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Tables of Contents for Quantum Mechanics
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
Robert John Russell
i
I. SCIENTIFIC AND HISTORICAL CONTEXT
Scientific Background
The Reality of the Quantum World
Abner Shimony
3
14
Quantum Nonlocalities: Experimental Evidence
Raymond Y. Chiao
17
24
Chaos and the Semiclassical Limit of Quantum Mechanics (Is the Moon There When Somebody Looks?)
Michael Berry
41
14
Historical Antecedents
Formalism and Ontology in Early Astronomy
Ernan McMullin
55
26
II. PHILOSOPHICAL INTERPRETATIONS OF QUANTUM MECHANICS
Epistemological and Ontological Issues Arising from Quantum Theory
William R. Stoeger
81
18
Determinism Versus Indeterminism in Quantum Mechanics: A ``Free'' Choice
James T. Cushing
99
12
Some Worlds of Quantum Theory
Jeremy Butterfield
111
30
The Tangled Story of Nonlocality in Quantum Mechanics
Michael Redhead
141
18
The Histories Interpretation of Quantum Theory And the Problem of Human/Divine Action
Chris Clarke
159
22
III. THEOLOGICAL ISSUES
Physical Process, Quantum Events, and Divine Agency
John Polkinghorne
181
10
Generalizations: From Quantum Mechanics to God
Michael Heller
191
20
Tracing the Lines: Constraint and Freedom In the Movement from Quantum Physics to Theology
Philip Clayton
211
24
Creation, Providence, and Quantum Chance
Thomas F. Tracy
235
24
Quantum Theory and the Macroscopic World
George F.R. Ellis
259
34
Divine Action and Quantum Mechanics: A Fresh Assessment
Robert John Russell
293
36
Glossary
329
6
Contributors and Conference Participants
335
2
Name Index
337
4
Subject Index
341
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