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    Email: Unruh@ physics. Ubc. ca.is Quantum Mechanics Non-Local - 2002 - In Tomasz Placek & Jeremy Butterfield, Non-locality and Modality. Dordrecht and Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
  2. ‘Many Minds’ Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics.Michael Lockwood - 1996 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 47 (2):159-88.
  3. Contexts, Systems and Modalities: A New Ontology for Quantum Mechanics.Alexia Auffèves & Philippe Grangier - 2016 - Foundations of Physics 46 (2):121-137.
    In this article we present a possible way to make usual quantum mechanics fully compatible with physical realism, defined as the statement that the goal of physics is to study entities of the natural world, existing independently from any particular observer’s perception, and obeying universal and intelligible rules. Rather than elaborating on the quantum formalism itself, we propose a new quantum ontology, where physical properties are attributed jointly to the system, and to the context in which (...)
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  4. What is an element? What is the periodic table? And what does quantum mechanics contribute to the question?Eric R. Scerri - 2011 - Foundations of Chemistry 14 (1):69-81.
    This article considers two important traditions concerning the chemical elements. The first is the meaning of the term “element” including the distinctions between element as basic substance, as simple substance and as combined simple substance. In addition to briefly tracing the historical development of these distinctions, I make comments on the recent attempts to clarify the fundamental notion of element as basic substance for which I believe the term “element” is best reserved. This discussion has focused on the writings of (...)
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  5. Is the Statistical Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics ψ-Ontic or ψ-Epistemic?Mario Hubert - 2023 - Foundations of Physics 53 (16):1-23.
    The ontological models framework distinguishes ψ-ontic from ψ-epistemic wave- functions. It is, in general, quite straightforward to categorize the wave-function of a certain quantum theory. Nevertheless, there has been a debate about the ontological status of the wave-function in the statistical interpretation of quantum mechanics: is it ψ-epistemic and incomplete or ψ-ontic and complete? I will argue that the wave- function in this interpretation is best regarded as ψ-ontic and incomplete.
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  6. The history of quantum mechanics as a decisive argument favoring Einstein over lorentz.R. M. Nugayev - 1985 - Philosophy of Science 52 (1):44-63.
    PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE, vol. 52, number 1, pp.44-63. R.M. Nugayev, Kazan State |University, USSR. -/- THE HISTORY OF QUANTUM THEORY AS A DECISIVE ARGUMENT FAVORING EINSTEIN OVER LJRENTZ. -/- Abstract. Einstein’s papers on relativity, quantum theory and statistical mechanics were all part of a single research programme ; the aim was to unify mechanics and electrodynamics. It was this broader program – which eventually split into relativistic physics and quantummmechanics – that superseded Lorentz’s theory. The argument (...)
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  7. Whence deep realism for Everettian quantum mechanics?Raoni Arroyo & Jonas R. Becker Arenhart - 2022 - Foundations of Physics 52 (6):121.
    ‘Shallow’ and ‘deep’ versions of scientific realism may be distinguished as follows: the shallow realist is satisfied with belief in the existence of the posits of our best scientific theories; by contrast, deep realists claim that realism can be legitimate only if such entities are described in metaphysical terms. We argue that this methodological discussion can be fruitfully applied in Everettian quantum mechanics, specifically on the debate concerning the existence of worlds and the recent dispute between Everettian actualism (...)
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    Typicality vs. Probability in Trajectory-Based Formulations of Quantum Mechanics.Bruno Galvan - 2007 - Foundations of Physics 37 (11):1540-1562.
    Bohmian mechanics represents the universe as a set of paths with a probability measure defined on it. The way in which a mathematical model of this kind can explain the observed phenomena of the universe is examined in general. It is shown that the explanation does not make use of the full probability measure, but rather of a suitable set function deriving from it, which defines relative typicality between single-time cylinder sets. Such a set function can also be derived (...)
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    States vs. Changes of States: A Reformulation of the Ontic vs. Epistemic Distinction in Quantum Mechanics.Joanna Luc - 2022 - Foundations of Physics 53 (1):1-35.
    In this paper, I challenge the distinction between “epistemic” and “ontic” states propounded by Harrigan and Spekkens (Found Phys 40:125–157, 2010) by pointing out that because knowledge is factive, any state that represents someone’s knowledge about a physical system thereby also represents something about the physical system itself, so there is no such thing as “mere knowledge”. This criticism leads to the reformulation of the main question of the debate: instead of asking whether a given state is ontic or epistemic, (...)
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  10. The Kochen - Specker theorem in quantum mechanics: a philosophical comment (part 2).Vasil Penchev - 2013 - Philosophical Alternatives 22 (3):74-83.
