The World view of contemporary physics does it need a new metaphysics?

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ISBN: 9780585055466 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0585055467 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (vi, 185 p.) : ill.
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Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, c1988.

General Note:	Papers from a conference held at Colorado State University, Sept. 15-18, 1986. Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction: the world view of contemporary physics: does it need a new metaphysics? / Richard F. Kitchener -- Relation between natural science and metaphysics / Ivor Leclerc -- Quantum theory and the physicist's conception of nature: philosophical implications of Bell's Theorem -- Henry P. Stapp / How to kill Schrodinger's cat / Jeffrey Bub -- Universal quantum / David Finkelstein -- Do the new concepts of space and time require a new metaphysics? / Milic Capek -- Space-time and probability: classical and quantal / Olivier Costa de Beauregard -- Rediscovery of time / Ilya Prigogine -- Role of physics in the current change of paradigms / Fritjof Capra -- Contemporary physics and dialectical holism / Errol E. Harris.
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Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.