Description
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.
Author: Tim Maudlin
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 05/06/2011
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781444331271
ISBN10: 1444331272
BISAC Categories:
- Science | Philosophy & Social Aspects
- Science | Physics | General
- 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
Author: Tim Maudlin
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 05/06/2011
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781444331271
ISBN10: 1444331272
BISAC Categories:
- Science | Philosophy & Social Aspects
- Science | Physics | General
About the Author
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.