Note: Front Cover -- Philosophy of Physics -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- General Preface -- Dedication -- Introduction -- List of Contributors -- Part A -- CHAPTER 1. ON SYMPLECTIC REDUCTION IN CLASSICAL MECHANICS -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 SYMPLECTIC REDUCTION: AN OVERVIEW -- 3 SOME GEOMETRIC TOOLS -- 4 ACTIONS OF LIE GROUPS -- 5 POISSON MANIFOLDS -- 6 SYMMETRY AND CONSERVATION REVISITED: MOMENTUM MAPS -- 7 REDUCTION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CHAPTER 2. THE REPRESENTATION OF TIME AND CHANGE IN MECHANICS -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 HAMILTONIAN AND LAGRANGIAN MECHANICS -- 3 SYMPLECTIC MATTERS -- 4 LAGRANGIAN FIELD THEORY -- 5 TIME AND CHANGE IN WELL-BEHAVED FIELD THEORIES -- 6 COMPLICATIONS -- 7 THE PROBLEM OF TIME IN GENERAL RELATIVITY -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CHAPTER 3. CLASSICAL RELATIVITY THEORY -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 THE STRUCTURE OF RELATIVITY THEORY -- 3 SPECIAL TOPICS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CHAPTER 4. NON-RELATIVISTIC QUANTUM MECHANICS -- 1 THE THEORY -- 2 WHENCE THE KINEMATICAL FORMALISM? -- 3 EMPIRICAL CONTENT -- 4 UNCERTAINTY -- 5 THE 'MEASUREMENT PROBLEM' -- 6 NON-LOCALITY -- 7 MATHEMATICAL APPENDIX -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CHAPTER 5. BETWEEN CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 EARLY HISTORY -- 3 COPENHAGEN: A REAPPRAISAL -- 4 QUANTIZATION -- 5 THE LIMIT ћ→ 0 -- 6 THE LIMIT N → ∞ -- 7 WHY CLASSICAL STATES AND OBSERVABLES? -- 8 EPILOGUE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CHAPTER 6. QUANTUM INFORMATION AND COMPUTATION -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 CLASSICAL INFORMATION -- 3 QUANTUM INFORMATION -- 4 ENTANGLEMENT ASSISTED QUANTUM COMMUNICATION -- 5 QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY -- 6 QUANTUM COMPUTATION -- 7 QUANTUM FOUNDATIONS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF QUANTUM INFORMATION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CHAPTER 7. THE CONCEPTUAL BASIS OF QUANTUM FIELD THEORY. , 1 INTRODUCTION TO THE NOTION OF QUANTIZED FIELDS -- 2 SCALAR FIELDS -- 3 SPINOR FIELDS -- 4 GAUGE FIELDS -- 5 THE BROUT-ENGLERT-HIGGS MECHANISM -- 6 UNITARITY -- 7 RENORMALIZATION -- 8 ANOMALIES -- 9 ASYMPTOTIC FREEDOM -- 10 TOPOLOGICAL TWISTS -- 11 CONFINEMENT -- 12 OUTLOOK -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CHAPTER 8. ALGEBRAIC QUANTUM FIELD THEORY -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 ALGEBRAIC PROLEGOMENA -- 2 STRUCTURE OF THE NET OF OBSERVABLE ALGEBRAS -- 3 NONLOCALITY AND OPEN SYSTEMS IN AQFT -- 4 PROSPECTS FOR PARTICLES -- 5 THE PROBLEM OF VALUE-DEFINITENESS IN AQFT -- 6 QUANTUM FIELDS AND SPACETIME POINTS -- 7 THE PROBLEM OF INEQUIVALENT REPRESENTATIONS -- 8 THE CATEGORY ∆ OF LOCALIZED TRANSPORTABLE ENDOMORPHISMS -- 9 FROM FIELDS TO REPRESENTATIONS -- 10 FROM REPRESENTATIONS TO FIELDS -- 11 FOUNDATIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE RECONSTRUCTION THEOREM -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- APPENDIX: ABSTRACT DUALITY THEORY FOR SYMMETRIC TENSOR *- CATEGORIES -- A CATEGORICAL PRELIMINARIES -- B ABSTRACT DUALITY THEORY FOR SYMMETRIC TENSOR *-CATEGORIES -- PART B -- CHAPTER 9. COMPENDIUM OF THE FOUNDATIONS OF CLASSICAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 ORTHODOX THERMODYNAMICS -- 3 KINETIC THEORY FROM BERNOULLI TO MAXWELL -- 4 BOLTZMANN -- 5 GIBBS' STATISTICAL MECHANICS -- 6 MODERN APPROACHES TO STATISTICAL MECHANICS -- 7 STOCHASTIC DYNAMICS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CHAPTER 10. QUANTUM STATISTICAL PHYSICS -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 EARLY SUCCESSES -- 3 AXIOMATIC PRUNINGS -- 4 THE KMS CONDITION FOR EQUILIBRIUM -- 5 KMS CONDITION, QSP AND THERMODYNAMICS -- 6 WHENCE AND WHITHER QSP? -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CHAPTER 11. ISSUES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF COSMOLOGY -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 OUTLINE OF COSMOLOGY -- 3 ISSUE A: THE UNIQUENESS OF THE UNIVERSE -- 4 ISSUE B: THE LARGE SCALE OF THE UNIVERSE IN SPACE AND TIME -- 5 ISSUE C: THE UNBOUND ENERGIES IN THE EARLY UNIVERSE. , 6 ISSUE D: EXPLAINING THE UNIVERSE - THE QUESTION OF ORIGINS -- 7 ISSUE E: THE UNIVERSE AS THE BACKGROUND FOR EXISTENCE -- 8 ISSUE F: THE EXPLICIT PHILOSOPHICAL BASIS -- 9 KEY ISSUES -- 10 CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- SUMMARY TABLE OF ISSUES AND THESES -- CHAPTER 12. QUANTUM GRAVITY -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 APPROACHES -- 3 METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES -- 4 THE NATURE OF SPACE AND TIME -- 5 RELATION WITH OTHER OPEN PROBLEMS -- 6 CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CHAPTER 13. SYMMETRIES AND INVARIANCES IN CLASSICAL PHYSICS -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 SYMMETRIES OF OBJECTS AND OF LAWS -- 3 SYMMETRY AND GROUP THEORY: EARLY HISTORY -- 4 WHAT ARE SYMMETRIES IN PHYSICS? DEFINITIONS AND VARIETIES -- 5 SOME APPLICATIONS OF SYMMETRIES IN CLASSICAL PHYSICS -- 6 GENERAL COVARIANCE IN GENERAL RELATIVITY -- 7 NOETHER'S THEOREMS -- 8 THE INTERPRETATION OF SYMMETRIES IN CLASSICAL PHYSICS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CHAPTER 14. ASPECTS OF DETERMINISM IN MODERN PHYSICS -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 PRELIMINARIES -- 3 DETERMINISM AND INDETERMINISM IN CLASSICAL PHYSICS -- 4 DETERMINISM IN SPECIAL RELATIVISTIC PHYSICS -- 5 DETERMINISM AND INDETERMINISM IN ORDINARY QM -- 6 DETERMINISM IN CLASSICAL GTR -- 7 DETERMINISM IN RELATIVISTIC QFT -- 8 DETERMINISM AND QUANTUM GRAVITY -- 9 CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.