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Interpreting Quantum Theories (Hardcover)
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Interpreting Quantum Theories (Hardcover)
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Traditionally, philosophers of quantum mechanics have addressed
exceedingly simple systems: a pair of electrons in an entangled
state, or an atom and a cat in Dr. Schrodinger's diabolical device.
But recently, much more complicated systems, such as quantum fields
and the infinite systems at the thermodynamic limit of quantum
statistical mechanics, have attracted, and repaid, philosophical
attention. Interpreting Quantum Theories has three entangled aims.
The first is to guide those familiar with the philosophy of
ordinary QM into the philosophy of 'QM infinity', by presenting
accessible introductions to relevant technical notions and the
foundational questions they frame. The second aim is to develop and
defend answers to some of those questions. Does quantum field
theory demand or deserve a particle ontology? How (if at all) are
different states of broken symmetry different? And what is the
proper role of idealizations in working physics? The third aim is
to highlight ties between the foundational investigation of QM
infinity and philosophy more broadly construed, in particular by
using the interpretive problems discussed to motivate new ways to
think about the nature of physical possibility and the problem of
scientific realism.
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