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BL
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632204
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Philosophie de la science contemporaine.English
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| Main Entry
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Omnès, Roland.
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| Title & Author
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Quantum philosophy : : understanding and interpreting contemporary science /\ Roland Omnès ; translated by Arturo Sangalli.
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| Publication Statement
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Princeton, N.J. :: Princeton University Press,, ©1999.
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xxiii, 296 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0691027870
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: 9780691027876
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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| Contents
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Pythagoras and the pariah -- Plato and the logos -- The logic of Aristotle and of Chrysippus -- The paradoxes -- Two useful notions -- The universals -- Astronomy, from Hipparchus to Kepler -- The dawn of mechanics -- Newton's dynamics -- Waves in the ether -- The beginning of electromagnetism -- A turning point: Maxwell's equations -- Classical mathematics -- Rigor and profusion in the nineteenth century -- Mathematics and infinity -- Francis Bacon and experience -- Descartes and reason -- Locke and empiricism -- Digression: cognition sciences -- Hume's pragmatism -- Kant -- The age of formalism -- Formal logic -- Symbols and sets -- Propositions -- Some remarks regarding truth -- Taming infinity -- Today's mathematics -- The crisis in the foundations of set theory -- Gödel's incompleteness theorem -- A tentative conclusion.
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What is mathematics? -- Mathematical realism -- Nominalism -- Mathematical sociologism -- Mathematics and physical reality -- The century of formal physics -- Relativity -- The relativistic theory of gravitation -- The prehistory of the atom -- Classical physics in a straitjacket -- The assassination of classical physics -- The harvest of results -- Why do we need interpretation? -- Uncertainties -- The principle of complementarity -- The reduction of the wave function -- The outline of a program -- The logic of common sense -- Classical dynamics and determinism -- With the help of an angel -- Observables -- Rudiments of a quantum dialect -- Histories -- The role of probabilities -- The logic of the quantum world -- Complementarity -- A logical law of physics -- The world on a large scale -- The logic of common sense -- Determinism -- A first philosophical survey.
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The poignant problem of interferences -- The decoherence effect -- The wonders of decoherence: physical -- The wonders of decoherence: logical -- Last wonders: the direction of time -- Measurement theory -- Wave function reduction revisited -- The chasm -- Addendum -- A brief history of realism -- Quantum physics and realism -- Ordinary reality -- Rationality versus realism -- The "EPR" experiment -- Bell and aspect -- Controversies about histories -- Toward a wider realism -- A preliminary report -- The beginnings of a philosophy -- The religious temptation and the sacred.
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Science as representation -- On certain types of laws -- The transformations of science -- Thomas Kuhn -- A method for judging, not for building -- Which method? -- A four-stage method -- The nature of the four stages -- The lesson of the failed attempts -- Method and the social sciences -- Consistency and beauty -- The flexibility of principles -- The thing in the world most evenly distributed -- The theory of knowledge -- Logos -- The instauration -- Founding science.
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| Abstract
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"Roland Omnes 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, Omnes 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? Omnes 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."--Jacket.
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Physics-- Philosophy.
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Mathematics-- Philosophy.
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Science-- Philosophy.
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Quantum theory.
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| LC Classification
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QC6.O55 1999
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