Clifton Selected Papers now published

[Miklos Redei]

Dear Friends and Colleagues:

While book advertising is not, in general, suitable for posting at the
philphys mailing list, I think everyone will agree that announcing the
volume of Selected Papers of Robert Clifton, our brilliant colleague -- 
who you will recall died tragically young in the summer of 2002 -- is 
an exception. 

The large volume (503 pages), edited by J. Butterfield and H. Halvorson
has now been published, by Oxford University Press.  It contains 14
papers (several co-authored) mostly from his last half-dozen years
(1996-2002).

The volume is a fitting memorial to Rob and his prodigious talent; more
details about the book, and URLs of the two OUP websites, are below.

With best wishes,
Miklos Redei
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Quantum Entanglements - Selected Papers 
Rob Clifton
Isbn: 0-19-927015-5

Rob Clifton was one of the most brilliant and productive researchers in
the foundations and philosophy of quantum theory, who died tragically at
the age of 38. Jeremy Butterfield and Hans Halvorson collect fourteen of
his finest papers here, drawn from the latter part of his career
(1995-2002), all of which combine exciting philosophical discussion with
rigorous mathematical results.  Many of these papers break wholly new
ground, either conceptually or technically. Others resolve a vague
controversy into a precise technical problem, which is then solved; still
others solve an open problem that had been in the air for some time. All
of them show scientific and philosophical creativity of a high order,
genuinely among the very best work in the field.
 
The papers are grouped into four Parts. First come four papers about the
modal interpretation of quantum mechanics. Part II comprises three papers
on the foundations of algebraic quantum field theory, with an emphasis on
entanglement and nonlocality. The two papers in Part III concern the
concept of a particle in relativistic quantum theories. One paper analyses
localization; the other analyses the Unruh effect (Rindler quanta) using
the algebraic approach to quantum theory. Finally, Part IV contains
striking new results about such central issues as complementarity, Bohr's
reply to the EPR argument, and no hidden variables theorems; and ends with
a philosophical survey of the field of quantum information. The volume
includes a full bibliography of Clifton's publications.
 
Quantum Entanglements offers inspiration and substantial reward to
graduates and professionals in the foundations of physics, with a
background in philosophy, physics, or mathematics.

http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-927015-5

or 

http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Philosophy/Science/?view=usa&ci=0199270155

.	Editors' Introduction 
.	I. Modal Interpretations 
.	1 Independently motivating the Kochens-Dieks modal interpretation
of quantum mechanics 
.	2 with Jeffrey Bub: A uniqueness theorem for 'no collapse'
interpretations of quantum mechanics 
.	3 with Jeffrey Bub and Sheldon Goldstein: Revised proof for the
uniqueness theorem for 'no collapse' interpretations of quantum mechanics 
.	4 with Michael Dickson: Lorentz-invariance in modal
interpretations 
.	II. Foundations of Algebraic Quantum Field Theory 
.	5 The modal interpretation of algebraic quantum field theory 
.	6 with Hans Halvorson: Generic Bell correlation between arbitrary
local algebras in quantum field theory 
.	7 with Hans Halvorson: Entanglement and open systems in algebraic
quantum field theory 
.	III. The Concept of a Particle 
.	8 with Hans Halvorson: No place for particles in relativistic
quantum theories? 
.	9 with Hans Halvorson: Are Rindler quanta real? Inequivalent
particle concepts in quantum field theory 
.	IV. New Light on Complementarity, Hidden Variables, and
Entanglement 
.	10 with Hans Halvorson and Adrian Kent: Non-local correlations are
generic in infinite-dimensional systems 
.	11 Complementarity between position and momentum as a consequence
of Kochen-Specker arguments 
.	12 with Hans Halvorson: Reconsidering Bohr's reply to EPR 
.	13 with Adrian Kent: Simulating quantum mechanics by
non-contextual hidden variables 
.	14 The subtleties of entanglement and its role in quantum
information theory 
.	Bibliography of the writings of Robert Clifton 
Index

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