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Physics and Speculative Philosophy : Potentiality in Modern Science / ed. by Timothy E. Eastman, Michael Epperson, David Ray Griffin.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Process Thought ; 27Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (VI, 275 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110449754
  • 9783110450477
  • 9783110451818
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 530.01 22/ger
LOC classification:
  • QC6
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Physics And Speculative Philosophy -- Section I: Potentiality In Modern Science -- Potentiality In Natural Philosophy -- Res Potentia And Res Extensa Linked, Hence United, By Quantum Measurement -- Section II: Relational Realism -- Bridging Necessity And Contingency In Quantum Mechanics -- Boolean Localization Of Quantum Events -- A Logical Analysis Of Relational Realism -- Section III: Process Physics -- On The Foundations Of Process Physics -- Process Physics: Self-Referential Information And Experiential Reality -- On “Process Physics” -- Section IV: Speculative Philosophy And Physics -- Limitations, Approximations And Reality -- Whiteheadian Physics: Its Implications For Time, Consciousness, And Freedom -- Index
Summary: Through both an historical and philosophical analysis of the concept of possibility, we show how including both potentiality and actuality as part of the real is both compatible with experience and contributes to solving key problems of fundamental process and emergence. The book is organized into four main sections that incorporate our routes to potentiality: (1) potentiality in modern science [history and philosophy; quantum physics and complexity]; (2) Relational Realism [ontological interpretation of quantum physics; philosophy and logic]; (3) Process Physics [ontological interpretation of relativity theory; physics and philosophy]; (4) on speculative philosophy and physics [limitations and approximations; process philosophy]. We conclude that certain fundamental problems in modern physics require complementary analyses of certain philosophical and metaphysical issues, and that such scholarship reveals intrinsic features and limits of determinism, potentiality and emergence that enable, among others, important progress on the quantum theory of measurement problem and new understandings of emergence.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Physics And Speculative Philosophy -- Section I: Potentiality In Modern Science -- Potentiality In Natural Philosophy -- Res Potentia And Res Extensa Linked, Hence United, By Quantum Measurement -- Section II: Relational Realism -- Bridging Necessity And Contingency In Quantum Mechanics -- Boolean Localization Of Quantum Events -- A Logical Analysis Of Relational Realism -- Section III: Process Physics -- On The Foundations Of Process Physics -- Process Physics: Self-Referential Information And Experiential Reality -- On “Process Physics” -- Section IV: Speculative Philosophy And Physics -- Limitations, Approximations And Reality -- Whiteheadian Physics: Its Implications For Time, Consciousness, And Freedom -- Index

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Through both an historical and philosophical analysis of the concept of possibility, we show how including both potentiality and actuality as part of the real is both compatible with experience and contributes to solving key problems of fundamental process and emergence. The book is organized into four main sections that incorporate our routes to potentiality: (1) potentiality in modern science [history and philosophy; quantum physics and complexity]; (2) Relational Realism [ontological interpretation of quantum physics; philosophy and logic]; (3) Process Physics [ontological interpretation of relativity theory; physics and philosophy]; (4) on speculative philosophy and physics [limitations and approximations; process philosophy]. We conclude that certain fundamental problems in modern physics require complementary analyses of certain philosophical and metaphysical issues, and that such scholarship reveals intrinsic features and limits of determinism, potentiality and emergence that enable, among others, important progress on the quantum theory of measurement problem and new understandings of emergence.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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