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The Nature of Contingency - Quantum Physics as Modal Realism (Hardcover)
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The Nature of Contingency - Quantum Physics as Modal Realism (Hardcover)
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This book defends a radical new theory of contingency as a physical
phenomenon. Drawing on the many-worlds approach to quantum theory
and cutting-edge metaphysics and philosophy of science, it argues
that quantum theories are best understood as telling us about the
space of genuine possibilities, rather than as telling us solely
about actuality. When quantum physics is taken seriously in the way
first proposed by Hugh Everett III, it provides the resources for a
new systematic metaphysical framework encompassing possibility,
necessity, actuality, chance, counterfactuals, and a host of
related modal notions. Rationalist metaphysicians argue that the
metaphysics of modality is strictly prior to any scientific
investigation; metaphysics establishes which worlds are possible,
and physics merely checks which of these worlds is actual.
Naturalistic metaphysicians respond that science may discover new
possibilities and new impossibilities. This book's quantum theory
of contingency takes naturalistic metaphysics one step further,
allowing that science may discover what it is to be possible. As
electromagnetism revealed the nature of light, as acoustics
revealed the nature of sound, as statistical mechanics revealed the
nature of heat, so quantum physics reveals the nature of
contingency.
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