Fīzīk va falsafah: Persian 1402

One of the great ironies of quantum mechanics is that its conceptual foundations, in addition to seeming strange to the physicists who use it, have largely been ignored by philosophers. In "Physics and Philosophy," Bernard Despania argues that quantum physics—by casting doubt on previously hallowed concepts such as space, matter, and causality—calls for a serious rethinking of much of traditional philosophy. In "Physics and Philosophy" an understandable work without the use of complex mathematics on the philosophical meaning of the quantum revolution is presented by one of the world's leading professors in this field. Bernard Despaña provides an objective account of the fundamental and guiding principles of contemporary physics—especially quantum mechanics—followed by a look at the consequences of this philosophical thinking. "Bernard Despaña" first describes the recent discoveries in quantum physics and analyzes the importance of contemporary developments and then begins to explain various philosophical theories - such as materialism, realism, Kantism, and neo-Kantism - against the conceptual problems of quantum theory. His overall conclusion is that although the physical implications of quantum theory show that scientific knowledge will never truly describe a mind-independent reality, the concept of such an ultimate reality—a reality that we can never directly or logically understand access and call a hidden reality - is nevertheless conceptually necessary.