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Physical Theory and its Interpretation

Essays in Honor of Jeffrey Bub

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  • © 2006

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  1. William Demopoulos

    1. University of Western Ontario, Ontario, Canada
      University of California, Irvine, U.S.A.

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  2. Itamar Pitowsky

    1. Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

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  • Celebrates the research of one of the leading philosphers of physics of the last thirty years
  • Combines contributions of philosphers, mathematicians and physicists to foundational and interpretive problems of physics
  • Contains authoritative essays by leading researchers on classical mechanics, statistical mechanics, quantum theory and relativity

Part of the book series: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science (WONS, volume 72)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-IX
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  2. A New Modal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics in Terms of Relational Properties

    • Joseph Berkovitz, Meir Hemmo
    Pages 1-28

  3. Why Special Relativity Should Not Be a Template for a Fundamental Reformulation of Quantum Mechanics

    • Harvey R. Brown, Christopher G. Timpson
    Pages 29-42

  4. On Symmetry and Conserved Quantities in Classical Mechanics

    • Jeremy Butterfield
    Pages 43-100

  5. On the Notion of a Physical Theory of an Incompletely Knowable Domain

    • William Demopoulos
    Pages 101-116

  6. Markov Properties and Quantum Experiments

    • Clark Glymour
    Pages 117-126

  7. Quantum Entropy

    • Stan Gudder
    Pages 127-142

  8. Symmetry and the Scope of Scientific Realism

    • Richard Healey
    Pages 143-160

  9. Is it True; or is it False; or Somewhere in Between? The Logic of Quantum Theory

    • C.J. Isham
    Pages 161-182

  10. Einstein's Hole Argument and Weyl's Field-body Relationalism

    • Herbert Korté
    Pages 183-212

  11. Quantum Mechanics as a Theory of Probability

    • Itamar Pitowsky
    Pages 213-240

  12. John Von Neumann on Quantum Correlations

    • Miklós Rédei
    Pages 241-252

  13. Kriske, Tupman and Quantum Logic: The Quantum Logician's Conundrum

    • Allen Stairs
    Pages 253-272

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 273-283
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About this book

JeffandImetwhenIwasagraduatestudentattheUniversityofMinnesotaandhewas a post doctoral fellow, first in the Chemistry Department, and then in the Center for Philosophy of Science. Later we were colleagues atWestern Ontario. Our friendship and collaboration owe a great deal to both these institutions. In the mid-1960s the Center enjoyed great success under Feigl’s directorship. The history of the Center has been only very partially documented. Feyerabend’s recollections,reportedinhisAutobiography,andsomeyearsearlierinhisremarksfor Feigl’s Festschrift, possess an immediacy that makes them particularly noteworthy, even if all too brief. The Center was the first American institution of its kind and a bastion of positivist and neo-positivist thought. At the time Jeff and I were there, the staff included, in addition to Feigl and Maxwell, Paul Meehl, Roger Steuwer and Keith Gunderson. There were many enthusiastic graduate students, and there was participation, on occasion, from the members of the Philosophy Department, as well as the departments of physics, psychology, mathematics and chemistry. The extent to which this (to us ideal) environment was held together by the force of Feigl’s personality became evident only many years later. The political liberalism of the Viennese Positivists was very much reflected in the philosophicalatmosphereFeiglcreated,anatmospherethatwasmarkedbyopenness, collegiality and intellectual freedom. Combined with its excellent permanent faculty and steady stream of distinguished visitors, the Center was especially well-suited to Jeff’s and my early friendship, our analytic and speculative interests, and our early collaboration.This collaboration was continued when we were members of the Philosophy Department at Western Ontario.

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“This book presents a thorough discussion that will help one to develop a more satisfying perspective of quantum mechanics. … This book is very comprehensive and … I liked it a lot and found it well worth reading.” (Philosophy, Religion and Science Book Reviews, bookinspections.wordpress.com, May, 2014)

"This book is a homage to Jeffery Bub, with twelve contributions from colleagues and friends– philosophers, physicists and mathematicians–working in the foundations and philosophy of modern physics. … this book holds something of interest for philosophers and physicists alike who are interested in the philosophical problems of modern physics. The expositions are generally of high quality, and the book makes for very interesting and, in places even entertaining reading." (Paul Busch, Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, Vol. 40, 2009)

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Western Ontario, Ontario, Canada

    William Demopoulos

  • University of California, Irvine, U.S.A.

    William Demopoulos

  • Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

    Itamar Pitowsky

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