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Arthur I Fine
PHIL 482
Seattle Campus
Study of philosophical issues raised by theories in physics or chemistry, such as whether space (time) is a substance, how causation and locality are treated in quantum mechanics, temporal anistropy and time travel, the nature of a field of force, the reduction of chemistry to physics. Prerequisite: one PHIL course.
Class description
Conceptual problems of quantum theory. Interpretations (Copenhagen, many worlds, hidden variables), problem situations (double slit, EPR), and "paradoxes" (entanglement, quantum logic, teleportation).
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