    The text is a continuation of the article of the same name published in the previous issue of Philosophical Alternatives. The philosophical interpretations of the Kochen- Specker theorem (1967) are considered. Einstein's principle regarding the,consubstantiality of inertia and gravity" (1918) allows of a parallel between descriptions of a physical micro-entity in relation to the macro-apparatus on the one hand, and of physical macro-entities in relation to the astronomical mega-entities on the other. The Bohmian interpretation ( 1952) of quantum (...) proposes that all quantum systems be interpreted as dissipative ones and that the theorem be thus derstood. The conclusion is that the continual representation, by force or (gravitational) field between parts interacting by means of it, of a system is equivalent to their mutual entanglement if representation is discrete. Gravity (force field) and entanglement are two different, correspondingly continual and discrete, images of a single common essence. General relativity can be interpreted as a superluminal generalization of special relativity. The postulate exists of an alleged obligatory difference between a model and reality in science and philosophy. It can also be deduced by interpreting a corollary of the heorem. On the other hand, quantum mechanics, on the basis of this theorem and of V on Neumann's (1932), introduces the option that a model be entirely identified as the modeled reality and, therefore, that absolutely reality be recognized: this is a non-standard hypothesis in the epistemology of science. Thus, the true reality begins to be understood mathematically, i.e. in a Pythagorean manner, for its identification with its mathematical model. A few linked problems are highlighted: the role of the axiom of choice forcorrectly interpreting the theorem; whether the theorem can be considered an axiom; whether the theorem can be considered equivalent to the negation of the axiom. (shrink)
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    A Critical Analysis of ‘Relative Facts Do Not Exist: Relational Quantum Mechanics Is Incompatible with Quantum Mechanics’ by Jay Lawrence, Marcin Markiewicz and Marek Źukowski.Aurélien Drezet - 2023 - Foundations of Physics 54 (1):1-8.
    We discuss a recent work by J. Lawrence et al. [arxiv.org/abs/2208.11793] criticizing relational quantum mechanics (RQM) and based on a famous nonlocality theorem Going back to Greenberger Horne and Zeilinger (GHZ). Here, we show that the claims presented in this recent work are unjustified and we debunk the analysis.
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    (1 other version)Formal Problems of Probability Theory in the Light of Quantum Mechanics II.M. Strauss - 1939 - Synthese 4 (12):49 - 54.
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    Reality, Nonlocality, and Measurement in Quantum Mechanics -.Yuichiro Kitajima - 2015 - Kagaku Tetsugaku 48 (1):49-64.
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    Why Scientific Realists Should Reject the Second Dogma of Quantum Mechanics.Valia Allori - 2020 - In Meir Hemmo & Orly Shenker, Quantum, Probability, Logic: Itamar Pitowsky’s Work and Influence. Springer. pp. 19-48.
    The information-theoretic approach to quantum mechanics, proposed by Bub and Pitowsky, is a realist approach to quantum theory which rejects the “two dogmas” of quantum mechanics: in this theory measurement results are not analysed in terms of something more fundamental, and the quantum state does not represent physical entities. Bub and Pitowsky’s approach has been criticized because their rejection of the first dogma relies on their argument that kinematic explanations are more satisfactory than dynamical (...)
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    Epistemological and mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics.Jerzy Rayski - 1977 - Foundations of Physics 7 (3-4):151-164.
    The concepts of measurement and measurable quantity are discussed. A probabilistic interpretation independent of the arrow of time is recommended and a definition of quantizable physical systems is given. The space of states of information about the physical system is Schwarz space rather than Hilbert space.
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  16. Studien zum wissenschaftlichen Determinismus vor der Entstehung der Quantenmechanik. Von der klassischen Mechanik zur Philosophie Edgar Zilsels (“Studies in the history of scientific determinism before quantum mechanics. From classical mechanics to the philosophy of Edgar Zilsel”).Donata Romizi - 2013 - Dissertation, University of Vienna
  17. Preconditions of predication: From qualia to quantum mechanics.Malcolm Forster - 1991 - Topoi 10 (1):13-26.
    Although in every inductive inference, an act of invention is requisite, the act soon slips out of notice. Although we bind together facts by superinducing upon them a new Conception, this Conception, once introduced and applied, is looked upon as inseparably connected with the facts, and necessarily implied in them. Having once had the phenomena bound together in their minds in virtue of the Conception men can no longer easily restore them back to the detached and incoherent condition in which (...)
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  18. Interpretation and Models in the Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics.Herman Erlichson - 1968 - Dissertation, Columbia University
  19. Non-reflexive Logical Foundation for Quantum Mechanics.Newton C. A. da Costa & Christian de Ronde - 2014 - Foundations of Physics 44 (12):1369-1380.
    On the one hand, non-reflexive logics are logics in which the principle of identity does not hold in general. On the other hand, quantum mechanics has difficulties regarding the interpretation of ‘particles’ and their identity, also known in the literature as ‘the problem of indistinguishable particles’. In this article, we will argue that non-reflexive logics can be a useful tool to account for such quantum indistinguishability. In particular, we will provide a particular non-reflexive logic that can help (...)
