Commutativity, Comeasurability, and Contextuality in the Kochen-Specker Arguments

Philosophy of Science 88 (3):483-510 (2021)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

I will argue that Kochen-Specker arguments do not provide an algebraic proof for quantum contextuality since, for the argument to be effective, operators must be uniquely associated with measur...

Categories

Keywords

DOI

10.1086/712881

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 86,507

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Similar books and articles

The Kochen-Specker and Conway-Kochen Theorems.Ahmed Barbar - unknown
Neutron Matter Wave Quantum Optics.Helmut Rauch - 2012 - Foundations of Physics 42 (6):760-777.
Schütte's tautology and the Kochen-Specker theorem.Jeffrey Bub - 1996 - Foundations of Physics 26 (6):787-806.
Contextualism and Nonlocality in Quantum Mechanics.Michael William Kernaghan - 1995 - Dissertation, The University of Western Ontario (Canada)
Nonlocality and the Kochen-Specker paradox.Peter Heywood & Michael L. G. Redhead - 1983 - Foundations of Physics 13 (5):481-499.
Observables have No Value: A no-go Theorem for Position and Momentum Observables. [REVIEW]Alberto C. de la Torre - 2007 - Foundations of Physics 37 (8):1243-1252.
Parity Proofs of the Kochen–Specker Theorem Based on the 120-Cell.Mordecai Waegell & P. K. Aravind - 2014 - Foundations of Physics 44 (10):1085-1095.
Must hidden variables theories be contextual? Kochen & Specker meet von Neumann and Gleason.Pablo Acuña - 2021 - European Journal for Philosophy of Science 11 (2):1-30.
Quantum Physics with Neutrons: From Spinor Symmetry to Kochen-Specker Phenomena. [REVIEW]Helmut Rauch - 2012 - Foundations of Physics 42 (1):153-172.
Conway–Kochen and the Finite Precision Loophole.Ronnie Hermens - 2014 - Foundations of Physics 44 (10):1038-1048.
Bell Non-locality and Kochen–Specker Contextuality: How are They Connected?Adán Cabello - 2021 - Foundations of Physics 51 (3):1-13.
Contextuality and Nonlocality in 'No Signaling' Theories.Jeffrey Bub & Allen Stairs - 2009 - Foundations of Physics 39 (7):690-711.
Do quantum-mechanical systems always possess definite properties dictated by their states?Tomasz Bigaj - 2006 - Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 91 (1):375-394.
The Logos Categorical Approach to Quantum Mechanics: I. Kochen-Specker Contextuality and Global Intensive Valuations.Christian de Ronde & Cesar Massri - unknown
Contextuality and Indistinguishability.Acacio de Barros, Federico Holik & Décio Krause - 2017 - Entropy 19 ((9)):435.

Analytics

Added to PP
2021-06-19

Downloads
10 (#986,672)

6 months
2 (#525,456)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Citations of this work

Three noncontextual hidden variable models for the Peres-Mermin square.Gábor Hofer-Szabó - 2021 - European Journal for Philosophy of Science 11 (1):1-12.
Two concepts of noncontextuality in quantum mechanics.Gábor Hofer-Szabó - 2022 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 93 (C):21-29.
Sequential Measurements and the Kochen–Specker Arguments.Gábor Hofer-Szabó - forthcoming - Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie:1-14.

Add more citations

References found in this work

The Problem of Hidden Variables in Quantum Mechanics.Simon Kochen & E. P. Specker - 1967 - Journal of Mathematics and Mechanics 17:59--87.
Events and processes in the quantum world.Abner Shimony - 1986 - In Roger Penrose & C. J. Isham (eds.), Quantum Concepts in Space and Time. New York ;Oxford University Press. pp. 182--203.
Three noncontextual hidden variable models for the Peres-Mermin square.Gábor Hofer-Szabó - 2021 - European Journal for Philosophy of Science 11 (1):1-12.
Two concepts of noncontextuality in quantum mechanics.Gábor Hofer-Szabó - 2022 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 93 (C):21-29.
The problem of contextuality and the impossibility of experimental metaphysics thereof.Ronnie Hermens - 2011 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 42 (4):214-225.

View all 9 references / Add more references