Reality and the physicist : knowledge, duration, and the quantum world /
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| Author / Creator: | Espagnat, Bernard d' |
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| Uniform title: | Incertaine réalité. English |
| Imprint: | Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989. |
| Description: | 280 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English French |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/970452 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I. Instrumentalism and Science
- 1. The positivism of the physicists
- 2. Positivism and fallibilism: philosophical controversies
- 3. Border areas of instrumentalism
- Part II. Physical Realism and Contemporary Physics
- 4. Physical realism and fallibilism
- 5. Microrealism and non-separability
- 6. Physical realism in trouble
- Part III. Causality, Reality and Time
- 7. Irreversibility
- 8. Sensible reality
- 9. Independent reality
- 10. The dilemma of modern physics: reality or meaning?
- 11. Questions and answers
- 12. Summary and perspectives
- Appendixes
- Addendum
- Notes
- References
- Index
