David Bohm - Causality and Chance in Modern Physics (1971)
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Originally published 1957 by Routledge & Kegan Paul and D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc.; reprinted 1961 by Harper & Row Publishers. Copyright 1957 David Bohm
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Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper
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Published by University of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4011
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bohm, David Casuality and Chance in Modern Physics / David Bohm; foreword by Louis de Broglie Includes bibliographical references
ISBN 0-8122-1002-6 1. Physicsphilosophy. I. Title. II. de Broglie, Louis QC6.B597 57-28894 530.1 CIP
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Contents
Foreword
Louis de Broglie
page ix
I Causality and Chance in Natural Law
1 Introduction
1
2 Causality in Natural Processes
4
3 Association v. Causal Connection
5
4 Significant Causes in a Given Context
7
5 More General Criteria for Causal Relationships
10
6 Causal Laws and the Properties of Things
12
7 One-to-Many and Many-to-One Causal Relationships
16
8 Contingency, Chance, and Statistical Law
20
9 The Theory of Probability
25
10 General Considerations on the Laws of Nature
28
11 Conclusion
32
II Causality and Chance in Classical Physics: The Philosophy of Mechanism
1 Introduction
34
2 Classical Mechanics
34
3 The Philosophy of Mechanism
36
4 Developments away from Mechanism in Classical Physics
39
5 Wave Theory of Light
40
6 Field Theory
41
7 On the Question of What is the Nature of the Electromagnetic Field
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