Alexander Wendt

Quantum Mind and Social Science

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A unique contribution to the understanding of social science, showing the implications of quantum physics for the nature of human society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 683g
• ISBN-13: 9781107082540
• ISBN-10: 1107082544
• Artikelnr.: 42198769

Autorenporträt

Alexander Wendt is Ralph D. Mershon Professor of International Security and Professor of Political Science at Ohio State University. He is the author of Social Theory of International Politics (Cambridge, 1999) which won the International Studies Association's Best Book of the Decade Award in 2006.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Preface to a quantum social science
Part I. Quantum Theory and its Interpretation: 2. Three experiments
3. Six challenges
4. Five interpretations
Part II. Quantum Consciousness and Life: 5. Quantum brain theory
6. Panpsychism and neutral monism
7. A quantum vitalism
Part III. A Quantum Model of Man: 8. Quantum cognition and rational choice
9. Agency and quantum will
10. Non-local experience in time
Part IV. Language, Light, and Other Minds: 11. Quantum semantics and meaning holism
12. Direct perception and other minds
Part V. The Agent-Structure Problem Redux: 13. An emergent, holistic, but flat ontology
14. Toward a quantum vitalist sociology
Conclusion.