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Metafizyczne implikacje fizyki kwantowej (przeł. Elżbieta Drozdowska)
Distilling Metaphysics from Quantum Physics (trans. Elżbieta Drozdowska)

Author(s): Tim Maudlin
Contributor(s): Elżbieta Drozdowska (Translator)
Subject(s): Philosophy, Special Branches of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Keywords: philosophy of physics; philosophy of quantum mechanics; determinism; complementarity, nonlocality

Summary/Abstract: Translated here into Polish is Tim Maudlin’s “Distilling Metaphysics from Quantum Physics,” which is a chapter of The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics. The author discusses six important metaphysical issues on which quantum physics sheds new light. He shows how differently each of the three main intepretations of quantum theory (von Neumann’s and GRW collapse theory, Bohm’s hidden variable theory, and Everett’s many-worlds theory) views each of them. The issues discussed are determinism, determinateness, the role of the observer, uncertainty and complementarity, quantum logic, and entanglement and non-locality.

  • Issue Year: 69/2021
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 407-439
  • Page Count: 33
  • Language: Polish