The quantum revolution in philosophy /
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2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; The Quantum Revolution in Philosophy; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Figures; List of Boxes; 1: Overview: A New Kind of Science; PART I: QuantumTheory; 2: Superposition; 2.1 Beams; 2.2 Some Interference Phenomena; 2.3 Polarization; 2.4 More Interference Phenomena; 2.5 Modeling Interference; 2.6 Measurement; 2.7 What's Really Happening?; 2.8 Summary; 3: Entanglement; 3.1 What is Entanglement?; 3.2 Entanglement and Incompleteness; 3.3 Entanglement Exhibited; 4: "Non-locality"; 4.1 Spooky Action at a Distance?; 4.2 Mermin's Demonstration
- 4.3 A Simplified Bell Argument4.4 Two Views of a Quantum State; 4.5 Quantum States Offer Prescriptions; 4.6 Exorcising the Spook; 5: Assigning Values and States; 5.1 Making Quantum State Assignments; 5.2 Measurement-free Quantum Probabilities; 5.3 The Grounds of Quantum State Assignments; 6: Measurement; 6.1 The Measurement Problem; 6.2 The EPR Argument Revisited; 7: Interlude: Some Alternative Interpretations; 7.1 Bohmian Mechanics; 7.2 Non-linearTheories; 7.3 Many-outcomesTheories; PART II: Philosophical Revelations; 8: Theories, Models, and Representation; 8.1 Representation and Theories
- 8.2 Applying Quantum Models8.3 Truth, Content, and Objectivity; 9: Probability and Explanation; 9.1 Probability; 9.2 Explanation; 10: Causation and Locality; 10.1 Introduction; 10.2 Relativistic Spatiotemporal Relations; 10.3 Relativistic Chance; 10.4 Chances from Quantum Probabilities; 10.5 Chance, Causation, and Intervention; 10.6 Locality and Local Causality; 11: Observation and Objectivity; 11.1 Introduction; 11.2 Objectivity; 11.3 Wigner's Friend; 11.4 Paradox Resolved; 11.5 Objective Content Secured; 11.6 Independent Verifiability; 11.7 Conclusion: A Limit to Transcendental Objectivity
- 12: Meaning12.1 Introduction; 12.2 Some Novel Quantum Concepts; 12.3 The Content of Magnitude Claims; 12.4 Some Conceptual Mutations; 12.5 The Content of Denoting Terms; 13: Fundamentality; 13.1 Philosophy and Fundamental Physics; 13.2 Entities; 13.3 Properties; 13.4 Laws; 13.5 How Quantum Theory is Fundamental; 14: Conclusion; Appendix A: Operators and the Born Rule; A.1 Vectors and Inner Products; A.2 Operators and the Simple Born Rule; A.3 More About Operators; A.4 Commutation, Compatibility, and the Compound Born Rule; A.5 Density Operators and Mixed States; A.6 Interacting Systems
- Appendix B: Two Arguments Against Naive RealismB.1 First Argument; B.2 Second Argument; Appendix C: A Simple Model of Decoherence; Bibliography; Index