Quantum measurement : beyond paradox / edited by Richard A. Healey and Geoffrey Hellman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Healey, Richard.

Hellman, Geoffrey.

Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science.

Series:

Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 17.

Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quantum theory--Congresses.

Quantum theory.

Physical measurements--Congresses.

Physical measurements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

With relativity theory, quantum mechanics stands as the conceptual foundation of modern physics. Editors Richard A. Healey and Geoffrey Hellman marshal the resources of leading physicists and philosophers of science, skillfully joining their insights and ingenuity to yield some of the most innovative and altogether promising thought to date on this enigmatic issue.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Macroscopic Realism: What Is It, and What Do We Know about It from Experiment?; Comments on Leggett's ""Macroscopic Realism""; The Bare Theory Has No Clothes; ""Modal"" Interpretations, Decoherence, and the Quantum Measurement Problem; Interpreting the Existential Interpretation; State Preparation in the Modal Interpretation; Expanding the Property Ascriptions in the Modal Interpretation of Quantum Theory; Preferred Factorizations and Consistent Property Attribution; On the Plurality of Dynamics: Transition Probabilities and Modal Interpretations

Varieties of Quantum MeasurementContributors; Index

Notes:

Based on a workshop held by the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Minnesota in May 1995.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8873-7

OCLC:

236343199

Publisher Number:

9780816630653