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Reality and the Physicist: Knowledge, Duration and the Quantum World
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Reality and the Physicist: Knowledge, Duration and the Quantum World Paperback - 1989

by Bernard D'Espagnat; J. C. Whitehouse (Translator)


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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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Nowadays, chemists would be among the first to acknowledge that it is in the field of physics, and more precisely of quantum physics, that the theoretical and conceptual foundations of their discipline are to be found.

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  • Title Reality and the Physicist: Knowledge, Duration and the Quantum World
  • Author Bernard D'Espagnat; J. C. Whitehouse (Translator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 284
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
  • Date January 27, 1989
  • ISBN 9780521338462 / 0521338468
  • Weight 0.92 lbs (0.42 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.98 x 5.98 x 0.59 in (22.81 x 15.19 x 1.50 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Physics - Philosophy, Reality
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 88003658
  • Dewey Decimal Code 530.01
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