The Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics
The Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics
£40.00
GBPThis is one of the most important books on quantum mechanics to have appeared in recent years. It offers a dramatically new interpretation that resolves puzzles and paradoxes associated with the measurement problem and the behavior of coupled systems. A crucial feature of this interpretation is that a quantum mechanical measurement can be certain to have a particular outcome even when the observed system fails to have the property corresponding to that outcome just prior to the measurement interaction.
Reviews & endorsements
'In a very careful, subtle, and deeply original piece of work, Healey has … achieved something no one else has been able to do in the sixty-year history of the discussion of quantum mechanics.' Howard Stein, University of Chicago
'Very well-informed and astute.' University Press Book News
Product details
March 1991Paperback
9780521408745
288 pages
216 × 141 × 23 mm
0.396kg
Available
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Overview
- 2. Dynamical states
- 3. Measurement and quantum states
- 4. Coupled systems
- 5. Metaphysical aspects
- 6. Alternatives compared
- 7. Open questions
- Appendix
- Selected bibliography
- Index.
