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020			_a9780198846215 _q(hbk.)
020			_a0198846215 _q(hbk.)
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100	1		_aWilson, Alastair, _d1983- _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe nature of contingency : _bquantum physics as modal realism / _cAlastair Wilson.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aOxford : _bOxford University Press, _c2020.
300			_axi, 219 pages : _billustrations ; _c22 cm
336			_2rdacontent _aنص _btxt
337			_2rdamedia _aدون وسيط _bn
338			_2rdacarrier _aمجلد _bnc
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 201-213) and index.
505	1		_aPreface -- Introduction: Explaining Contingency -- 1: Analysing Modality -- 2: Diverging Everettian Quantum Mechanics -- 3: Emergent Chance -- 4: Laws of Nature -- 5: Indeterminacy -- 6: Anthropic Contingency -- Conclusion: An Expanding Reality -- References -- Index.
520	8		_aThis 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. 0Rationalist 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.
650		0	_aQuantum theory.
650		0	_aMetaphysics.
650		7	_aMetaphysics. _2fast
650		7	_aQuantum theory. _2fast
650		7	_aKontingenz _2gnd
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