Quantum Mechanics and the Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead.

Cover -- Quantum Mechanics and the Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- I. THE PHILOSOPHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF QUANTUM MECHANICS -- 2. The Ontological Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics -- Bohr's Strategy: "Complementarity" as Evidence of an Unknowable Objective Reality -- Von Neumann's Alternative to Bohr's Epistemic Schism: Objective Reality via a Coherent Ontological Interpretation -- Closed Systems -- The Ontological Significance of Potentia -- 3. The Evolution of Actuality to Probability -- The Formal Description of Quantum Mechanical State Evolution -- Decoherence -- Three Benefits of This Ontological Interpretation of the Quantum Formalism -- Summary -- Interlude: The Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead -- II. QUANTUM MECHANICS AND WHITEHEAD'S METAPHYSICAL SCHEME -- 4. The Correlation of Quantum Mechanics and Whitehead's Philosophy -- The Phases of Quantum Mechanical Concrescence -- The Categoreal Obligations -- 5. Spatiotemporal Extension -- Coordinate Division and Genetic Division -- Coordinate Division and the Decomposition of Invariant Spacetime Intervals -- Empirical Adequacy and the Constancy of the Velocity of Light -- Coordinate Extensive Relations and Genetic Historical Relations: The Dipolarity of Relativity Theory and Quantum Mechanics -- The Issue of Absolute Spacetime and Alternative Conceptions -- The Dipolar Cooperation of Coordinate and Genetic Division -- The Dipolarity of Publicity and Privacy -- The Abstractive Geometrical Scheme Underlying Extensive Connection -- Facts and Forms: Durations and Loci -- 6. Summary and Outlook -- Appendix -- Works Cited -- Index.

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