CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter C
2. CONTENTS v
3. FOREWORD 1
4. PART 1: PHYSICAL FACTS AND RELATED CONCEPTUAL PROBLEMS
5. CHAPTER 1 Broad Overview 13
6. CHAPTER 2 Overstepping the Limits of the Framework of Familiar Concepts 32
7. CHAPTER 3 Nonseparability and Bell’s Theorem 51
8. CHAPTER 4 Objectivity and Empirical Reality 89
9. CHAPTER 5 Quantum Physics and Realism 113
10. CHAPTER 6 Universal Laws and the “Reality” Question 134
11. CHAPTER 7 Antirealism and Physics; the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Problem; Methodological Operationalism 152
12. CHAPTER 8 Measurement and Decoherence, Universality Revisited 168
13. CHAPTER 9 Various Realist Attempts 196
14. CHAPTER 10 Schro¨ dinger’s Cat, Wigner’s Friend, and Veiled Reality 225
15. PART 2: A PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS
16. CHAPTER 11 Science and Philosophy 249
17. CHAPTER 12 Materialisms 265
18. CHAPTER 13 Suggestions from Kantism 282
19. CHAPTER 14 Causality and Observational Predictability 312
20. CHAPTER 15 Explanation and Phenomena 333
21. CHAPTER 16 Mind and Things 354
22. CHAPTER 17 Pragmatic-Transcendental versus Veiled Reality Approaches 376
23. CHAPTER 18 Objects and Consciousness 405
24. CHAPTER 19 The “Ground of Things” 429
25. APPENDIX 1 The Bell Theorem 465
26. APPENDIX 2 Consistent Histories, Counterfactuality, and Bell’s Theorem 477
27. APPENDIX 3 Correlation-at-a-Distance in the Broglie-Bohm Model 483
28. References 485
29. Name Index 493
30. Subject Index 497