The Metaphysics of Quantum Theory

Henry Krips

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Author
Henry Krips
Publish Date
1988-02-11
Book Type
Hardcover
Number of Pages
272
Publisher Name
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10
0198249713
ISBN-13
9780198249719
citemno
249097
Edition
First Edition
SKU
9780198249719

Description

The interplay between non-relativistic quantum theory and metaphysics has generated radically opposed interpretations for quantum theory: Niels Bohr's "orthodox" interpretation, and Einstein's "realist" approach. This debate in turn fostered the classical first-generation paradoxes of quantum theory: Schrödinger's Cat and the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradoxes. More recently, a range of new paradoxes has emerged from the work of J.S. Bell. This book outlines the contours of these debates and presents an interpretation of quantum theory which, while metaphysically realist, resolves most of the paradoxes.