What is structural realism?

J Ladyman - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 1998 - Elsevier
[T] he structure of this physical world consistently moved farther and farther away from the
world of sense and lost its former anthropomorphic character…. Thus the physical world has …

[PDF][PDF] Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy

EN Zalta, U Nodelman, C Allen… - See http://plato. stanford …, 2002 - academia.edu
After an introductory section, this article will focus on four questions: How should the Kyoto
School be defined? What is meant by its central philosophical concept of “absolute …

[HTML][HTML] Identity and individuality in quantum theory

S French, T Bigaj - 2000 - plato.stanford.edu
What are the metaphysical implications of quantum physics? One way of approaching this
question is to consider the impact of the theory on our understanding of objects as …

Contextuality and indistinguishability

JA De Barros, F Holik, D Krause - Entropy, 2017 - mdpi.com
It is well known that in quantum mechanics we cannot always define consistently properties
that are context independent. Many approaches exist to describe contextual properties, such …

The ontology of quantum field theory: Structural realism vindicated?

D Glick - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 2016 - Elsevier
In this paper I elicit a prediction from structural realism and compare it, not to a historical
case, but to a contemporary scientific theory. If structural realism is correct, then we should …

A Retrospective View of Determinism and

T Ryckman - The philosophy of Ernst Cassirer: A novel assessment, 2015 - degruyter.com
1 Background Quantum mechanics originated in the summer of 1925 in a paper by the 24
yearold Werner Heisenberg seeking “to establish a quantum-theoretical mechanics entirely …

The intelligibility of metaphysical structure

P Finocchiaro - Philosophical Studies, 2019 - Springer
Theories that posit metaphysical structure are able to do much work in philosophy. Some,
however, find the notion of 'metaphysical structure'unintelligible. In this paper, I argue that …

Five indistinguishable spheres

A Heathcote - Axiomathes, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The significance of Max Black's indistinguishable spheres for the nature of particles
in quantum mechanics is discussed, focusing in particular on the use of the idea of weak …

On the categoricity of quantum mechanics

ID Toader - European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 2021 - Springer
The paper offers an argument against an intuitive reading of the Stone-von Neumann
theorem as a categoricity result, thereby pointing out that, against what is usually taken to be …

[PDF][PDF] Probability and Branching in Everettian Quantum Physics

NI Blackshaw - 2023 - research-information.bris.ac.uk
Everettians often claim that their approach is nothing more than quantum mechanics with
unitary time evolution. This thesis focuses on Everettian Quantum Mechanics (EQM) over …