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Author : Henry Mehlberg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Causality (Physics)
ISBN : 9027707219
Author : S. Mehlberg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400989351
An intermittent but mentally quite disabling illness prevented Henry Mehlberg from becoming recognized more widely as the formidable scholar he was, when at his best. During World War II, he had lived in hiding under the false identity of an egg farmer, when the Nazis occupied his native Poland. After relatively short academic appointments at the University of Toronto and at Princeton University, he taught at the University of Chicago until reaching the age of normal retirement. But partly at the initiative of his Chicago colleague Charles Morris, who had preceded him to a 'post-retirement' profes sorship at the University of Florida in Gainesville, and with the support of Eugene Wigner, he then received an appointment at that University, where he remained until his death in 1979. In Chicago, he organized a discussion group of scholars from that area as a kind of small scale model of the Vienna Circle, which met at his apart ment, where he lived with his first wife Janina, a mathematician. It was during this Chicago period that the functional disturbances from his illness were pronounced and not infrequent. The very unfortunate result was that colleagues who had no prior knowledge of the caliber of his writings in Polish and French or of his very considerable intellectual powers, had little incentive to read his published work, which he had begun to write in English.
Author : S. Mehlberg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400989887
Author : Henry Mehlberg,Robert Sonné Cohen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Causality (Physics).
ISBN : UOM:39015017213136
Author : S Mehlberg,Carolyn R Fawcett,R S Cohen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1980-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 940098989X
Author : Marino Dobrowolny
Publisher : Youcanprint
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9788892649293
This book provides a description of the evolution of the concepts of causality and time through modern physics considering first relativity theories and them quantum mechanics. Relativity, at least in the form given by Einstein, denies reality of past, present and future and does not indicate a time direction. On the other hand a time direction is indicated by all the phenomena we observe including our own existence. Quantum mechanics seems to indicate a different story. It is argued that, because of its non deterministic character, it is capable to indicate an objective time direction. This occurs through the phenomena of wave function collapse and entanglement which are discussed at length.
Author : Wayne C. Myrvold,Joy Christian
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402091070
In July 2006, a major international conference was held at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada, to celebrate the career and work of a remarkable man of letters. Abner Shimony, who is well known for his pioneering contributions to foundations of quantum mechanics, is a physicist as well as a philosopher, and is highly respected among the intellectuals of both communities. In line with Shimony’s conviction that philosophical investigation is not to be divorced from theoretical and empirical work in the sciences, the conference brought together leading theoretical physicists, experimentalists, as well as philosophers. This book collects twenty-three original essays stemming from the conference, on topics including history and methodology of science, Bell's theorem, probability theory, the uncertainty principle, stochastic modifications of quantum mechanics, and relativity theory. It ends with a transcript of a fascinating discussion between Lee Smolin and Shimony, ranging over the entire spectrum of Shimony's wide-ranging contributions to philosophy, science, and philosophy of science.
Author : Peter J. Riggs
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789048124039
There is no sharp dividing line between the foundations of physics and philosophy of physics. This is especially true for quantum mechanics. The debate on the interpretation of quantum mechanics has raged in both the scientific and philosophical communities since the 1920s and continues to this day. (We shall understand the unqualified term ‘quantum mechanics’ to mean the mathematical formalism, i. e. laws and rules by which empirical predictions and theoretical advances are made. ) There is a popular rendering of quantum mechanics which has been publicly endorsed by some well known physicists which says that quantum mechanics is not only 1 more weird than we imagine but is weirder than we can imagine. Although it is readily granted that quantum mechanics has produced some strange and counter-intuitive results, the case will be presented in this book that quantum mechanics is not as weird as we might have been led to believe! The prevailing theory of quantum mechanics is called Orthodox Quantum Theory (also known as the Copenhagen Interpretation). Orthodox Quantum Theory endows a special status on measurement processes by requiring an intervention of an observer or an observer’s proxy (e. g. a measuring apparatus). The placement of the observer (or proxy) is somewhat arbitrary which introduces a degree of subjectivity. Orthodox Quantum Theory only predicts probabilities for measured values of physical quantities. It is essentially an instrumental theory, i. e.
