The Nature of Contingency : Quantum Physics as Modal Realism
- Submitting institution
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The University of Birmingham
- Unit of assessment
- 30 - Philosophy
- Output identifier
- 68342677
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1093/oso/9780198846215.001.0001
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780198846215
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This is a 240-page monograph consisting of wholly original research. Developed over many years, it is more recently funded by the ERC Starting Grant Project ‘FraMEPhys’ (grant number 757295). It is a substantial and densely-argued book, equivalent to roughly 10/12 articles. It proposes a wholly new account of objective contingency, epistemology of modality, and resolves outstanding problems with the many-worlds interpretation of quantum theory; it further makes novel proposals concerning the metaphysics of laws, counterfactuals, chances, causation, and fine-tuning.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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