A Philosopher's Understanding of Quantum Mechanics by Pieter ... - 9780521675673

A Philosopher's Understanding of Quantum MechanicsPossibilities and Impossibilities of a Modal Interpretation\nAuthor(s): Pieter E. Vermaas\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521675673, 978-0521675673\nSynopsis\nThis book is about how to understand quantum mechanics by means of a modal interpretation. Modal interpretations provide a general framework within which quantum mechanics can be considered as a theory that describes reality in terms of physical systems possessing definite properties. Quantum mechanics is standardly understood to be a theory about probabilities with which measurements have outcomes. Modal interpretations are relatively new attempts to present quantum mechanics as a theory which, like other physical theories, describes an observer-independent reality. In this book, Pieter Vermaas summarises the results of this work. The book will be of great value to undergraduates, gradu.