Reality and the Physicist: Knowledge, Duration and the Quantum WorldCambridge University Press, 27 de jan. de 1989 - 280 páginas This book investigates the nature of reality from the viewpoint of a physicist. |
Conteúdo
The positivism of the physicists | 23 |
Positivism and fallibilism philosophical controversies | 37 |
Border areas of instrumentalism | 54 |
Physical realism and contemporary physics | 65 |
Physical realism and fallibilism | 67 |
Microrealism and nonseparability | 83 |
Physical realism in trouble | 96 |
Causality reality and time | 117 |
The dilemma of modern physics reality or meaning? | 155 |
Questions and answers | 174 |
Summary and perspectives | 200 |
On the degree of certainty of empirical claims | 221 |
Two possible kinds of dependence at a distance as gauged by the yardstick of inter subjective agreement | 226 |
Reverse causality should it be called causality or not? | 229 |
Empirical reality empirical causality and the measurement problem | 232 |
Notes | 254 |
Irreversibility | 119 |
Sensible reality | 135 |
Independent reality | 144 |
References | 272 |
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arguments called causality Chapter CHSH inequalities claim classical mechanics classical physics clearly conceivable concepts consequences consider Copenhagen School counterfactual implication course defined described detail deterministic difficulty distinction domain empirical reality ensemble essential example existence experience experimental explain fact fallibilism fallibilist formulated framework fundamental hence human hypothesis idea independent reality induction instrument instrumentalist intersubjective irreversibility kind knowledge laws least logical macroscopic mathematical mathematical realism matter means measurement theories metaphysics method mind nature non-separability noted notion observed operational partial definitions particles particular phenomena philosophers physical quantity physical realism physicists Popper position positivism positivists possible precisely predictions principle of separability priori problem properties purely quantum measurement quantum mechanics quantum physics quantum superposition question reason reference refuted relativistic rules scientific scientists seems seen sense simply space-time statement strong objectivity theoretical thesis things true ultimately valid Vienna Circle violation wave function words