Laura Ruetsche

Interpreting Quantum Theories

The Art of the Possible

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Produktbeschreibung

Philosophers of quantum mechanics have generally addressed exceedingly simple systems. Laura Ruetsche offers a much-needed study of the interpretation of more complicated systems, and an underexplored family of physical theories, such as quantum field theory and quantum statistical mechanics, showing why they repay philosophical attention.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 398
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9780199535408
• ISBN-10: 019953540X
• Artikelnr.: 32887699

Autorenporträt

As an undergraduate at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, Laura Ruetsche studied physics, philosophy, and classical Greek. A Rhodes Scholarship took her to Oxford, where she wrote a B.Phil. thesis on Plato's Timaeus under the direction of John Ackrill. Shifting her focus to philosophy of physics, she completed her graduate work at the University of Pittsburgh, earning her PhD in 1995 and joining the faculty in 1996. In 2008, she moved to the University of Michigan, where she is now Professor of Philosophy.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Preface
Abbreviations and Symbols
1: Exegesis Saves: Interpreting Physical Theories
2: Quantizing
3: Beyond the Stone-von Neumann Theorem
4: Representation Without Taxation
5: Axioms for Quantum Theories
6: Interpreting Quantum Theories: Some Options
7: Extraordinary QM
8: Interpreting Extraordinary QM
9: Is Particle Physics Particle Physics?
10: Particles and the Void
11: Phenomenological Particle Notions
12: A Matter of Degree: Making Sense of Phase Structure
13: Interlude: Symmetry Breaking in QSM
14: Broken Symmetry and Physicists' QFT
15: Morals?
References