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1 online resource (154 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; 1 The Causality-Explanation Connection from Aristotle to Mill; Aristotle; Bacon, Galileo, and Descartes; Newton; Hume; Kant; Mill; 2 Regularity between States of Physical Systems in the Nineteenth Century; Alternative Views of Newtonian Mechanics; Classical Thermodynamics; Kinetic Molecular Theory; Atomic Theory; Electromagnetic Theory; 3 Prelude to Quantum Mechanics; Radioactive Decay; Thomson and Rutherford on Atomic Structure; Planck's Quantum Hypothesis; Bohr's Early Theory of the Hydrogen Atom |
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Contributions from Heisenberg, Schrödinger, Born, and De Broglie4 The Copenhagen Interpretation; Observational Level; Theoretical Level; Pictorial Level; 5 The Rift between Causality and Explanation; The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Challenge; Neutral Pion Decay and the "Causality Implies Explanation" Thesis; Two-Slit Experiments and the "Causality Implies Explanation" Thesis; 6 The Rift between Causality and Explanation: Response Options; Option One: Affirm that the "Causality Implies Explanation" Thesis Holds for the Results of Measurements; Option Two: Causality Holds at a Sub-quantum Level |
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Option Three: Deny That Causality Holds in the Quantum RealmOption Four: Appeal to Alternative Theories of Causality; The Exchange of Conserved Quantities Interpretation of Causality; The Contrary-to-Fact Conditional Interpretation of Causality; The Energy Transfer Interpretation of Causality; Option Five: Niels Bohr and the Limits of Causal Analysis; 7 Complementarity in Biology; 8 Complementarity in Psychology; 9 Complementarity in Religious Language; Applications of the Two Languages by Christian Theologians; St Augustine |
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St Thomas Aquinas Martin Luther; Soren Kierkegaard; The Two Languages: Mutually Exclusive but Complementary?; Paul Tillich's Theology of Correlation; Conclusion; Henry Margenau's "Constructivist" View of Quantum Mechanics; Index of Names; Index of Subjects |
| Summary |
"Philosophers have discussed the relationship of cause and effect from ancient times through our own. Prior to the work of Niels Bohr, these discussions presupposed that successful causal attribution implies explanation. The success of quantum theory challenged this presupposition. Bohr introduced a principle of complementarity that provides a new way of looking at causality and explanation. In this succinct review of the history of these discussions, John Losee presents the philosophical background of debates over the cause-effect relation. He reviews the positions of Aristotle, Rene Descartes, Isaac Newton, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and John Stuart Mill. He shows how nineteenth-century theories in physics and chemistry were informed by a dominant theory of causality and how specific developments in physics provided the background for the emergence of quantum theory. Problems created for the causality implies explanation thesis by the emergence of quantum theory are reviewed in detail. Losee evaluates Bohr's proposals to apply a principle of complementarity within physics, biology, and psychology. He also discusses the feasibility of using complementarity as a principle of interpretation within Christian theology. This volume, which includes an in-depth index, is an essential addition to the libraries of advanced undergraduate and graduate students, philosophers, and those interested in causality and explanation."--Provided by publisher |
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Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962.
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Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962 fast |
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Causality (Physics)
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Complementarity (Physics)
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Quantum theory.
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Quantum theory -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Quantum Theory
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Causality (Physics)
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Complementarity (Physics)
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Quantum theory
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Quantum theory -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351527118 |
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1351527118 |
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