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Perspectives on Quantum Reality

Non-Relativistic, Relativistic, and Field-Theoretic

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  • © 1996

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Editors:
  1. Rob Clifton

    1. Department of Philosophy, The University of Western Ontario, Canada

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Part of the book series: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science (WONS, volume 57)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. In Defense of Dogma: Why There Cannot be a Relativistic Quantum Mechanics of (Localizable) Particles

    • David B. Malament
    Pages 1-10

  3. Just How Radical is Hyperplane Dependence?

    • Gordon Fleming
    Pages 11-28

  4. Is There Superluminal Causation in Relativistic Quantum Field Theory?

    • Miklós Rédei
    Pages 29-42

  5. EPR, Relativity, and the GHZ Experiment

    • Constantine Pagonis, Michael Redhead, Patrick La Rivière
    Pages 43-55

  6. Hidden Quantum Non-Locality

    • N. David Mermin
    Pages 57-71

  7. Royer’s Measurements — The Rise and Fall of (Yet Another) Signalling Scheme

    • Itamar Pitowsky
    Pages 73-79

  8. Tails of Schrödinger’s Cat

    • David Z. Albert, Barry Loewer
    Pages 81-92

  9. Wavefunction Collapse Models with Nonwhite Noise

    • Philip Pearle
    Pages 93-109

  10. The Emergence of Classical Properties from Quantum Mechanics

    • Leslie E. Ballentine
    Pages 111-124

  11. Relativism

    • Simon Saunders
    Pages 125-142

  12. Wave and Particle Concepts in Quantum Field Theory

    • Paul Teller
    Pages 143-154

  13. The Conceptual Relation between Standard Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory

    • Don Robinson
    Pages 155-165

  14. What Measurement Problem?

    • James T. Cushing
    Pages 167-181

  15. Bovine Metaphysics: Remarks on the Significance of the Gravitational Phase Effect in Quantum Mechanics

    • Harvey R. Brown
    Pages 183-193

  16. Exotic (Quixotic?) Applications of Bohm Theory

    • Robert Weingard
    Pages 195-210

  17. Complementarity and the Orthodox (Dirac-von Neumann) Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

    • Jeffrey Bub
    Pages 211-226

  18. Logical Reflections on the Kochen-Specker Theorem

    • John L. Bell
    Pages 227-235

  19. Construction of Quantum Mechanics Via Commutative Operations

    • Simon Kochen
    Pages 237-243
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But to admit things not visible to the gross creatures that we are is, in my opinion, to show a decent humility, and not just a lamentable addiction to metaphysics. J. S. Bell, Are There Quantum Jumps? ON CANADIAN THANKSGIVING WEEKEND in the autumn of 1994, a lively conference was held at The University of Western Ontario under the title "Conceptual Problems of Relativistic Quantum Mechanics". Most of the eighteen papers in this volume are directly connected with that conference. Articles by both theoretical physicists and philosophers of science are included, and many authors will be recognized immediately for their already substantive work in the foundations of physics. A quarter century ago Howard Stein suggested that relativistic quantum field theory should be 'the contemporary locus of metaphysical research', but there were few takers. Only fairly recently has that changed, with the result that the bulk of the papers here pursue issues that go beyond nonrelativistic quantum mechanics (or at least have serious implications for its relativistic generalization). Nevertheless, problems interpreting the nonrelativistic theory remain a persistent thorn in the side of any such endeavor, and so some of the papers develop innovative approaches to those issues as well.

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  • Department of Philosophy, The University of Western Ontario, Canada

    Rob Clifton

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