David Bohm: Causality and Chance, Letters to Three Women (eBook)

A lifelong socialist, Chris Talbot has a PhD in General Relativity. He lectured in mathematics at the University of Huddersfield, researching in Engineering Mathematics. Now retired he has returned to work on the early letters of David Bohm whom he greatly admired as a student with an interest in Marxist philosophy.

Part 1 Introduction: Introduction.- The Causal Interpretation and Causality and Chance.-  Bohm After Brazil.- Growing Recognition of Bohm's Causal Interpretation.-  Introduction to the Letters.-  Bohm's Philosophy as Revealed by the Letters.-  Bohm on Mathematics.-  Development of the Causal Interpretation.-  Notes on Probabilty and Statistical Mechanics.-  Bohm and Feminism.-  Bohm and Politics.- The USSR, Philosophy and Science.- A "Precious Being" in Adversity.- Part 2 The Letters: Letters to Hanna Loewy, 1950.- Letters to Hanna Loeewy and Lilly Kahler, 1951-53.- Letters to Melba Phillips, October-December, 1951.- Letters to Melba Phillips, 1952.- Letters to Melba Phillips, 1953-4.-Letters to Melba Phillips, 1955-6.- Letters to Miriam Yevick, October-December, 1951.- Letters Miriam Yevick, 1952, Part 1.- Letters to Miriam Yevick, 1952, Part 2.- Letters to Miriam Yevick, 1952 Part 3.- Letters to Miriam Yevick, 1952, Part 4.- Letters to Miriam Yevick,  1952, Part 5.- Letters to Miriam Yevick,  1953, Part 1.- Letters to Miriam Yevick, 1953, Part 2.-Letters to Miriam Yevick,1953, Part 3.- Letters to Miriam Yevick, 1954, Part 1.- Letters to Miriam Yevick, 1954, Part 2.- Letters to Miriam Yevick, 1954, Part 3.- Letters to Miriam Yevick, 1954, Part 4.- Single Pages of Letters to Miriam Yevick and Letter to George Yevick.