Physical Theory and its Interpretation
Subtitle: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey Bub (The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science)
Contributors: William Demopoulos (Editor); Itamar Pitowsky (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: November 29, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9781402048753
Subjects: Philosophy of science; Philosophy & Social Aspects; Science; Philosophy; Science/Mathematics; General; Quantum Theory; INFORMATION; PHYSICS; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM LOGIC; QUANTUM MECHANICS; Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects
Description: The essays in this volume were written by leading researchers on classical mechanics, statistical mechanics, quantum theory and relativity. The papers cover a number of central topics in the foundations of physics, including the role of symmetry principles in classical and quantum physics (papers by Butterfield and by Healey), Einstein's hole argument in general relativity (Korte), quantum mechanics and special relativity (Hemmo and Berkovitz, Brown and Timpson), quantum correlations (Glymour, Redei), quantum logic (Demopoulos, Isham, Stairs), and quantum probability and information (Gudder, Pitowsky). The authors - philosophers, physicists, and mathematicians - represent a broad spectrum of approaches to foundational issues at the frontiersof contemporary research. This befits a volume in honor of Jeffrey Bub, one of the leading philosophers of physics of the last thirty years, whose influence on the field is evident all the essays collected for this volume.