Springer, 2020. — 634 p. — (Jerusalem Studies in Philosophy and History of Science). — ISBN: 978-3-030-34315-6.
This volume provides a broad perspective on the state of the art in the philosophy and conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics. Its essays take their starting point in the work and influence of Itamar Pitowsky, who has greatly influenced our understanding of what is characteristically non-classical about quantum probabilities and quantum logic, and this serves as a vantage point from which they reflect on key ongoing debates in the field. Readers will find a definitive and multi-faceted description of the major open questions in the foundations of quantum mechanics today, including: Is quantum mechanics a new theory of (contextual) probability? Should the quantum state be interpreted objectively or subjectively? How should probability be understood in the Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics? What are the limits of the physical implementation of computation? The impact of this volume goes beyond the exposition of Pitowsky’s influence: it provides a unique collection of essays by leading thinkers containing profound reflections on the field.
Classical Logic, Classical Probability, and Quantum Mechanics
Why Scientific Realists Should Reject the Second Dogma of Quantum Mechanics
Unscrambling Subjective and Epistemic Probabilities
Wigner’s Friend as a Rational Agent
Pitowsky’s Epistemic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics and the PBR Theorem
On the Mathematical Constitution and Explanation of Physical Facts
Eerettian Probabilities, The Deutsch-Wallace Theorem and the Principal Principle
‘Two Dogmas’ Redux
Physical Computability Theses
Agents in Healey’s Pragmatist Quantum Theory: A Comparison with Pitowsky’s Approach to Quantum Mechanics
Quantum Mechanics As a Theory of Observables and States (And, Thereby, As a Theory of Probability)
The Measurement Problem and Two Dogmas About Quantum Mechanics
There Is More Than One Way to Skin a Cat: Quantum Information Principles in a Finite World
Is Quantum Mechanics a New Theory of Probability?
Quantum Mechanics as a Theory of Probability
On the Three Types of Bell’s Inequalities
On the Descriptive Power of Probability Logic
The Argument Against Quantum Computers
Why a Relativistic Quantum Mechanical World Must Be Indeterministic
Subjectivists About Quantum Probabilities Should Be Realists About Quantum States
The Relativistic Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Argument
What Price Statistical Independence? How Einstein Missed the Photon
How (Maximally) Contextual Is Quantum Mechanics?
Roots and (Re)sources of Value (In)definiteness Versus Contextuality
Schrödinger’s Reaction to the EPR Paper
Derivations of the Born Rule
Dynamical States and the Conventionality of (Non-) Classicality