Branching Space-Times : Theory and Applications Nuel Belnap

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Product details:
• ISBN 10: 0190884339
• ISBN 13: 9780190884338
• Author: Nuel Belnap, Thomas Müller, Tomasz Placek

This monograph presents the first detailed exposition of the formal theory of Branching Space-Times. The theory presented here by Nuel Belnap, Thomas Muller, and Tomasz Placek describes how real possibilities can play out in our spatio-temporal world. In our world, some things that are really possible in Cleveland are not really possible in San Francisco; other things were really possible in 1988 but are not really possible in 2021. The authors develop a rigorous, relativity-friendly theory of indeterminism as a local and modal concept, demonstrating that our world contains events with alternative possible outcomes.

Table contents:

I The Core Theory
1. Introduction
2. The Foundations of Branching Space-Times
3. Two options for the branching of histories
4. Building upon the foundations of Branching Space-Times
5. Modal funny business
6. Causation in terms of causae causantes
7. Probabilities
II Applications
8. Quantum correlations
9. Branching in relativistic space-times
10. A Branching Space-Times perspective on presentism
III Appendix

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