Overview
- Provides new perspectives on long-standing metaphysical questions arising in quantum mechanics
- Contributions by physicists - incl. Nobel Prize winner Gerard 't Hooft - science communicators and philosophers
- First book covering quantum indeterminacy and its connection to fundamentality and ontological dependence
Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 460)
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This edited collection provides new perspectives on some metaphysical questions arising in quantum mechanics. These questions have been long-standing and are of continued interest to researchers and graduate students working in physics, philosophy of physics, and metaphysics. It features contributions from a diverse set of researchers, ranging from senior scholars to junior academics, working in varied fields, from physics to philosophy of physics and metaphysics. The contributors reflect on issues about fundamentality (is quantum theory fundamental? If so, what is its fundamental ontology?), ontological dependence (how do ordinary objects exist even if they are not fundamental?), realism (what kind of realism is compatible with quantum theory?), indeterminacy (can the world itself exhibit ontological indeterminacy?).
The book contains contributions from both physicists (including Nobel Prize winner Gerard 't Hooft), science communicators andphilosophers.
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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Realism
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Front Matter
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Ontology
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Front Matter
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The Wave Function
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Front Matter
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Valia Allori has studied physics and philosophy first in Italy, her home country, and then in the United States. She has worked in the foundations of quantum mechanics, with the aim of understanding how we can use our best physical theory to answer general metaphysical questions about the nature of reality. She has been a 2017-18 National Humanities Center Fellow and she is a Fellow of the John Bell Institute for the Foundation of Physics. She is currently Professor in the Philosophy Department of Northern Illinois University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Quantum Mechanics and Fundamentality
Book Subtitle: Naturalizing Quantum Theory between Scientific Realism and Ontological Indeterminacy
Editors: Valia Allori
Series Title: Synthese Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99642-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-99641-3Published: 28 July 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-99644-4Published: 28 July 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-99642-0Published: 27 July 2022
Series ISSN: 0166-6991
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 415
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Science, Quantum Physics, Metaphysics, History of Philosophy, Ontology