The Wave Function
Essays on the Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics
1st Edition
Published on 8. March 2013
256 pages
978-0-19-979093-7 (ISBN)
Description
This is a new volume of original essays on the metaphysics of quantum mechanics. The essays address questions such as: What fundamental metaphysics is best motivated by quantum mechanics? What is the ontological status of the wave function? Does quantum mechanics support the existence of any other fundamental entities, e.g. particles? What is the nature of the fundamental space (or space-time manifold) of quantum mechanics? What is the relationship between the fundamental ontology of quantum mechanics and ordinary, macroscopic objects like tables, chairs, and persons? This collection includes a comprehensive introduction with a history of quantum mechanics and the debate over its metaphysical interpretation focusing especially on the main realist alternatives.
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Persons
Alyssa Ney is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Rochester. She works primarily in metaphysics.
David Z Albert is the author of Quantum Mechanics and Experience and Time and Chance and has published many articles on quantum mechanics, mostly in the Physical Review. He is Frederick E. Woodbridge Professor of Philosophy and Director of the M.A. Program in The Philosophical Foundations of Physics at Columbia University.
Content
Preface
David Z. Albert and Alyssa Ney
Introduction
Alyssa Ney
Chapter 1. Wave Function Realism
David Z. Albert
Chapter 2. Primitive Ontology and the Structure of Fundamental Physical Theories
Valia Allori
Chapter 3. Whither Wave-Function Realism?
Steven French
Chapter 4. Reality and the Role of the Wavefunction in Quantum Theory
Sheldon Goldstein and Nino Zanghì
Chapter 5. Dimension and Illusion
Peter J. Lewis
Chapter 6. The Nature of the Quantum State
Tim Maudlin
Chapter 7. Against 3N-Dimensional Space
Bradley Monton
Chapter 8. Ontological Reduction and the Wave Function Ontology
Alyssa Ney
Chapter 9. The Structure of a Quantum World
Jill North
Chapter 10. A Prolegomenon to the Ontology of the Everett Interpretation
David Wallace
