1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452601503321

Autore

Epperson Michael

Titolo

Foundations of relational realism [[electronic resource]] : a topoglogical approach to quantum mechanics and the philosophy of nature / / Michael Epperson and Elias Zafiris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, c2013

ISBN

1-4985-1622-X

0-7391-8033-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (441 p.)

Collana

Contemporary Whitehead studies

Altri autori (Persone)

ZafirisElias <1970->

Disciplina

530.1201

Soggetti

Quantum logic

Quantum theory - Philosophy

Philosophy of nature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

FOUNDATIONS OF RELATIONAL REALISM; Contents; Preface; Part I: Philosophical Foundations of Quantum Relational Realism; Chapter 1-Introduction: Relational Realism: A Program in Speculative Philosophy; 1.1 Bipolar Dualism: Reducing Contrast to Mutually Exclusive Relata; 1.2 Bipolar Dualism and the Scientific Method: The Example of Physical and Philosophical Cosmology; 1.3 The Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness; 1.4 Dipolar Duality: Contrasts of Mutually Implicative Relata; Chapter 2: Substance and Logic in Quantum Mechanics; 2.1 'Liberating' Science from Boolean Logic: A Sisyphean Adventure

2.2 Abandoning the Logic of One World for the Logic of Many Worlds: An Unlikely Liberation2.3 Quantum Mechanics and Boolean Logic; 2.4 Internal Relations in Quantum Mechanics; 2.5 The Compatibility Condition for Logical Causality in Quantum Mechanics; 2.6 Inducing the Global from the Local; 2.7 Decoherence: Causal Relation or Logical Integration?; 2.8 EPR and Quantum Nonlocality; 2.9 Topological Relations vs. Metrical Relations: Quantum Mechanics and Spacetime; 2.10 Substance in Quantum Mechanics: Relational Realism and the Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead



Chapter 3: Predication in Quantum Mechanics3.1 EPR and Decoherence; 3.2 The Problem of Self-Reference in Quantum Systems; 3.3 Quantum Mechanics and the Theory of Logical Types; 3.4 Relations as Relata: From Set-Theoretic Classical Material Objects to Category-Theoretic Quantum Relational Events; 3.5 Summary; Chapter 4: Logical Causality in Quantum Mechanics: A Relational Realist Ontology; 4.1 Internal Relation and Logical Implication in Quantum Mechanics; 4.2 The Compatibility Condition Revisited; 4.3 The Evolution of Potentiality to Probability

4.4 Quantum Events as Dipolar Units of Relation: Their Subjective and Objective Features Are Mutually Implicative4.5 Quantum Mechanics Presupposes Logically Related Actual Occasions; 4.6 Summary; Chapter 5: Integrating Logical Relation and Extensive Relation: Mereotopology and Quantum Mechanics; 5.1 Mereotopological Notions of Internal Relation and Logical Implication; 5.2 Mereotopological Extensive Relations; 5.3 Summary; Interlude; Part II: Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Relational Realism; Chapter 6: Notion of Localization Processes; 6.1 Localization in Physical Theories

6.2 Localization Schemes6.3 The Conceptual Framework of Category Theory; 6.3.1 The Necessity of a Categorical Framework; 6.3.2 Categorical Principles and Terminology; 6.3.3 Universality and Equivalence; 6.4 The Methodology of Uniform Fibrations: Variable Set Presheaves; 6.5 The Localization Role of Topology: Covering Sieves and Sites; Chapter 7: Sheaves of Germs: The Topological Case; 7.1 Localization over a Topological Space; 7.2 Uniform Localization of Observables; 7.3 Gluing Sections and Local-to-Global Compatibility; 7.4 Contextuality: Germs and Stalks of Observable Sheaves

7.5 Completion and Functionalization: Display Bundles

Sommario/riassunto

Foundations of Relational Realism presents an intuitive interpretation of quantum mechanics, based on a revised decoherent histories interpretation, structured within a category theoretic topological formalism. More broadly, as a philosophical enterprise, the authors propose this conceptual framework as a speculative ontological program that includes a rigorous mathematical formalism, providing a coherent and intuitive ontological scheme that is both novel and applicable practically to the physical sciences.



2.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00037117

Autore

WEEMS, Benjamin B.

Titolo

Reform, rebellion and the Heavenly Way / Benjamim B. Weems

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tucson, : University of Arizona, 1966

Descrizione fisica

XI, 122 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

Classificazione

COR V B

Soggetti

COREA - POLITICA - MOVIMENTI RIFORMISTI

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia