Language, Quantum, Music

AvMaria Luisa Dalla Chiara,Roberto Giuntini

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

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Beskrivning

A vivid and comprehensive picture of the current state of research in all directions of logic and philosophy of science. The book presents a wide combination of papers containing relevant technical results in the foundations of science and papers devoted to conceptual analyses, deeply rooted in advanced present-day research. Audience: The volume is attractive both for specialists in foundational questions and scholars interested in general epistemology.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2010-12-08
Mått:160 x 240 x 20 mm
Vikt:868 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Synthese Library
Antal sidor:344
Förlag:Springer
ISBN:9789048152292

Utforska kategorier

Fysik inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion
Kvantfysik inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Innehållsförteckning

I: Epistemology and Philosophy of Language.- Realism, Idealism, and General Terms.- From Formal Machine to Social Colony: Toward a Complex Dynamical Philosophy of Science.- Observation and Reliable Detection.- Conceptual Idealism and Stove’s Gem.- Holism in Artifical Intelligence.- II: Philosophy of Probability.- Model Selection for Causal Theories.- Nonstandard Analysis and a Classification of Probability Spaces.- Some Remarks on Objective Chance (F.P. Ramsey, K.R. Popper and N.R. Campbell).- Misapprehensions about Significance Tests and Bayesianism.- III: Philosophy and Foundations of Physics.- The Quantum Probabilistic Approach to the Foundations of Quantum Theory: Urns and Chamaleons.- The Creation-Discovery-View: Towards a Possible Explanation of Quantum Reality.- Virtual Reality: Consequences of No-Go Theorems for the Modal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.- Is Chaos Indeterministic?.- Wormholes and Timelike Curves: Is There Room for the Grandfather Paradox?.- John von Neumann met Kurt Gödel: Undecidable Statements in Quantum Mechanics.- Set-Theoretical Models for Quantum Systems.- Non-Ideal Measurements and Physical Possibility in Quantum Mechanics.- Time, Relativity, and the Spatiality of Mental Events.- Bell-Type Inequalities and Orthomodular Lattices.- An Informal Presentation of Semantic Realism and Its Solution of Quantum Paradoxes.- Individualistic Versus Statistical Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.- The Locality Scandal of Quantum Mechanics.- Uncertainty and Dependence in Classical and Quantum Logic — the Role of Triangular Norms.- Quantum Logics and Quantum Measurements.- Attempt at the Logical Explanation of the Wave-particle duality.- IV: History of Science.- The Bohr-Einstein Photon Box Debate.- Kantianism and Physics from the 19th to the20th Century.- V: Science and Music.- Epimoric Ratios and Greek Musical Theory.- Music and Science.