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188Indeterminacy and entanglement: the challenge of quantum mechanicsBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 51 (4): 597-615. 2000.I explore the nature of the problem generated by the transition from classical to quantum mechanics, and I survey some of the different responses to this problem. I show briefly how recent work on quantum information over the past ten years has led to a shift of focus, in which the puzzling features of quantum mechanics are seen as a resource to be developed rather than a problem to be solved
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8Review: The Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 40 (2). 1989.
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76How to interpret quantum mechanicsErkenntnis 41 (2). 1994.I formulate the interpretation problem of quantum mechanics as the problem of identifying all possible maximal sublattices of quantum propositions that can be taken as simultaneously determinate, subject to certain constraints that allow the representation of quantum probabilities as measures over truth possibilities in the standard sense, and the representation of measurements in terms of the linear dynamics of the theory. The solution to this problem yields a modal interpretation that I show t…Read more
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95Quantum Mechanics as a Principle TheoryStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 31 (1): 75-94. 2000.I show how quantum mechanics, like the theory of relativity, can be understood as a 'principle theory' in Einstein's sense, and I use this notion to explore the approach to the problem of interpretation developed in my book Interpreting the Quantum World.
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15Book Review:Niels Bohr's Philosophy of Physics Dugald Murdoch (review)Philosophy of Science 57 (2): 344-. 1990.
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30Paradigms and paradoxes: The philosophical challenge of the quantum domainPhilosophia 6 (2): 333-344. 1976.
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79Von Neumann's projection postulate as a probability conditionalization rule in quantum mechanicsJournal of Philosophical Logic 6 (1). 1977.
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72Non-Local Hidden Variable Theories and Bell's InequalityPSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1978 45-53. 1978.Bell's proof purports to show that any hidden variable theory satisfying a physically reasonable locality condition is characterized by an inequality which is inconsistent with the quantum statistics. It is shown that Bell's inequality actually characterizes a feature of hidden variable theories which is much weaker than locality in the sense considered physically motivated. We consider an example of non- local hidden variable theory which reproduces the quantum statistics. A simple extension of…Read more
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4The Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics: An Interactive Interpretation by Richard Healey (review)Isis 82 606-607. 1991.
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