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Altmann, Simon L.,. Einstein's quantum error: an approach to rationality / Simon Altmann. — 1 online resource (x, 120 pages) — <URL:http://elib.fa.ru/ebsco/1856819.pdf>.Record create date: 7/30/2018 Subject: Science — Philosophy.; SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects Collections: EBSCO Allowed Actions: –
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Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Chapter One
- Causality
- Causality as contextual: consequences
- Rational thinking
- Randomness
- Creation
- The new rationality
- Chapter Two
- Early attempts at understanding causality
- Causality and philosophers
- Nature’s regularities
- Time and causality
- Chapter Three
- Hume as a natural scientist
- Hume’s ‘custom or habit’
- Philosophers versus Hume
- Hume’s programme
- Chapter Four
- Evolution
- The brain’s neural network
- The neural network and causality
- Chapter Five
- Early work
- The neural network again
- Phenomenalists vs atomists
- Boltzmann
- Brownian motion and Einstein
- Chapter Six
- Classical trajectories
- Classical trajectories and existence
- Quantum particles: observing the electron
- Einstein: a first reaction
- Randomness in Quantum Mechanics
- Bohr’s misguided attempt at epistemology
- Einstein’s views of quantum mechanics
- Uncertainty principle
- Entanglement
- Superposition principle and the Schrödinger cat
- Coda
- Chapter Seven
- Miracles
- The vacuum and the Big Bang
- Anthropic principle
- Chapter Eight
- The anti-rationalists
- Detractors of Hume
- Mathematical Platonism
- Quantum mechanics and the human mind
- Cultural relativism
- Paradigms
- Scientific revolutions
- Coda
- Chapter Nine
- Chapter Ten
- Epilogue
- Science, Art, and Religion
- Science without metaphysics
- Art without beauty
- Religion without absolutes
- Some Books
- Quotes from Reviews of Books by the Same Author
- About the Author
- Index
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