Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics
Collected Papers on Quantum Philosophy

The second edition of an extremely successful volume of collected papers by John Bell that includes two new papers.

J. S. Bell (Author), Alain Aspect (Introduction by)

9780521818629, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 3 June 2004

290 pages, 36 b/w illus.
23.5 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.6 kg

'… the new edition of Bell's papers is a must-buy for anyone seriously interested in the fundamentals of quantum mechanics and in understanding Bell's contribution to our grasp of the subject.' The Times Higher Education Supplement

John Bell, FRS was one of the leading expositors and interpreters of modern quantum theory. He is particularly famous for his discovery of the crucial difference between the predictions of conventional quantum mechanics and the implications of local causality, a concept insisted on by Einstein. John Bell's work played a major role in the development of our current understanding of the profound nature of quantum concepts and of the fundamental limitations they impose on the applicability of the classical ideas of space, time and locality. This book includes all of John Bell's published and unpublished papers on the conceptual and philosophical problems of quantum mechanics, including two papers that appeared after the first edition was published. The book includes a short Preface written by the author for the first edition, and also an introduction by Alain Aspect that puts into context John Bell's enormous contribution to the quantum philosophy debate.

List of papers on quantum philosophy by J. S. Bell
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction by Alain Aspect
1. On the problem of hidden variables in quantum mechanics
2. On the Einstein–Rosen–Podolsky paradox
3. The moral aspects of quantum mechanics
4. Introduction to the hidden-variable question
5. Subject and object
6. On wave packet reduction in the Coleman–Hepp model
7. The theory of local beables
8. Locality in quantum mechanics: reply to critics
9. How to teach special relativity
10. Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen experiments
11. The measurement theory of Everett and de Broglie's pilot wave
12. Free variables and local causality
13. Atomic-cascade photons and quantum-mechanical nonlocality
14. de Broglie–Bohm delayed choice double-slit experiments and density matrix
15. Quantum mechanics for cosmologists
16. Bertlmann's socks and the nature of reality
17. On the impossible pilot wave
18. Speakable and unspeakable in quantum mechanics
19. Beables for quantum field theory
20. Six possible worlds of quantum mechanics
21. EPR correlations and EPR distributions
22. Are there quantum jumps?
23. Against 'measurement'
24. La Nouvelle cuisine.

Subject Areas: Physics [PH]