LEADER 04751nam 2200745 a 450 001 9910455015603321 005 20210916031940.0 010 $a1-4008-1740-4 010 $a1-4008-2286-6 010 $a1-4008-1288-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400822867 035 $a(CKB)111056486501388 035 $a(EBL)1354790 035 $a(OCoLC)876507244 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000231358 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11207802 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000231358 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10205505 035 $a(PQKB)11134886 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1354790 035 $a(OCoLC)51575473 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36243 035 $a(DE-B1597)447908 035 $a(OCoLC)1002060991 035 $a(OCoLC)979757315 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400822867 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1354790 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10031888 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL511809 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486501388 100 $a19980828d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aQuantum philosophy$b[electronic resource] $eunderstanding and interpreting contemporary science /$fRoland Omne?s ; translated by Arturo Sangalli 205 $aCore Textbook 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc1999 215 $a1 online resource (321 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-09551-5 311 0 $a0-691-02787-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$tPrelude --$tPART ONE. THE LEGACY --$tPART TWO. THE FRACTURE --$tPART THREE. FROM FORMAL BACK TO VISUAL: THE QUANTUM CASE --$tPART FOUR. STATE OF THE QUESTION AND PERSPECTIVES --$tGlossary --$tName Index --$tSubject Index 330 $aIn this magisterial work, Roland Omnès 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 world's leading quantum physicists, Omnès 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? Omnès 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. The book 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. Omnès 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 Gödel, 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, Omnès 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. 606 $aPhysics$xPhilosophy 606 $aMathematics$xPhilosophy 606 $aScience$xPhilosophy 606 $aQuantum theory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPhysics$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aMathematics$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aScience$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aQuantum theory. 676 $a530/.01 700 $aOmne?s$b Roland$0345700 701 $aSangalli$b Arturo$0117957 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455015603321 996 $aQuantum philosophy$92446049 997 $aUNINA