Part I Introduction
Passion at a Distance (Don Howard)
Part II Philosophy, Methodology and History
Balancing Necessity and Fallibilism: Charles Sanders Peirce
on the Status of Mathematics and its Intersection with the Inquiry
into Nature (Ronald Anderson)
Newton’s Methodology (William Harper)
Whitehead’s Philosophy and Quantum Mechanics (QM): A Tribute
to Abner Shimony (Shimon Malin)
Bohr and the Photon (John Stachel)
Part III Bell’s Theorem and Nonlocality
A. Theory
Extending the Concept of an …
Read morePart I Introduction
Passion at a Distance (Don Howard)
Part II Philosophy, Methodology and History
Balancing Necessity and Fallibilism: Charles Sanders Peirce
on the Status of Mathematics and its Intersection with the Inquiry
into Nature (Ronald Anderson)
Newton’s Methodology (William Harper)
Whitehead’s Philosophy and Quantum Mechanics (QM): A Tribute
to Abner Shimony (Shimon Malin)
Bohr and the Photon (John Stachel)
Part III Bell’s Theorem and Nonlocality
A. Theory
Extending the Concept of an “Element of Reality” to Work
with Inefficient Detectors (Daniel M. Greenberger)
A General Proof of Nonlocality without Inequalities
for Bipartite States (GianCarlo Ghirardi and Luca Marinatto)
On the Separability of Physical Systems (Jon P. Jarrett)
Bell Inequalities: Many Questions, a Few Answers (Nicolas Gisin)
B. Experiment
Do Experimental Violations of Bell Inequalities Require a Nonlocal
Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics? II: Analysis a la Bell (Edward S. Fry, Xinmei Qu, and Marlan O. Scully)
The Physics of 2 = 1 + 1 (Yanhua Shih)
Part IV Probability, Uncertainty, and Stochastic Modifications
of Quantum Mechanics
Interpretations of Probability in Quantum Mechanics: A Case of “Experimental Metaphysics” (Geoffrey Hellman)
“No Information Without Disturbance”: Quantum Limitations
of Measurement (Paul Busch)
How Stands Collapse II (Philip Pearle)
Is There a Relation Between the Breakdown of the Superposition
Principle and an Indeterminacy in the Structure of the Einsteinian
Space-Time? (Andor Frenkel)
Indistinguishability or Stochastic Dependence? (D. Costantini and U. Garibaldi)
Part V Relativity
Plane Geometry in Spacetime (N. David Mermin)
The Transient nows (Steven F. Savitt)
Quantum in Gravity? (Michael Horne)
A Proposed Test of the Local Causality of Spacetime (Adrian Kent)
Quantum Gravity Computers: On the Theory of Computation
with Indefinite Causal Structure (Lucien Hardy)
“Definability,” “Conventionality,” and Simultaneity
in Einstein–Minkowski Space-Time (Howard Stein)
Part VI Concluding Words
Bistro Banter: A Dialogue with Abner Shimony and Lee Smolin
Unfinished Work: A Bequest (Abner Shimony)
Bibliography of Abner Shimony
