Quantum Mechanics and Experience
$55.19
- Paperback
222 pages
- Release Date
15 March 1994
Summary
The more science tells us about the world, the stranger it looks. Ever since physics first penetrated the atom, early in this century, what it found there has stood as a radical and unanswered challenge to many of our most cherished conceptions of nature. It has literally been called into question since then whether or not there are always objective matters of fact about the whereabouts of subatomic particles, or about the locations of tables and chairs, or even about the very contents of …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780674741133 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0674741137 |
| Author: | David Z. Albert |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
| Imprint: | Harvard University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 222 |
| Release Date: | 15 March 1994 |
| Weight: | 299g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
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Critics Review
This is a wholly original, engaging, and provocative work on the conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics, written in David Albert’s inimitable style.
Over the past two decades, philosophers of physics have worked long and hard…to extract the philosophical pith from the theoretical physics. There are now a number of excellent books which explain the issues at a reasonably advanced level to non-physicists. Albert’s is among the best of the bunch. – David Papineau * Times Literary Supplement *
A lively, lucid, elementary, yet deeply challenging account. The layperson and seasoned philosopher and scientist alike could do no better in their attempts to get out of the quantum muddle than to read this book. – Frank Arntzenius, University of Southern California
This is a wholly original, engaging, and provocative work on the conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics, written in David Albert’s inimitable style. – Jeffrey Bub, University of Maryland
David Z. Albert
David Z Albert is Frederick E. Woodbridge Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University and the author of Quantum Mechanics and Experience, Time and Chance, and After Physics. His writing has appeared in numerous scholarly journals of physics and philosophy, as well as in the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, and Scientific American.
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