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Peter J. Lewis is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami. He studied physics at Oxford University and philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. His main research interest is how to understand quantum mechanics as a description of the physical world. He has published afficher plus a number of articles in influential journals on various facets of this project. afficher moins

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Lewis offers a survey -- a quite objective one, as far as I can tell -- of what modern-day philosophers have to say about the basics of quantum physics. Regarding QM interpretations, he concentrates on spontaneous-collapse (e.g. GRW), hidden-variable (e.g. Bohm's), and many-worlds (e.g. Everett's) models. These are all psi-ontic models, and readers may be left wondering whether philosophers have yet to perform detailed analyses of modern psi-epistemic models (e.g. the relational interpretation and QBism) as alternative attempts to correct the deficiencies (such as the measurement problem) of the (itself psi-epistemic) Copenhagen interpretation.… (plus d'informations)
 
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fpagan | 1 autre critique | Jul 10, 2017 |
Basically a book about how to rescue material determinism from the spectre of quantum indeterminancy.
 
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jefware | 1 autre critique | Apr 18, 2017 |

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