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  20. Gaps of reality: Awareness, universe and quantum mechanics Ramon lapiedra explains the unsustainability of the deterministic universe cudntica.Javier Monserrat - 2009 - Pensamiento 65 (246):1133-1140.
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    Entropy and reversibility in the Wigner representation of quantum mechanics.Giovanni Manfredi - 1995 - In Robert J. Russell, Nancey Murphy & Arthur R. Peacocke, Chaos and Complexity. Vatican Observatory Publications. pp. 257.
  22. The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.M. Audi & J. M. Jauch - 1977 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 28 (1):65-74.
     
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  23. Semantic Epistemology Redux: Proof and Validity in Quantum Mechanics.Arnold Cusmariu - 2016 - Logos and Episteme 7 (3):287-303.
    Definitions I presented in a previous article as part of a semantic approach in epistemology assumed that the concept of derivability from standard logic held across all mathematical and scientific disciplines. The present article argues that this assumption is not true for quantum mechanics (QM) by showing that concepts of validity applicable to proofs in mathematics and in classical mechanics are inapplicable to proofs in QM. Because semantic epistemology must include this important theory, revision is necessary. The (...)
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  24. Quantum Reprogramming. Ensemble and Single Systems: A Two-Tier Approach to Quantum Mechanics.E. J. Post - 1995 - Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 181.
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    Quantum Information Biology: From Information Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics to Applications in Molecular Biology and Cognitive Psychology.Masanari Asano, Irina Basieva, Andrei Khrennikov, Masanori Ohya, Yoshiharu Tanaka & Ichiro Yamato - 2015 - Foundations of Physics 45 (10):1362-1378.
    We discuss foundational issues of quantum information biology —one of the most successful applications of the quantum formalism outside of physics. QIB provides a multi-scale model of information processing in bio-systems: from proteins and cells to cognitive and social systems. This theory has to be sharply distinguished from “traditional quantum biophysics”. The latter is about quantum bio-physical processes, e.g., in cells or brains. QIB models the dynamics of information states of bio-systems. We argue that the information (...)
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    Studies in the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics. Patrick Suppes.Richard Healey - 1982 - Isis 73 (1):114-115.
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    Abstract Geometry and Its Applications in Quantum Mechanics.Robert Murray Jones - 2020 - Open Journal of Philosophy 10 (4):423-426.
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  28. Immanent powers versus causal powers (propensities, latencies and dispositions) in quantum mechanics.Christian de Ronde - 2019 - In Diederik Aerts, Dalla Chiara, Maria Luisa, Christian de Ronde & Decio Krause, Probing the meaning of quantum mechanics: information, contextuality, relationalism and entanglement: Proceedings of the II International Workshop on Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information: Physical, Philosophical and Logical Approaches, CLEA, Brussels. New Jersey: World Scientific.
  29. Michael Redhead, Incompleteness, Nonlocality, and Realism: A Prolegomenon to the Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics Reviewed by.James Robert Brown & Kent A. Peacock - 1988 - Philosophy in Review 8 (8):316-320.
     
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  30. What it feels like to be in a superposition, and why: Consciousness and the interpretation of Everett's quantum mechanics.Christoph Lehner - 1997 - Synthese 110 (2):191-216.
    This paper attempts an interpretation of Everett's relative state formulation of quantum mechanics that avoids the commitment to new metaphysical entities like ‘worlds’ or ‘minds’. Starting from Everett's quantum mechanical model of an observer, it is argued that an observer's belief to be in an eigenstate of the measurement (corresponding to the observation of a well-defined measurement outcome) is consistent with the fact that she objectively is in a superposition of such states. Subjective states corresponding to such (...)
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  31. QM and STR: The combining of quantum mechanics and relativity theory.Storrs McCall - 2000 - Philosophy of Science 67 (3):548.
    Combining quantum mechanics with special relativity requires (i) that a spacetime representation of quantum states be found; (ii) that such states, represented as extended along equal-time hyperplanes, be invariant when transformed from one frame to another; and (iii) that collapses of states be instantaneous in every frame. These requirements are met using branching spacetime, in which probabilities of outcomes are represented by the numerical proportions of branches on which the outcomes occur. Quantum states of systems are (...)
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    The Structure and Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.Robert K. Clifton - 1991 - Philosophical Books 32 (3):189-191.
  33. Not Just Many Worlds but Many Universes? A Problem for the Many Worlds View of Quantum Mechanics.Peter Baumann - 2022 - Metaphysica 23 (2):295-305.
