A Philosopher's Understanding of Quantum Mechanics: Possibilities and Impossibilities of a Modal Interpretation

by Pieter Vermaas

This book is about how to understand quantum mechanics by means of a modal interpretation. Modal interpretations provide a general framework within which quantum mechanics can be considered as a theory that describes reality in terms of physical systems possessing definite properties. Quantum mechanics is standardly understood to be a theory about probabilities with which measurements have outcomes. Modal interpretations are relatively new attempts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521675677
• ISBN13: 9780521675673
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 9.6"