Einstein's quantum error : an approach to rationality /
What is it to be rational? This is the fundamental subject of this book as long as we concern ourselves to thinking about the physical world. It used to be thought by philosophers that rational thinking required the use of principles that are absolutes, that have universal application and require no...
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Newcastle upon Tyne, UK :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter One; Causality; Causality as contextual: consequences; Rational thinking; Randomness; Creation; The new rationality; Chapter Two; Early attempts at understanding causality; Causality and philosophers; Nature's regularities; Time and causality; Chapter Three; Hume as a natural scientist; Hume's 'custom or habit'; Philosophers versus Hume; Hume's programme; Chapter Four; Evolution; The brain's neural network; The neural network and causality; Chapter Five; Early work; The neural network again; Phenomenalists vs atomists; Boltzmann
- Brownian motion and EinsteinChapter Six; Classical trajectories; Classical trajectories and existence; Quantum particles: observing the electron; Einstein: a first reaction; Randomness in Quantum Mechanics; Bohr's misguided attempt at epistemology; Einstein's views of quantum mechanics; Uncertainty principle; Entanglement; Superposition principle and the Schrödinger cat; Coda; Chapter Seven; Miracles; The vacuum and the Big Bang; Anthropic principle; Chapter Eight; The anti-rationalists; Detractors of Hume; Mathematical Platonism; Quantum mechanics and the human mind; Cultural relativism
- ParadigmsScientific revolutions; Coda; Chapter Nine; Chapter Ten; Epilogue; Science, Art, and Religion; Science without metaphysics; Art without beauty; Religion without absolutes; Some Books; Quotes from Reviews of Books by the Same Author; About the Author; Index
