Realism and the collapse of the wave-packet

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 39 (2):225-232 (1988)
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Cartwright's argument for the collapse of the wave-packet is criticised. This enables us to rescue realism from the pressure put on it by Cartwright in the context of Quantum Theory

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10.1093/bjps/39.2.225

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