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| ISBN: | 1400812887
9781400812882
9780691027876
0691027870
0691027870
1400822866
9781400822867
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | In this magisterial work, Roland Omnès takes us from the academies of ancient Greece to the laboratories of modern science as he seeks to do no less than rebuild the foundations of the philosophy of knowledge. One of the world's leading quantum physicists, Omnès reviews the history and recent development of mathematics, logic, and the physical sciences to show that current work in quantum theory offers new answers to questions that have puzzled philosophers for centuries: Is the world ultimately intelligible? Are all events caused? Do objects have definitive locations? Omnès addresses these p.
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| Other form: | Print version: Omnes, Roland. Philosophie de la science contemporaine. English. Quantum philosophy. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1999
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