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Interpreting Quantum Theory

Part of the New Directions in the Philosophy of Science Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137447159

ISBN: 978-1-349-49619-8

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Oct 24, 2015

1 - 10 of 12 Chapters

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Introduction

Friederich, Simon

Pages: 3 –12

[Quantum theory is perhaps the theory with the greatest predictive and explanatory success in all the history of physics. To name just a few of its countless achievements: it explains the stability of the stable atoms and nuclei and predicts the decay rates of the unstable ones; it accounts for...
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Sketch of the Formalism

Friederich, Simon

Pages: 13 –25

[This chapter reviews the quantum theoretical formalism and sketches its foundational problems. The main function of this chapter is to establish common ground for the interpretive discussions which follow, not to provide a comprehensive introduction to quantum theory.6 Its first section...
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Interpretations as Solutions to the Measurement Problem

Friederich, Simon

Pages: 26 –45

[Interpretations of quantum theory can be usefully categorised according to which moves they make to avoid the measurement problem. The chapter gives a more systematic exposition of that problem, followed by an overview of the answers that are given by the most popular interpretations. As we...
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Motivating a Therapeutic Approach

Friederich, Simon

Pages: 49 –60

[As explained in the previous section, the currently most-discussed interpretations of quantum theory can be classified according to how they (try to) solve the measurement problem. Accounts which are based on what I call the ‘therapeutic’ type of approach to philosophical problems propose a...
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In Search of a Viable Epistemic Account

Friederich, Simon

Pages: 61 –74

[A quantum state, via the Born Rule, assigns probabilities to the different possible values of observables of a quantum system. It is only in virtue of these probabilities — or, alternatively, expectation values — that quantum mechanics is empirically testable. Since assigning a state to a system...
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Quantum Probabilities: What Are They?

Friederich, Simon

Pages: 75 –91

[The previous chapter addressed the challenge of making sense of the notion of a quantum state assignment being performed correctly without thereby acknowledging the notion of a quantum state a quantum system ‘is in’. The present chapter discusses what interpretation of quantum probabilities goes...
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Copenhagen Reloaded?

Friederich, Simon

Pages: 95 –104

[As announced in the introductory chapter, one of the core motivations for the therapeutic approach developed here is to investigate whether the doctrine of the Copenhagen interpretation, that quantum theory is fine as it stands and needs neither completion nor revision nor reinterpretation in...
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The Charge of Anthropocentrism

Friederich, Simon

Pages: 105 –112

[Epistemic accounts of quantum states such as quantum Bayesianism and the Rule Perspective are formulated in terms of notions such as ‘agent’, ‘epistemic situation’, and ‘state assignment’, which are neither themselves fundamental physical notions nor in any evident way reducible to such notions....
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Reduction and Explanation

Friederich, Simon

Pages: 113 –121

[One of the defining aspects of the epistemic conception of quantum states is that it conceives of quantum states as non-descriptive. In this section, I consider the criticism that any non-descriptive reading of quantum states entails an unattractive ontological quantum/classical divide. This...
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Non-locality Reconsidered

Friederich, Simon

Pages: 125 –145

[Adopting a non-ontic account of quantum states does not address all the challenges raised in the literature concerning the alleged incompatibility between quantum theory and special relativity. According to Bell, for instance, there is ‘an apparent incompatibility, at the deepest level, between...

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