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Quantum Theory and the Flight from Realism Philosophical Responses to Quantum Mechanics
By Christopher Norris
Copyright 2000
276 Pages
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Routledge
280 Pages
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Routledge
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This book is a critical introduction to the long-standing debate concerning the conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics and the problems it has posed for physicists and philosophers from Einstein to the present. Quantum theory has been a major infulence on postmodernism, and presents significant problems for realists. Keeping his own realist position in check, Christopher Norris subjects a... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Is it possible to be a realist about quantum mechanics?; Chapter 2 Quantum theory and the logic of anti-realism; Chapter 3 Bell, Bohm and the EPR debate; Chapter 4 Quantum worlds without end; Chapter 5 Should philosophers take lessons from quantum theory?; Chapter 6 Putnam’s progress; Chapter 7 Can logic be quantum-relativized?; Chapter 8 From Copenhagen to the stars;
Biography
Christopher Norris is Distinguished Research Professor in Philosophy at the University of Cardiff. He is the author of many books on aspects of philosophy and critical theory, among them, most recently, Reclaiming Truth: Contribution to a Critique of Cultural Relativism, Resources of Realism: Prospects for ‘Post-Analytic’ Philosophy’, New Idols of the Cave: On the Limits of Anti-Realism, and Against Relativism: Philosophy of Science, Deconstruction and Critical Theory. His current research interests are in epistemology and philosophy of science.
