Philosophers Look at Quantum Mechanics

ISBN-13: 9783030156589 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 312 str.

Alberto Cordero

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Introduction: Philosophers Look at Quantum Mechanics

Alberto Cordero

Part I: Bell’s Theorem and the Debate on Realism

Chapter 1: Inseparable Twins

Victor Gomez-Pin

Chapter 2: Bell’s Theorem, Realism, and Locality

Peter Lewis

Chapter 3: The Universal and the Local in Quantum Theory

Tim Maudlin

Part II: Ontological Explorations of QM

Chapter 4: The Reality of the Wavefunction: Old Arguments and New

Harvey Brown

Chapter 5: Preliminary Considerations on the Emergence of Space and Time

David Albert

Chapter 6: Decoherence and Ontology

Roland Omnès

Chapter 7: Bohmian Mechanics and its Ontological Commitments

James Cushing

Chapter 8: The Nomological Interpretation of the Wave Function

Albert Solé and Carl Hoefer

Chapter 9: Scientific Realism Meets the Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics

Juha Saatsi

Chapter 10: Structural Realism and the Standard Model

Steven French

Part IV: Individuals, Individuation, and QM

Chapter 11: The Problem of Individualism from Greek Thought to Quantum Physics

Peter Mittlestatedt

Chapter 12: Weyl, Identity, Indiscernibility, Realism

Otavio Bueno

Part V: Copenhagen Insights Revisited

Chapter 13: What is Really There in the Quantum World?

Jeffrey Bub

Chapter 14: A Foundational Principle for Quantum Mechanics

Anton Zeilinger

Part VI: Calls to Reconceptualize QM

Chapter 15: A Reconstruction of Quantum Mechanics

Simon Kochen

Chapter 16: What is orthodox quantum mechanics?

David Wallace

O autorze

Alberto Cordero (Ph.D Maryland, M.Phil Cambridge, M.Sc. Oxford, Lic.Sc. UNI): Full Professor of Philosophy and History, City University of New York at the CUNY Graduate Center and Queens College CUNY. Numerary Member of the Academie Internationale de.

Blurb

This edited volume explores the philosophical implications of quantum mechanics. It features papers from venues of the International Ontology Congress (IOC) up to 2016. IOC is a worldwide platform for dialogue and reflection on the interactions between science and philosophy.

The collection features philosophers as well as physicists, including David Albert, Harvey Brown, Jeffrey Bub, Otávio Bueno, James Cushing, Steven French, Victor Gomez-Pin, Carl Hoefer, Simon Kochen, Peter Lewis, Tim Maudlin, Peter Mittlestatedt, Roland Omnès, Juha Saatsi, Albert Solé, David Wallace, and Anton Zeilinger.

Since the early days of quantum mechanics, philosophers have studied the subject with growing technical skill and fruitfulness. Their efforts have unveiled intellectual bridges between physics and philosophy. These connections have helped fuel the contemporary debate about the scope and limits of realism and understanding in the interpretation of physical theories and scientific theories in general. The philosophical analysis of quantum mechanics is now one of the most sophisticated and productive areas in contemporary philosophy, as the papers in this collection illustrate.