. All the invited contributors have already worked with the ideas developed by Décio (some of them still work with them), being also distinct authors and extremely relevant in their areas of expertise. The volume is aimed at philosophers, including those of physics and quantum mechanics.
