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Quantum Ontology - A Guide to the Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics (Hardcover)
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Quantum Ontology - A Guide to the Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics (Hardcover)
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Metaphysicians should pay attention to quantum mechanics. Why? Not
because it provides definitive answers to many metaphysical
questions-the theory itself is remarkably silent on the nature of
the physical world, and the various interpretations of the theory
on offer present conflicting ontological pictures. Rather, quantum
mechanics is essential to the metaphysician because it reshapes
standard metaphysical debates and opens up unforeseen new
metaphysical possibilities. Even if quantum mechanics provides few
clear answers, there are good reasons to think that any adequate
understanding of the quantum world will result in a radical
reshaping of our classical world-view in some way or other.
Whatever the world is like at the atomic scale, it is almost
certainly not the swarm of particles pushed around by forces that
is often presupposed. This book guides readers through the theory
of quantum mechanics and its implications for metaphysics in a
clear and accessible way. The theory and its various
interpretations are presented with a minimum of technicality. The
consequences of these interpretations for metaphysical debates
concerning realism, indeterminacy, causation, determinism, holism,
and individuality (among other topics) are explored in detail,
stressing the novel form that the debates take given the empirical
facts in the quantum domain. While quantum mechanics may not
deliver unconditional pronouncements on these issues, the range of
possibilities consistent with our knowledge of the empirical world
is relatively small-and each possibility is metaphysically
revisionary in some way. This book will appeal to researchers,
students, and anybody else interested in how science informs our
world-view.
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