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245 14 a| The nature of contingencyh| [electronic resource] :b| quantum physics as modal realism /c| Alastair Wilson.;

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505 1 a| Preface -- 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.;

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520 8 a| 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. 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.;

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The nature of contingency quantum physics as modal realism / Alastair Wilson.

Author/creator	Wilson, Alastair, 1983-
Other author	Oxford University Press.
Format	Electronic
Edition	First edition.
Publication Info	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Description	xi, 219 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online
Subjects	Quantum theory. Metaphysics.

Incomplete content	Preface -- 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.
Summary	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. 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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-213) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2019945438
ISBN	9780198846215 (hbk.)
ISBN	0198846215 (hbk.)

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