Causality and Chance in Modern Physics

Consequently, while it is excellently written, it is now somewhat dated. There are more comprehensive technical expositions of Bohm's theory (especially "The Undivided Universe" Bohm & Hiley, and "The Quantum Theory of Motion" Holland) At the same time, the philosophical debate has moved on. Nevertheless, it remains a very clear examination of the extent to which either randomness or determinism could ever be regarded as 'fundamental', or are simply artefacts of particular scientific theories. It is a very open book, the intention being more to widen the possible conceptions of what quantum theory might mean, rather than advocating a particular approach to quantum theory as being the "correct" one (it would be much to be desired if other writers on the subject would adopt such an attitude!) It also shows, in later chapters, the genesis of ideas the Bohm was later to explore in "Wholeness and the Implicate Order".