Quantum Philosophy: Understanding and Interpreting Contemporary SciencePrinceton University Press, 17.03.2002 г. - 296 страници In this magisterial work, Roland Omnès takes us from the academies of ancient Greece to the laboratories of modern science as he seeks to do no less than rebuild the foundations of the philosophy of knowledge. One of the world's leading quantum physicists, Omnès reviews the history and recent development of mathematics, logic, and the physical sciences to show that current work in quantum theory offers new answers to questions that have puzzled philosophers for centuries: Is the world ultimately intelligible? Are all events caused? Do objects have definitive locations? Omnès addresses these profound questions with vigorous arguments and clear, colorful writing, aiming not just to advance scholarship but to enlighten readers with no background in science or philosophy. |
Съдържание
Classical Logic | 6 |
Pythagoras and the Pariah | 7 |
Plato and the Logos | 10 |
The Logic of Aristotle and of Chrysippus | 12 |
The Paradoxes | 16 |
Two Useful Notions | 19 |
The Universals | 20 |
Classical Physics | 23 |
With the Help of an Angel | 170 |
Observables | 173 |
Rudiments of a Quantum Dialect | 174 |
Histories | 177 |
The Role of Probabilities | 178 |
The Logic of the Quantum World | 180 |
Complimentary | 181 |
A Logical Law of Physics | 182 |
The Dawn of Mechanics | 28 |
Newtons Dynamics | 31 |
Waves in the Ether | 36 |
The Beginning of Electromagnetism | 39 |
Maxwells Equations | 41 |
Classical Mathematics | 47 |
Rigor and Profusion in the Nineteenth Century | 53 |
Mathematics and Infinity | 58 |
Classical Philosophy of Knowledge | 62 |
Descartes and Reason | 64 |
Locke and Empiricism | 66 |
Cognition Sciences | 67 |
Humes Pragmatism | 69 |
Kant | 71 |
THE FRACTURE | 79 |
Formal Mathematics | 84 |
Formal Logic | 86 |
Symbols and Sets | 88 |
Proposition | 91 |
Some Remarks Regarding the Truth | 93 |
Taming Infinity | 97 |
Todays Mathematics | 100 |
The Crisis in the Foundation of Set Theory | 102 |
Godels Incompleteness Theorem | 105 |
A Tentative Conclusion | 107 |
The Philosophy of Mathematics | 108 |
Mathematical Realism | 111 |
Nominalism | 116 |
Mathematical Sociologism | 118 |
Mathematics and Physical Reality | 121 |
Formal Physics | 124 |
Relativity | 126 |
The Relativistic Theory of Gravitation | 130 |
The Prehistory of the Atom | 134 |
Classical Physics in a Straitjacket | 138 |
The Assassination of Classical Physics | 140 |
The Harvest of Results | 144 |
The Epistemology of Physics | 147 |
Why Do We Need Interpretation? | 148 |
Uncertainties | 150 |
The Principle of Complementarity | 152 |
The Reduction of the Wave Functions | 155 |
FROM FORMAL BACK TO VISUAL THE QUANTUM CASE | 159 |
Between Logic and Physics | 163 |
The Logic of Comic Sense | 165 |
Classical Dynamics and Determination | 168 |
Rediscovering Common Sense | 184 |
The Logic of Common Sense | 186 |
Determinism | 190 |
A First Philosophical Survey | 193 |
From the Measurable to the Unmeasurable | 196 |
The Decoherence Effect | 199 |
Physical | 202 |
Logical | 204 |
The Direction of Time | 207 |
Measurement Theory | 208 |
Wave Function Reduction Revisited | 209 |
The Chasm | 211 |
Addendum | 215 |
On Realism | 216 |
Quantum Physics and Realism | 221 |
Ordinary Reality | 223 |
Rationality versus Realism | 224 |
The EPR Experiment | 225 |
Bell and Aspect | 227 |
Controversies about Histories | 230 |
Toward a Wider Realism | 233 |
STATE OF THE QUESTION AND PERSPECTIVES | 235 |
A New Beginning | 237 |
The Beginnings of a Philosophy | 239 |
The Religious Temptation and the Sacred | 241 |
What Is Science? | 246 |
On Certain Types of Laws | 248 |
The Transformations of Science | 250 |
Thomas Khan | 252 |
Method | 255 |
Which Method? | 256 |
A FourStage Method | 257 |
The Nature of the Four Stages | 260 |
The Lesson of the Failed Attempts | 261 |
Method and the Social Sciences | 262 |
Consistency and Beauty | 264 |
The Flexibility of Principles | 266 |
The Thing in the World Most Evenly Distributed | 267 |
Vanishing Perspectives | 269 |
Logos | 271 |
The Instauration | 273 |
Founding Science | 278 |
Glossary | 283 |
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