The Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics An Interactive Interpretation [Paperback]

This is one of the most important books on quantum mechanics to have appeared in recent years.One of the most important books on quantum mechanics to appear in recent years offers a dramatically new interpretation to resolve puzzles and paradoxes associated with the measurement problem and the behavior of coupled systems.One of the most important books on quantum mechanics to appear in recent years offers a dramatically new interpretation to resolve puzzles and paradoxes associated with the measurement problem and the behavior of coupled systems.This is one of the most important books on quantum mechanics to have appeared in recent years. It offers a dramatically new interpretation that resolves puzzles and paradoxes associated with the measurement problem and the behavior of coupled systems. A crucial feature of this interpretation is that a quantum mechanical measurement can be certain to have a particular outcome even when the observed system fails to have the property corresponding to that outcome just prior to the measurement interaction.Preface; Introduction; 1. Overview; 2. Dynamical states; 3. Measurement and quantum states; 4. Coupled systems; 5. Metaphysical aspects; 6. Alternatives compared; 7. Open questions; Appendix; Selected bibliography; Index. In a very careful, subtle, and deeply original piece of work, Healey has...achieved something no one else has been able to do in the sixty-year history of the discussion of quantum mechanics. Howard Stein, University of Chicago Richard Healey's book develops a new interpretation of quantum mechanics that is perhaps the first original, systematic interpretation of the theory since Hans Riechenbach's Philosophic Foundations of Quantum Mechanics... Isis ...Healey has proposed a powerful and sharp, no-collapse and no-hidden variables, interpretation of quantum mechanics. Anyone keen to witness objectively these virtues must read the book. Meir Hemmo, Foundations of Physics