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Quantum Mechanics - An Empiricist View
Fraassen, Bas C. van
Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University
Print publication date: 1991 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online:
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-823980-2
doi:10.1093/0198239807.003.0002
2 Determinism
Bas C. van Fraassen
A sustained discussion of the relation between the concepts of determinism, symmetry, invariance, time, and conservation laws, in general terms.
Keywords:
conservation law
,
determinism
,
invariance
,
symmetry
,
time
doi:10.1093/0198239807.003.0002
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Contents
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Preface
1 What Is Science?
Part I Determinism and Indeterminism in Classical Perspective
2 Determinism
3 Indeterminism and Probability
Part II How the Phenomena Demand Quantum Theory
4 The Empirical Basis of Quantum Theory
5 New Probability Models and Their Logic
Part III Mathematical Foundations
6 The Basic Theory of Quantum Mechanics
7 Composite Systems, Interaction, and Measurement
Part IV Questions of Interpretation
8 Critique of the Standard Interpretation
9 Modal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
10 EPR: When Is a Correlation not a Mystery?
11 The Problem of Identical Particles
12 Identical Particles: Individuation and Modality
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