“Above the Slough of Despond”: Weylean invariantism and quantum physics

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 61:18-24 (2018)
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This paper considers Weylean invariantism, i.e., the view that objectivity requires categoricity, and argues that if the Stone-von Neumann theorem can be naturally interpreted as a categoricity result, the view is falsified by quantum field theory.

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