Contemporary Quantum Physics Metaphysical Challenge: Looking for a Relational Metaphysics

Richard F. Kitchener

Howard Burton, ARTUR K. EKERT

Yousaf Shahid

Decoherence: A Fresh Look is an interdisciplinary exploration of decoherence as both a scientific concept and a philosophical gateway to deeper questions concerning reality, knowledge, consciousness, causality, and human understanding. The book examines the implications of modern physics—particularly quantum theory, relativity, and the changing scientific conception of reality—for philosophy, metaphysics, and religious thought. It also considers the historical influence of classical determinism, atheism, theism, and major philosophical traditions on humanity’s understanding of God, the universe, and the nature of existence. Drawing inspiration from the intellectual legacy of Allama Muhammad Iqbal, the work seeks to renew the dialogue between science, philosophy, and religion in the context of the twenty-first century. Rather than presenting decoherence merely as a technical physical process, the book treats it as a conceptual point of departure for reconsidering the relationship between observation, consciousness, probability, objectivity, and reality. This book is intended for readers interested in philosophy of science, metaphysics, quantum theory, religious philosophy, consciousness studies, and contemporary discussions concerning the limits and possibilities of human knowledge.

Hossein Ejtehadian, Rasool Rasoolipoor

Divine action in the world is one of the important problematic questions in contemporary philosophy of religion. After new inventions in modern physics during 20’th century some of the scholars claimed that in spite of classical physics in which physical laws constrain divine actions, in modern physics, uncertainty principle could explain and justify God intervention in the world. But quantum mechanics had produced big challenges in ontology and had not straightforward metaphysics and resulted to different interpretations, each suggesting different way to explain divine actions. Bohmian interpretation of quantum mechanics regarding his special metaphysical ideas like implicate order, holomovement and holism presenting novel perspective on this issue. This article investigate relation between Bohmian interpretation of quantum mechanics and divine actions in the world and shows its capacities on this issue.