Cordero A. (Ed.) Philosophers Look at Quantum Mechanics

Springer, 2019. — 316 p. — (Synthese Library Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 406). — ISBN: 978-3-030-15658-9.This edited volume explores the philosophical implications of quantum mechanics. It features papers from venues of the International Ontology Congress (IOC) up to 2016. IOC is a worldwide platform for dialogue and reflection on the interactions between science and philosophy.
The collection features philosophers as well as physicists, including David Albert, Harvey Brown, Jeffrey Bub, Otávio Bueno, James Cushing, Steven French, Victor Gomez-Pin, Carl Hoefer, Simon Kochen, Peter Lewis, Tim Maudlin, Peter Mittlestatedt, Roland Omnès, Juha Saatsi, Albert Solé, David Wallace, and Anton Zeilinger.
Since the early days of quantum mechanics, philosophers have studied the subject with growing technical skill and fruitfulness. Their efforts have unveiled intellectual bridges between physics and philosophy. These connections have helped fuel the contemporary debate about the scope and limits of realism and understanding in the interpretation of physical theories and scientific theories in general. The philosophical analysis of quantum mechanics is now one of the most sophisticated and productive areas in contemporary philosophy, as the papers in this collection illustrate.Introduction: Philosophers Look at Quantum Mechanics
Inseparable Twins: A Conversation with Alain Aspect
Bell’s Theorem, Realism, and Locality
The Universal and the Local in Quantum Theory
The Reality of the Wavefunction: Old Arguments and New
Preliminary Considerations on the Emergence of Space and Time
Decoherence and Ontology
Bohmian Mechanics and Its Ontological Commitments
The Nomological Interpretation of the Wave Function
Scientific Realism Meets Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics
Structural Realism and the Standard Model
The Problem of Individualism from Greek Thought to Quantum Physics
Weyl, Identity, Indiscernibility, Realism
What Is Really There in the Quantum World?
A Foundational Principle for Quantum Mechanics
A Reconstruction of Quantum Mechanics
What is Orthodox Quantum Mechanics?