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"An important book, by a philosopher of physics who has played a significant role in disentangling some of the conceptual issues involved in the contemporary debate on incompleteness."--International Studies in Philosophy
"Michael Redhead has given us a fine, hard book that stands head and shoulders above the usual crop."--Canadian Philosophical Review
"A paradigm of the new philosophy of physics...long-awaited, authoritative, and splendid book."--Philosophical Books
"Redhead's book is a useful update of Max Jammer's The Philosophy of Quantum Physics."--New Scientist
"Michael Redhead has given us a fine, hard book that stands head and shoulders above the usual crop."--Canadian Philosophical Review
"A paradigm of the new philosophy of physics...long-awaited, authoritative, and splendid book."--Philosophical Books
"Redhead's book is a useful update of Max Jammer's The Philosophy of Quantum Physics."--New Scientist
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* WINNER OF THE 1988 LAKATOS AWARD FOR AN OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE * This book concentrates on research done during the last twenty years on the philosophy of quantum mechanics. In particular, the author focuses on three major issues: whether quantum mechanics is an incomplete theory, whether it is non-local, and whether it can be interpreted realistically. Much of the book is concerned with distinguishing various senses in which these questions can be taken, and assessing the bewildering variety of answers philosophers and physicists have given up to now. The book is self-contained in that it presents the necessary parts of the mathematical formalism of quantum mechanics and also covers other interpretative topics, such as the problem of measurement and the uncertainty relations. A considerable portion of the book is based on original arguments presented by the author in lectures and research papers over the past ten years. However, this material is integrated with a broad coverage of most of the recent research in the field, so as to provide a balanced introduction to the whole subject.
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This review is from: Incompleteness, Nonlocality, and Realism: A Prolegomenon to the Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics (Clarendon Paperbacks) (Paperback)
This is the Bible for people doing research into the foundations of QM!!
It starts with the basics and it goes very far into the subject - it is still the only book i have found that has the proof of the Kochen-Specker theorem!! I recomend it to anyone that has done QM for a couple of years and still hasnt done the Kochen-Specker theorem, the EPR experiment or the bell inequalities - when people talk about QM being very weird these are what the person is on about - not the wave particle duality, which is only the begining... ... by the way when people talk about schrodinger's cat they usually have that wrong and missunderstand what the point is - the weird thing is not that the cat is both dead and alive at the same time - its that it is NEITHER untill there is a measurement!!!!!!!!!!!
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