caa a22 4500 469031212 CHVBK 20180323132744.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01883743 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01883743 Prugovečki Eduard Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto, M5S 1A1, Toronto, Canada aut Foundational problems in quantum gravity and quantum cosmology [Elektronische Daten] [Eduard Prugovečki] The conventionalistically based instrumentalist epistemology and methodology underlying the various approaches to the quantization of gravity is contrasted with the operationally based logical analysis practiced by the founders of relativity theory and quantum mechanics in developing their respective disciplines. The foundational problems to which they give rise are described. Their origins are traced to instrumentalist practices which have been in the past the objects of criticisms by Dirac, Heisenberg, Born, and others, but which have nevertheless prevailed in relativistic quantum physics after the emergence of the conventional renormalization program. The operationally based premises of a recently developed geometro-stochastic approach to the quantization of gravity are analyzed. It is shown that their roots lie in the epistemology adopted by the founders of relativity theory and quantum mechanics, and that they reflect a conceptualization of quantum reality which offers the possibility of a resolution of the main foundational problems encountered by the other approaches to quantum gravity. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1992 Foundations of Physics Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 22/6(1992-06-01), 755-806 0015-9018 22:6<755 1992 22 10701 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01883743 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01883743 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Prugovečki Eduard Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto, M5S 1A1, Toronto, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Foundations of Physics Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 22/6(1992-06-01), 755-806 0015-9018 22:6<755 1992 22 10701 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer