I’m not familiar with that book. I learnt QM from a 2-volume, 1500 pages book that gives you Schroedinger’s equation 10 pages in. But that book made no claim of

I’m not familiar with that book. I learnt QM from a 2-volume, 1500 pages book that gives you Schroedinger’s equation 10 pages in. But that book made no claim of being “introductory” and I previously had a “quantum physics” course including the different things that lead to Schroedinger’s equation (Plank, Rutherford, Bohr, etc). In any case introductory books that discuss the physics and not just the mathematics do also exist, like vol 3 in Feynman’s lectures. Edit: I’m looking at Griffiths’ book and after defining Schroedinger’s equation in section 1.1 he devotes three pages to discussing its statistical interpretation in section 1.2 and mentions different interpretations, the Bell inequalities and the measurement problem. He comes back to these philosophical issues at the end of the book in a 12-page afterword.