Demopoulos W., Pitowsky I. (Eds.) Physical Theory and its Interpretation: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey Bub

Springer, 2006. — 284 p. — (The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science). — ISBN13: 978-1-4020-4876-0.The essays in this volume were written by leading researchers on classical mechanics, statistical mechanics, quantum theory and relativity. The papers cover a number of central topics in the foundations of physics, including the role of symmetry principles in classical and quantum physics (papers by Butterfield and by Healey), Einstein's hole argument in general relativity (Korte), quantum mechanics and special relativity (Hemmo and Berkovitz, Brown and Timpson), quantum correlations (Glymour, Redei), quantum logic (Demopoulos, Isham, Stairs), and quantum probability and information (Gudder, Pitowsky). The authors - philosophers, physicists, and mathematicians - represent a broad spectrum of approaches to foundational issues at the frontiersof contemporary research. This befits a volume in honor of Jeffrey Bub, one of the leading philosophers of physics of the last thirty years, whose influence on the field is evident all the essays collected for this volume.A New Modal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics in Terms of Relational Properties
Why Special Relativity Should Not Be a Template for a Fundamental Reformulation of Quantum Mechanics
On Symmetry and Conserved Quantities in Classical Mechanics
On the Notion of a Physical Theory of an Incompletely Knowable Domain
Markov Properties and Quantum Experiments
Quantum Entropy
Symmetry and the Scope of Scientific Realism
Is it True; or is it False; or Somewhere in Between? The Logic of Quantum Theory
Einstein's Hole Argument and Weyl's Field-body Relationalism
Quantum Mechanics as a Theory of Probability
John Von Neumann on Quantum Correlations
Kriske, Tupman and Quantum Logic: The Quantum Logician's Conundrum