Author : Richard Swinburne
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400969667
The Royal Institute of Philosophy has been sponsoring conferences in alter nate years since 1969. These have from the start been intended to be of interest to persons who are not philosophers by profession. They have mainly focused on interdisciplinary areas such as the philosophies of psychology, education and the social sciences. The volumes arising from these conferences have included discussions between philosophers and distinguished practitioners of other disciplines relevant to the chosen topic. Beginning with the 1979 conference on 'Law, Morality and Rights' and the 1981 conference on 'Space, Time and Causality' these volumes are now constituted as a series. It is hoped that this series will contribute to advancing philosophical understanding at the frontiers of philosophy and areas of interest to non-philosophers. It is hoped that it will do so by writing which reduces technicalities as much as the subject-matter permits. In this way the series is intended to demonstrate that philosophy can be clear and worthwhile in itself and at the same time relevant to the interests of lay people.
Author : S. Mehlberg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1980-11-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9027707219
An intermittent but mentally quite disabling illness prevented Henry Mehlberg from becoming recognized more widely as the formidable scholar he was, when at his best. During World War II, he had lived in hiding under the false identity of an egg farmer, when the Nazis occupied his native Poland. After relatively short academic appointments at the University of Toronto and at Princeton University, he taught at the University of Chicago until reaching the age of normal retirement. But partly at the initiative of his Chicago colleague Charles Morris, who had preceded him to a 'post-retirement' profes sorship at the University of Florida in Gainesville, and with the support of Eugene Wigner, he then received an appointment at that University, where he remained until his death in 1979. In Chicago, he organized a discussion group of scholars from that area as a kind of small scale model of the Vienna Circle, which met at his apart ment, where he lived with his first wife Janina, a mathematician. It was during this Chicago period that the functional disturbances from his illness were pronounced and not infrequent. The very unfortunate result was that colleagues who had no prior knowledge of the caliber of his writings in Polish and French or of his very considerable intellectual powers, had little incentive to read his published work, which he had begun to write in English.
Author : S Mehlberg,Carolyn R Fawcett,R S Cohen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1980-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9400989369
Author : David Bohm
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Science
ISBN : 0812210026
In this classic, David Bohm was the first to offer us his causal interpretation of the quantum theory. Causality and Chance in Modern Physics continues to make possible further insight into the meaning of the quantum theory and to suggest ways of extending the theory into new directions.
Author : Anthony C. Proctor
Publisher : Clink Street Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 1913136442
Many of us harbour deep questions on subjects such as the origin of the universe, the concepts of time and causality, the nature of consciousness and free will, the mind-body problems of philosophy, the relationship between mathematics and physics, and more. Conventional answers will usually be from fundamental physics (often deeply mathematical) or philosophy (often very abstract). This work takes a different view of reality by substituting mathematical determinism for causal determinism, thereby making it clear why mathematics so adequately describes our observations and measurements. It then deconstructs many aspects of experience - all of which taint our supposedly objective study of the universe - to see how they emerge from a timeless block universe. Subjects such as quantum theory, change, choice, probability, thermodynamics, and consciousness all have to be disassembled. The conclusion is consistent with both mathematics and experience, provides an answer that is immune from the question of 'first cause', and yet does not lead to further questions, albeit in an unexpected way.
Author : Hans Reichenbach
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780486137254
Distinguished physicist examines emotive significance of time, time order of mechanics, time direction of thermodynamics and microstatistics, time direction of macrostatistics, time of quantum physics, more. 1971 edition.
Author : Gonzalo Muga,R. Sala Mayato,Inigo Egusquiza
Publisher : Springer
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540734734
The treatment of time in quantum mechanics is still an important and challenging open question in the foundation of the quantum theory. This multi-authored book, written as an introductory guide for newcomers to the subject, as well as a useful source of information for the expert, covers many of the open questions. The book describes the problems, and the attempts and achievements in defining, formalizing and measuring different time quantities in quantum theory.
