Title: Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity: Metaphysical Intimations of Modern Physics, 3rd Edition [Lingua inglese]
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Publication Date: 2011
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1444331272
ISBN 13: 9781444331271
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 3rd Edition
Condition: Very Good

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The third edition of Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity has been carefully updated to reflect significant developments, including a new chapter covering important recent work in the foundations of physics.

A new edition of the premier philosophical study of Bell’s Theorem and its implication for the relativistic account of space and time
Discusses Roderich Tumiulka’s explicit, relativistic theory that can reproduce the quantum mechanical violation of Bell’s inequality.
Discusses the "Free Will Theorem" of John Conway and Simon Kochen
Introduces philosophers to the relevant physics and demonstrates how philosophical analysis can help inform physics

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Tim Maudlin is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He received his doctorate in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Pittsburgh. His work lies at the intersection of physics and philosophy, including the foundations of physics and logic. He is the author of Truth and Paradox (2004) and The Metaphysics within Physics (2007). Maudlin is a member of the Academie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences and a Guggenheim Fellow.

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