Name: The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism (en Inglés)
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Author: Alastair Wilson
ISBN: 9780198846215

portada The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Oup Oxford

Autor

Alastair Wilson

Año

2020

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

240

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9780198846215

Categorías

Metafísica y ontología

The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism (en Inglés)

Alastair Wilson (Autor) · Oup Oxford · Tapa Dura

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This book defends a radical new theory of contingency as a physical phenomenon. Drawing on the many-worlds approach to quantum theory and cutting-edge metaphysics and philosophy of science, it argues that quantum theories are best understood as telling us about the space of genuine possibilities, rather than as telling us solely about actuality. When quantum physics is taken seriously in the way first proposed by Hugh Everett III, it provides the resources for a new systematic metaphysical framework encompassing possibility, necessity, actuality, chance, counterfactuals, and a host of related modal notions. Rationalist metaphysicians argue that the metaphysics of modality is strictly prior to any scientific investigation; metaphysics establishes which worlds are possible, and physics merely checks which of these worlds is actual. Naturalistic metaphysicians respond that science may discover new possibilities and new impossibilities. This book's quantum theory of contingency takes naturalistic metaphysics one step further, allowing that science may discover what it is to be possible. As electromagnetism revealed the nature of light, as acoustics revealed the nature of sound, as statistical mechanics revealed the nature of heat, so quantum physics reveals the nature of contingency.