Description: Quantum Philosophy : Understanding and Interpreting Contemporary Science, Paperback by Omnes, Roland; Sangalli, Arturo (TRN), ISBN 0691095515, ISBN-13 9780691095516, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
In this magisterial work, Roland Omns takes us from the academies of ancient Greece to the laboratories of modern science as he seeks to do no less than rebuild the foundations of the philosophy of knowledge. One of the worlds leading quantum physicists, Omns reviews the history and recent development of mathematics, logic, and the physical sciences to show that current work in quantum theory offers new answers to questions that have puzzled philosophers for centuries: Is the world ultimately intelligible? Are all events caused? Do objects have definitive locations? Omns addresses these profound questions with vigorous arguments and clear, colorful writing, aiming not just to advance scholarship but to enlighten readers with no background in science or philosophy.
Th opens with an insightful and sweeping account of the main developments in science and the philosophy of knowledge from the pre-Socratic era to the nineteenth century. Omns then traces the emergence in modern thought of a fracture between our intuitive, commonsense views of the world and the abstract and--for most people--incomprehensible world portrayed by advanced physics, math, and logic. He argues that the fracture appeared because the insights of Einstein and Bohr, the logical advances of Frege, Russell, and Gdel, and the necessary mathematics of infinity of Cantor and Hilbert cannot be fully expressed by words or images only. Quantum mechanics played an important role in this development, as it seemed to undermine intuitive notions of intelligibility, locality, and causality. However, Omns argues that common sense and quantum mechanics are not as incompatible as many have thought. In fact, he makes the provocative argument that the "consistent-histories" approach to quantum mechanics, developed over the past fifteen years, places common sense (slightly reappraised and circumscribed) on a firm scientific and philosophical footing for the first time. In doing so, it provides what philosophers have sought through the ages: a sure foundation for human knowledge.
Quantum Philosophy is a profound work of contemporary science and philosophy and an eloquent history of the long struggle to understand the nature of the world and of knowledge itself.
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Book Title: Quantum Philosophy : Understanding and Interpreting Contemporary
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Name: Quantum Philosophy : Understanding and Interpreting Contemporary Science
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Item Height: 0.7 in
Subject: Physics / Quantum Theory, Philosophy & Social Aspects, History & Philosophy, Physics / General
Publication Year: 2002
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Item Length: 9.5 in
Author: Roland Omnès
Subject Area: Mathematics, Science
Item Width: 6.6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
