Quantum Reality, Relativistic Causality, and Closing the Epistemic Circle
In July 2006, a major international conference was held at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada, to celebrate the career and work of a remarkable man of letters. Abner Shimony, who is well known for his pioneering contributions to found
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THE WESTERN ONTARIO SERIES IN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE A SERIES OF BOOKS IN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE, METHODOLOGY, EPISTEMOLOGY, LOGIC, HISTORY OF SCIENCE, AND RELATED FIELDS
Managing Editor WILLIAM DEMOPOULOS
Department of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario, Canada Managing Editor 1980–1997 ROBERT E. BUTTS
Late, Department of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Editorial Board JOHN L. BELL,
University of Western Ontario
JEFFREY BUB,
University of Maryland
PETER CLARK,
St Andrews University
DAVID DEVIDI,
University of Waterloo
ROBERT DiSALLE,
University of Western Ontario
MICHAEL FRIEDMAN, MICHAEL HALLETT, WILLIAM HARPER,
Stanford University McGill University
University of Western Ontario
CLIFFORD A. HOOKER, AUSONIO MARRAS,
University of Newcastle
University of Western Ontario
JÜRGEN MITTELSTRASS, WAYNE C. MYRVOLD, THOMAS UEBEL,
Universität Konstanz
University of Western Ontario
University of Manchester
ITAMAR PITOWSKY,
Hebrew University
VOLUME 73
Wayne C. Myrvold · Joy Christian
Quantum Reality, Relativistic Causality, and Closing the Epistemic Circle Essays in Honour of Abner Shimony
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Joy Christian Wolfson College University of Oxford Oxford, OX2 6UD United Kingdom [email protected]
Wayne C. Myrvold Department of Philosophy University of Western Ontario London, O N N6A 3K7 Canada [email protected]
ISBN: 978-1-4020-9106-3
e-ISBN: 978-1-4020-9107-0
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Abner Shimony and Manana Sikic
Acknowledgments
This book collects papers stemming from a conference held in honour of Abner Shimony at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, July 18–21, 2006, together with some contributions from people who would have liked to have been at the conference, but were unable to attend. We would like to thank Jeremy Butterfield for initiating the idea of a conference in honour of Abner Shimony. We are also grateful to Howard Burton and Lucien Hardy for providing the venue for the conference at the Perimeter Institute, which also provided generous financial support for the conference. Additional financial support was provided by contributions from the Institute for Quantum Computing and the University of Western Ontario. We thank the staff of the Perimeter Institute, in particular the conference coordinator Kate Gillespie, for their dedicated efforts, which made the conference smoothly. We are grateful to William Demopoulos for his support for this volume, to Lucy Fleet of Springer for
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