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Quantum Theory and Reality

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1967

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Editors:
  1. Mario Bunge

    1. McGill University, Montreal, Canada

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Part of the book series: Studies in the Foundations, Methodology and Philosophy of Science (FOUNDATION, volume 2)

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Table of contents (8 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
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  2. Introduction

    1. The Turn of the Tide

      • Mario Bunge
      Pages 1-6

  3. The Epistemological Issue

    1. Quantum Mechanics without โ€œThe Observerโ€

      • Karl R. Popper
      Pages 7-44

    2. The Problem of Physical Reality in Contemporary Science

      • Henry Mehlberg
      Pages 45-65

  4. ฯˆ, Measurement, and the New Particle Crop

    1. The Quantum State Vector and Physical Reality

      • Peter G. Bergmann
      Pages 66-70

    2. Probabilities in Quantum Mechanics

      • Henry Margenau, Leon Cohen
      Pages 71-89

    3. Hidden Parameters Associated with Possible Internal Motions of Elementary Particles

      • Jean-Pierre Vigier
      Pages 90-97

  5. Objectivistic Foundations of Q.M.

    1. An Axiomatic Foundation of Quantum Mechanics on a Nonsubjective Basis

      • G. Ludwig
      Pages 98-104

    2. A Ghost-Free Axiomatization of Quantum Mechanics

      • Mario Bunge
      Pages 105-117

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 119-119
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The Tum of the Tide During centuries physicists were supposed to be studying the physical world. Since the turn of the century this assumption has often been challenged as naive: it was proclaimed that physics is not about the external world but about observers and their manipUlations: that it is meaningless to talk of anything else than observation devices and operaยญ tions: that the laws of physics concern our knowledge rather than the external world. This view of the nature of physical science has old roots in philoยญ sophy but it was independently reinvented by a number of philosophiยญ cally inclined physicists, notably ERNST MACH. These scientists were disgusted with the school philosophies and they were alarmed by the increasing number of physical concepts which they regarded as metaยญ physical or beyond experimental control, such as those of absolute motion, ether, electromagnetic field, and molecule. Reasonably enough, they wished to keep physics testable. To accomplish this goal they adopted the safe method, namely to banish every idea that could not be closely tied to observation. In this way they certainly avoided the risks of untestable speculation but they also failed to enjoy the benefits of theoretical invention. Furthermore they instituted unawares a new metaยญ physics that was to dominate the philosophy of physics for half a century: the metaphysics according to which the world is made of sense experience.

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  • McGill University, Montreal, Canada

    Mario Bunge

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