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  3. The Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
June 2012
Print publication year:
1989
Online ISBN:
9780511624902
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511624902
Subjects:
Physics and Astronomy, Philosophy of Science, History, Philosophy and Foundations of Physics, Philosophy
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Book description

This is one of the most important books on quantum mechanics to have appeared in recent years. It offers a dramatically new interpretation that resolves puzzles and paradoxes associated with the measurement problem and the behavior of coupled systems. A crucial feature of this interpretation is that a quantum mechanical measurement can be certain to have a particular outcome even when the observed system fails to have the property corresponding to that outcome just prior to the measurement interaction.

Reviews

'In a very careful, subtle, and deeply original piece of work, Healey has … achieved something no one else has been able to do in the sixty-year history of the discussion of quantum mechanics.'

Howard Stein - University of Chicago

'Very well-informed and astute.'

Source: University Press Book News

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