Quantum Reality, Relativistic Causality, and Closing the Epistemic Circle
Subtitle: Essays in Honour of Abner Shimony
By: by Wayne C. Myrvold, Joy Christian ; edited by William Demopoulos
Contributors: Christian, Joy; Demopoulos, William; SpringerLink (Online service)
Series: Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science -- 73
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9781402091063; 9781402091070
Subjects: Quantum theory; Science; Philosophy; Relativity (Physics)
Description: "In July 2006, a major international conference was held at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada, to celebrate the career and work of a remarkable man of letters. Abner Shimony, who is well known for his pioneering contributions to foundations of quantum mechanics, is a physicist as well as a philosopher, and is highly respected among the intellectuals of both communities. In line with Shimony's conviction that philosophical investigation is not to be divorced from theoretical and empirical work in the sciences, the conference brought together leading theoretical physicists, experimentalists, as well as philosophers. This book collects twenty-three original essays stemming from the conference, on topics including history and methodology of science, Bell's theorem, probability theory, the uncertainty principle, stochastic modifications of quantum mechanics, and relativity theory. It ends with a transcript of a fascinating discussion between Lee Smolin and Shimony, ranging over the entire spectrum of Shimony's wide-ranging contributions to philosophy, science, and philosophy of science."--Jacket.