The quantum measurement problem: State of play

In Dean Rickles (ed.), The Ashgate Companion to Contemporary Philosophy of Physics. Ashgate (2008)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

This is a preliminary version of an article to appear in the forthcoming Ashgate Companion to the New Philosophy of Physics.In it, I aim to review, in a way accessible to foundationally interested physicists as well as physics-informed philosophers, just where we have got to in the quest for a solution to the measurement problem. I don't advocate any particular approach to the measurement problem (not here, at any rate!) but I do focus on the importance of decoherence theory to modern attempts to solve the measurement problem, and I am fairly sharply critical of some aspects of the "traditional" formulation of the problem.

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 94,070

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

Decoherence and its Role in the Modern Measurement Problem.David Wallace - unknown
Quantum Technology: Where to Look for the Quantum Measurement Problem.Nancy Cartwright - 1995 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 38:73-83.
Quantum Technology: Where to Look for the Quantum Measurement Problem.Nancy Cartwright - 1995 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 38:73-83.
Some Worlds of Quantum Theory.Jeremy Butterfield - 2001 - In R. J. Russell, N. Murphy & C. J. Isham (eds.), Quantum Physics and Divine Action. Vatican Observatory Publications. pp. 111--140.
There is no measurement problem for Humeans.Chris Dorst - 2021 - Noûs 57 (2):263-289.
A New Problem for Quantum Mechanics.Alexander Meehan - 2020 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science:000-000.
A New Problem for Quantum Mechanics.Alexander Meehan - 2022 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 73 (3):631-661.
A New Look at the Quantum Mechanical Problem of Measurement.Nicholas Maxwell - 1972 - American Journal of Physics 40:1431-5..
Selections, dispositions and the problem of measurement.Mauricio Suárez - 2001 - Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science.
Does the Bohm theory solve the measurement problem?Abraham D. Stone - 1994 - Philosophy of Science 61 (2):250-266.

Analytics

Added to PP
2009-01-28

Downloads
270 (#78,441)

6 months
29 (#130,299)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

David Wallace
University of Pittsburgh

Citations of this work

Quantum indeterminacy and the double-slit experiment.Claudio Calosi & Jessica Wilson - 2021 - Philosophical Studies 178 (10):3291-3317.
One world, one beable.Craig Callender - 2015 - Synthese 192 (10):3153-3177.
Symmetry and the Metaphysics of Physics.David John Baker - 2010 - Philosophy Compass 5 (12):1157-1166.
The Crazyist Metaphysics of Mind.Eric Schwitzgebel - 2014 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 92 (4):665-682.

View all 23 citations / Add more citations

References found in this work

Reasons and Persons.Derek Parfit - 1984 - Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.
A Materialist Theory of the Mind.D. M. Armstrong - 1968 - New York: Routledge. Edited by Ted Honderich.
Every thing must go: metaphysics naturalized.James Ladyman & Don Ross - 2007 - New York: Oxford University Press. Edited by Don Ross, David Spurrett & John G. Collier.

View all 135 references / Add more references