    The many-worlds view is one of the most discussed “interpretations” of quantum mechanics. As is well known, this view has some very controversial and much discussed aspects. This paper focuses on one particular problem arising from the combination of quantum mechanics with Special Relativity. It turns out that the ontology of the many-worlds view – the account of what there is and what branches of the universe exist – is relative to inertial frames. If one wants (...)
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  34. Essays on the Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics.Eddy Keming Chen - 2019 - Dissertation, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
    What is the proper metaphysics of quantum mechanics? In this dissertation, I approach the question from three different but related angles. First, I suggest that the quantum state can be understood intrinsically as relations holding among regions in ordinary space-time, from which we can recover the wave function uniquely up to an equivalence class (by representation and uniqueness theorems). The intrinsic account eliminates certain conventional elements (e.g. overall phase) in the representation of the quantum state. It (...)
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    Heisenberg’s Versus Von Neumann’s Indeterminism of Quantum Mechanics.Franz Klaus Jansen - 2018 - Philosophy Study 8 (5).
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  36. Quantum-information conservation. The problem about “hidden variables”, or the “conservation of energy conservation” in quantum mechanics: A historical lesson for future discoveries.Vasil Penchev - 2020 - Energy Engineering (Energy) eJournal (Elsevier: SSRN) 3 (78):1-27.
    The explicit history of the “hidden variables” problem is well-known and established. The main events of its chronology are traced. An implicit context of that history is suggested. It links the problem with the “conservation of energy conservation” in quantum mechanics. Bohr, Kramers, and Slaters (1924) admitted its violation being due to the “fourth Heisenberg uncertainty”, that of energy in relation to time. Wolfgang Pauli rejected the conjecture and even forecast the existence of a new and unknown then (...)
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  37. Recensioni/Reviews-Foundations and Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. In the Light of a Critical-historical Analysis of the Problems and of the Synthesis of the Results.G. Auletta & V. Fano - 2004 - Epistemologia 27 (1):157-160.
     
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    Wie es eigentlich gewesen?The Creation of Quantum Mechanics and the Bohr-Pauli DialogueJohn Hendry.Mara Beller - 1986 - Isis 77 (1):107-109.
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    Use of a darwinian perspective of quantum mechanics to an analysis of science. Contemporary description of the transition from pre-life to life.Nicolás F. Lori, Rui D. N. Travasso & Alex H. Blin - 2010 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 66 (4):911-918.
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    Darboux transformations and isospectral potentials in quantum mechanics.J. López-Bonilla, J. Morales & G. Ovando - 2002 - Apeiron 9 (3):20.
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  41. Oxford Handbook of the History of Interpretations and Foundations of Quantum Mechanics.Massimiliano Badino (ed.) - forthcoming - Oxford, Regno Unito:
     
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  42. From the 'Free Will Theorems' to the 'Choice Ontology' of Quantum Mechanics.Vasil Penchev - 2020 - Philosophy of Science eJournal (Elsevier: SSRN) 13 (33):1-10.
    If the concept of “free will” is reduced to that of “choice” all physical world share the latter quality. Anyway the “free will” can be distinguished from the “choice”: The “free will” involves implicitly certain preliminary goal, and the choice is only the mean, by which it can be achieved or not by the one who determines the goal. Thus, for example, an electron has always a choice but not free will unlike a human possessing both. Consequently, and paradoxically, the (...)
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  43. Perhaps (?), New logical foundations are needed for quantum mechanics.J. Almog - 1978 - Logique Et Analyse 21 (82):251.
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    Quantum Fluctuation Fields and Conscious Experience: How Neurodynamics Transcends Classical and Quantum Mechanics.Hankey Alex - 2017 - Cosmos and History 13 (2):26-33.
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  45. the Theory of Indistinguishable Particles in Quantum Mechanics'(joint paper with P. Teller).Particle Labels - 1992 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 43:201-8.
  46. (1 other version)A Note On "the Dilemma Of Quantum Mechanics".Willis Truitt - 1987 - Diálogos. Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Puerto Rico 22 (49):129-130.
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  47. Die Gegnet And Non-causal Modes Of Description In Quantum Mechanics.James Watson - 2001 - Existentia 11 (1-2):13-25.
     
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    Origin of temporal (t > 0) universe: connecting with relativity, entropy, communication, and quantum mechanics.Francis T. S. Yu - 2020 - Boca Raton: CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group.
    The essence of temporal universe creation is that any analytical solution has to comply with the boundary condition of our universe; dimensionality and causality constraints. The essence of this book is to show that everything has a price within our temporal (t > 0) universe; energy and time.
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  49. A uniqueness theorem for 'no collapse' interpretations of quantum mechanics.with Jeffrey Bub - 2004 - In Jeremy Butterfield & Hans Halvorson, Quantum Entanglements: Selected Papers. New York: Clarendon Press.
  50. Some remarks on classical probability theory in quantum mechanics.G. Gerlich - 1981 - Erkenntnis 16 (3):335 - 338.
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