Perspectives on Quantum Reality

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

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.

• field theory
• gravity
• mechanics
• quantum field
• quantum field theory
• quantum mechanics
• reduction
• relativistic quantum mechanics
• relativity
• science
• theory of relativity

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

  Rob Clifton

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