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Reality and the Physicist: Knowledge, Duration and the Quantum World

By Bernard D'Espagnat

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1989
ISBN
052132940X, 9780521329408
LCC
QC6.4.R42 E8713 1989
Open Library ID
OL2528325M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4466014 bytes)
Pages
280\280
Orientation
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

Contemporary physics, especially quantum theory, has raised profound questions about the relationship between the methods of science and the reality these methods seek to investigate. D'Espagnat investigates these questions as well as how we should answer them. Part I examines the practices of contemporary physicists and addresses the criticism philosophers of science have made of these practices. The doctrine of physical realism, adopted by most physicists and many philosophers of science, comprises Part II. Part III explores the consequences of physical realism for our understanding of what science can seek to know of reality, and concludes by outlining the position contemporary physics indicates we should take.

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