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The World view of contemporary physics : does it need a new metaphysics? / edited with an introduction by Richard F. Kitchener.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1988.Description: 1 online resource (vi, 185 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585055467
  • 9780585055466
  • 1438409206
  • 9781438409207
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: World view of contemporary physics.DDC classification:
  • 530 19
LOC classification:
  • QC1 .W67 1988eb
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Contents:
Introduction: the world view of contemporary physics: does it need a new metaphysics? / Richard F. Kitchener -- Relation between natural science and metaphysics / Ivor Leclerc -- Quantum theory and the physicist's conception of nature: philosophical implications of Bell's Theorem -- Henry P. Stapp / How to kill Schrodinger's cat / Jeffrey Bub -- Universal quantum / David Finkelstein -- Do the new concepts of space and time require a new metaphysics? / Milic Capek -- Space-time and probability: classical and quantal / Olivier Costa de Beauregard -- Rediscovery of time / Ilya Prigogine -- Role of physics in the current change of paradigms / Fritjof Capra -- Contemporary physics and dialectical holism / Errol E. Harris.
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Papers from a conference held at Colorado State University, Sept. 15-18, 1986.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the world view of contemporary physics: does it need a new metaphysics? / Richard F. Kitchener -- Relation between natural science and metaphysics / Ivor Leclerc -- Quantum theory and the physicist's conception of nature: philosophical implications of Bell's Theorem -- Henry P. Stapp / How to kill Schrodinger's cat / Jeffrey Bub -- Universal quantum / David Finkelstein -- Do the new concepts of space and time require a new metaphysics? / Milic Capek -- Space-time and probability: classical and quantal / Olivier Costa de Beauregard -- Rediscovery of time / Ilya Prigogine -- Role of physics in the current change of paradigms / Fritjof Capra -- Contemporary physics and dialectical holism / Errol E. Harris.

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