Quantum Information Theory and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (Oxford Philosophical Monographs)

Christopher G. Timpson Provides A Full-length Philosophical Treatment Of Quantum Information Theory And The Questions It Raises For Our Understanding Of The Quantum World. He Argues For An Ontologically Deflationary Account Of The Nature Of Quantum Information, Which Is Grounded In A Revisionary Analysis Of The Concepts Of Information. Introduction -- What Is Information? -- Quantum Information Theory -- Case Study : Teleportation -- The Deutsch-hayden Approach : Nonlocality, Entanglement, And Information Flow -- Quantum Computation And The Church-turing Hypothesis -- Information And The Foundations Of Quantum Mechanics : Preliminaries -- Some Information-theoretic Approaches -- Quantum Bayesianism 1 : The Proposal -- Quantum Bayesianism 2 : Challenges -- Conclusions -- [appendix] A. A Review Of The Quantum Formalism -- [appendix] B. Generalized Uncertainty Measures : Uffink's Axioms. Christopher G. Timpson. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [265]-284) And Index.