From physics to philosophy
By: edited by Jeremy Butterfield and Constantine Pagonis.
Contributors: Redhead, Michael.; Butterfield, Jeremy.; Pagonis, Constantine.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Cambridge, U.K; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
Subjects: Physics -- Philosophy -- Congresses; Quantum theory -- Congresses; Relativity (Physics) -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Description: "This collection of essays by leading philosophers of physics offers philosophical perspectives on two of the central elements of modern physics, quantum theory and relativity. The topics examined include the notorious 'measurement problem' of quantum theory and the attempts to solve it by attributing extra values to physical quantities, the mysterious nonlocality of quantum theory, the curious properties of spatial localization in relativistic quantum theories, and the problem of time in the search for a theory of quantum gravity. Together the essays represent some of the most recent research in philosophy of physics, and break new ground within the philosophy of quantum theory."--Jacket.
Notes: "The conference was held on the occasion of Michael Redhead's retirement from ... the University of Cambridge."--P. ix.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

"Bibliography of the writings of Michael Redhead"--P. 224.
Table of contents: title: Locality and the Hardy theorem / Arthur Fine; title: Beables in algebraic quantum theory / Rob Clifton; title: Aspects of objectivity in quantum mechanics / Harvey Brown; title: The 'beables' of relativistic pilot-wave theory / Simon Saunders; title: Bohmian mechanics and chaos / James Cushing and Gary Bowman; title: Strange positions / Gordon Fleming and Jeremy Butterfield; title: From metaphysics to physics / Gordon Belot and John Earman; title: Models and mathematics in physics : the role of group theory / Steven French; title: Can the fundamental laws of nature be the results of evolution? / Abner Shimony.