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Title: The Search for a Naturalistic World View: Volume 1 by Abner Shimony ISBN: 0-521-37744-7 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 26 February, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.00

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Summary: Dense: For specialists only
Comment: According to V. Mansfield's excellent book, "Science Synchronicity and Soul-making," Abner Shimony is known for articulating the metaphysical implications of Bell's inequality violations. Experimental tests show that the properties of subatomic particles (spin, charge etc) are invariably coupled or correlated, even at distances exceeding the ability of information to be transferred at the speed of light. Therefore, the universe is inherently non-local, seemingly discrete objects are connected at a deep level, and any theory of the universe must take this into account. Surely "experimental metaphysics" is important. But I didn't learn any of that here. These essays, written between 1955-1989, cover some interesting topics: "Is observation theory-laden?" and "Comments on 2 epistemological theses of Thomas Kuhn." But the writing is dense in the extreme, and oriented toward narrow specialists in physics and epistemelogy. As the author puts it [p.304]: "The argument of the preceding paragraph [a critique of Kuhnian skepticism] misses many of the subtleties and important cognate issues that can be found in the literature on the existence of external objects. (At least I hope that this is so, for it would be depressing to think that such an immense corpus could be distilled without loss to so small a residue!)" Personally, I find logic-chopping tedious and unproductive, and I vote "Distill!" Educated non-specialists looking for a semi-popular book on quantum physics and philosophy should look elsewhere. But if this sort of thing is professionally meaningful to you, Shimony comes with high credentials. .