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41A Paradox of Information.A Comment on Miller's New Paradox of Information.A Paradox of Zero Information.Miller's So-called Paradox: A Reply to Professor J. L. Mackie.Miller's paradox of Information.The Straight and Narrow Rule of Induction: A Reply to Dr Bub and Mr Radner.New Mysteries for Old: The Transfiguration of Miller's ParadoxJournal of Symbolic Logic 35 (1): 124-127. 1970.
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24IntroductionStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 34 (3): 339-341. 2003.Special Issue on Quantum Information and Computation.
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277Characterizing quantum theory in terms of information-theoretic constraintsFoundations of Physics 33 (11): 1561-1591. 2002.We show that three fundamental information-theoretic constraints -- the impossibility of superluminal information transfer between two physical systems by performing measurements on one of them, the impossibility of broadcasting the information contained in an unknown physical state, and the impossibility of unconditionally secure bit commitment -- suffice to entail that the observables and state space of a physical theory are quantum-mechanical. We demonstrate the converse derivation in part, a…Read more
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29Indeterminacy and Enlanglemenl: The Challenge of QuantumIn Peter Clark & Katherine Hawley (eds.), Philosophy of Science Today, Oxford University Press Uk. pp. 236. 2003.
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Quantum versus classical informationIn Olimpia Lombardi, Sebastian Fortin, Federico Holik & Cristian López (eds.), What is Quantum Information?, Cup. 2017.
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Two dogmas about quantum mechanicsIn Simon Saunders, Jonathan Barrett, Adrian Kent & David Wallace (eds.), Many Worlds?: Everett, Quantum Theory, & Reality, Oxford University Press. 2010.
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37Understanding the Frauchiger–Renner ArgumentFoundations of Physics 51 (2): 1-9. 2021.In 2018, Daniela Frauchiger and Renato Renner published an article in Nature Communications entitled ‘Quantum theory cannot consistently describe the use of itself.’ The argument has been attacked as flawed from a variety of interpretational perspectives. I clarify the significance of the result as a sequence of actions and inferences by agents modeled as quantum systems evolving unitarily at all times. At no point does the argument appeal to a ‘collapse’ of the quantum state following a measure…Read more
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32The Conceptual Foundations of Contemporary Relativity Theory. J. C. GravesPhilosophy of Science 41 (4): 431-433. 1974.
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Indeterminacy and Entanglement: The Challenge of Quantum MechanicsIn Peter Clark & Katherine Hawley (eds.), Philosophy of Science Today, Oxford University Press Uk. 2003.
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367The Bare Theory Has No ClothesIn Richard Healey & Geoffrey Hellman (eds.), Quantum Measurement: Beyond Paradox, University of Minnesota Press. pp. 32-51. 1998.We criticize the bare theory of quantum mechanics -- a theory on which the Schrödinger equation is universally valid, and standard way of thinking about superpositions is correct.
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71In defense of a “single-world” interpretation of quantum mechanicsStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 72 251-255. 2020.
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41Quantum Physics and the Philosophical Tradition. Aage Petersen (review)Philosophy of Science 37 (1): 156-158. 1970.
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85The Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics. D. I. Blokhintsev (review)Philosophy of Science 37 (1): 153-156. 1970.
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Is Cognitive Neuropsychology Possible?PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1994 417-427. 1994.The aim of cognitive neuropsychology is to articulate the functional architecture underlying normal cognition, on the basis of cognitive performance data involving brain-damaged subjects. Glymour formulates a discovery problem for cognitive neuropsychology, in the sense of formal learning theory, concerning the existence of a reliable methodology, and argues that the problem is insoluble: granted certain apparently plausible assumptions about the form of neuropsychological theories and the natur…Read more
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9The Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 40 (2): 191-211. 1989.
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102Interference, noncommutativity, and determinateness in quantum mechanicsTopoi 14 (1): 39-43. 1995.I consider to what extent the phenomenon of interference precludes the possibility of attributing simultaneously determinate values to noncommuting observables, and I show that, while all observables can in principle be taken as simultaneously determinate, it suffices to take a suitable privileged observable as determinate to solve the measurement problem.
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6Review: Under the Spell of Bohr (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 24 (1). 1973.
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26John von Neumann and the Foundations of Quantum PhysicsSpringer Verlag. 2013.John von Neumann (1903-1957) was undoubtedly one of the scientific geniuses of the 20th century. The main fields to which he contributed include various disciplines of pure and applied mathematics, mathematical and theoretical physics, logic, theoretical computer science, and computer architecture. Von Neumann was also actively involved in politics and science management and he had a major impact on US government decisions during, and especially after, the Second World War. There exist several p…Read more
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108Hidden Variables and the Copenhagen Interpretation—A Reconciliation1British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 19 (3): 185-210. 1968.
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38Quantum mechanics without the projection postulateFoundations of Physics 22 (5): 737-754. 1992.I show that the quantum state ω can be interpreted as defining a probability measure on a subalgebra of the algebra of projection operators that is not fixed (as in classical statistical mechanics) but changes with ω and appropriate boundary conditions, hence with the dynamics of the theory. This subalgebra, while not embeddable into a Boolean algebra, will always admit two-valued homomorphisms, which correspond to the different possible ways in which a set of “determinate” quantities (selected …Read more
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