Epistemological Letters
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Epistemological Letters (French: Lettres Épistémologiques) was a hand-typed, mimeographed "underground" newsletter about quantum physics that was distributed to a private mailing list, described by the physicist and Nobel laureate John Clauser as a "quantum subculture", between 1973 and 1984.[2][3]
Discipline | Quantum physics |
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Language | English |
Edited by | Abner Shimony and others |
Publication details | |
History | 1973–1984 |
Publisher | L'Institut de la Méthode of the Association Ferdinand Gonseth[1] (Switzerland) |
Frequency | Irregular |
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM · MathSciNet | |
ISO 4 | Epistemol. Lett. |
Indexing CODEN · JSTOR · LCCN MIAR · NLM · Scopus | |
OCLC no. | 52305299 |
Distributed by a Swiss foundation, the newsletter was created because mainstream academic journals were reluctant to publish articles about the philosophy of quantum mechanics, especially anything that implied support for ideas such as action at a distance.[4] Thirty-six or thirty-seven issues of Epistemological Letters appeared, each between four and eighty-nine pages long.[5] Several well-known scientists published their work there, including the physicist John Bell, the originator of Bell's theorem.[4] According to John Clauser, much of the early work on Bell's theorem was published only in Epistemological Letters.[2][6]