دانلود کتاب Scientific Realism in Particle Physics: A Causal Approach

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Contents\nPreface\nPart I. The Recent Debate on Scientific Realism\n 1. Scientific Realism and Its Relation to Common Sense\n 1.1 Key Arguments Surrounding Scientific Realism\n 1.2 Scientific Realism without Common Sense Realism?\n 2. Entity Realism\n 2.1 From Theories to Entities\n 2.2 Is Manipulability an Adequate Criterion of Reality?\n 2.3 From Manipulation to Explanation\n 3. NOA and the Vices of the Realism Debate\n 3.1 In Defense of Interpretation\n 3.2 The Principle of Fairness\n 3.3 NOA, Entity Realism, and the Homely Line\nPart II. Causal Realism\n 4. Causal vs. Theoretical Warrant\n 4.1 Criterion 1: Non-redundancy\n 4.2 Criterion 2: Material Inference\n 4.3 Criterion 3: Empirical Adequacy\n 4.4 Causal Realism’s Advantages over Entity Realism\n 5. Causal Warrant for the Neutrino: A Case Study\n 5.1 Bohr and Pauli on Beta Decay\n 5.2 The Impact of Fermi’s Theory and the Need for Direct Detection\n 5.3 The Detection of the Neutrino by Reines and Cowan\n 6. The Problem of Unconceived Alternatives\n 6.1 Previous Attempts to Undermine the PUA\n 6.2 Causal Knowledge as a Criterion for the Realist\n 6.3 Causal Realism, Unconceived Alternatives, and the Atomic Hypothesis\nPart III. The Quantum Challenge\n 7. Causal Realism in the Context of Bell-Type Experiments\n 7.1 Bell-Experiments: Causal Warrant for Superluminal Causation\n 7.2 Causal Realism and Underdetermination in Quantum Mechanics\n 7.3 Some Experimental Constraints on Explanations for EPR\n 8. Delayed-Choice Experiments and the Metaphysics of Entanglement?\n 8.1 Delayed Choice in the Double-Slit Experiment\n 8.2 The Quantum Eraser\n 8.3 Delayed-Choice Entanglement Swapping\n 9. Particle Physics without Particles? On Causal Realism in Quantum Field Theory\n 9.1 Against Localizability: Malament’s Theorem and Its Generalizations\n 9.2 Against Countability: Unruh Effect and Interacting Fields\n 9.3 Defending Localizability and Countability\n 9.4 Concluding Remarks on Realism, Fundamentalism, and QFT\nBibliography\nIndex