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<blockquote>Such pricing practices are not justified when one considers that many publishers provide very little copyediting or typesetting any more, as is obvious from the "[[TeX]]"-ish look of most books published recently, this one included.<ref name="Mayer">{{Cite journal|last=Mayer|first=Meinhard E.|author-link=Meinhard E. Mayer|date=2008-01-11|title=none |journal=[[Physics Today]]|language=en|volume=47|issue=12|pages=65–66|doi=10.1063/1.2808757|issn=0031-9228}}</ref></blockquote>
Mermin, Mayer and Baez noted that Peres briefly dismissed the [[many-worlds interpretation]] of quantum mechanics.<ref name="Mermin" /><ref name="Baez"/><ref name="Mayer"/> Peres argued that all varieties of many-worlds interpretations merely shifted the arbitrariness or vagueness of the [[wavefunction collapse]] idea to the question of when "worlds" can be regarded as separate, and that no objective criterion for that separation can actually be formulated.{{efn|Section 12-1, "The ambivalent observer", p. 374}} Moreover, Peres dismissed "spontaneous collapse" models like [[Ghirardi–Rimini–Weber theory]] in the same brief section, designating them "mutations" of quantum mechanics.<ref name="Mermin"/> In a review that praised the book's thoroughness, Tony Sudbery noted that Peres disparaged the idea that human consciousness plays a special role in quantum mechanics.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Sudbery |first=Tony |date=April 1994 |title=Ordinary questions, extraordinary answers |url=https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2058-7058/7/4/42 |journal=[[Physics World]] |volume=7 |issue=4 |pages=65–68 |doi=10.1088/2058-7058/7/4/42 |issn=0953-8585|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
Manuel Bächtold analyzed Peres' textbook from a standpoint of [[Pragmatism|philosophical pragmatism]].<ref name="Healey">{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/quantum-bayesian/|title=[[Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]]|last=Healey|first=Richard|publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, [[Stanford University]]|year=2016|editor-last=Zalta|editor-first=Edward N.|chapter=Quantum-Bayesian and Pragmatist Views of Quantum Theory}}</ref> [[John Horton Conway|John Conway]] and [[Simon B. Kochen|Simon Kochen]] used a Kochen–Specker configuration from the book in order to prove their [[free will theorem]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Conway|first1=John|author-link=John Horton Conway|last2=Kochen|first2=Simon|author-link2=Simon B. Kochen|date=2006-11-22|title=The Free Will Theorem|url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10701-006-9068-6|journal=[[Foundations of Physics]]|language=en|volume=36|issue=10|pages=1441–1473|arxiv=quant-ph/0604079|bibcode=2006FoPh...36.1441C|doi=10.1007/s10701-006-9068-6|s2cid=12999337 |issn=0015-9018}}</ref> Peres' insistence in his textbook that the classical analogue of a [[quantum state]] is a [[Liouville's theorem (Hamiltonian)|Liouville density function]] was influential in the development of [[QBism]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|first1=Christopher A. |last1=Fuchs |first2=Blake C. |last2=Stacey |title=QBism: Quantum Theory as a Hero's Handbook |encyclopedia=Proceedings of the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi" |editor-first1=E. M. |editor-last1=Rasel |editor-first2=W. P. |editor-last2=Schleich |editor-link2=Wolfgang P. Schleich |editor-first3=S. |editor-last3=Wölk |doi=10.3254/978-1-61499-937-9-133 |arxiv=1612.07308 |year=2019 |volume=197 |issue=Foundations of Quantum Theory |pages=133–202 |publisher=[[IOS Press]] |isbn=9781614999379 |oclc=1086375617}}</ref>
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