•  4
    Quantum Entanglement and Information
    Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2001.
  •  15
    Two Dogmas About Quantum Mechanics
    with Itamar Pitowsky
    In Simon Saunders, Jonathan Barrett, Adrian Kent & David Wallace (eds.), Many Worlds?: Everett, Quantum Theory & Reality, Oxford University Press Uk. pp. 433-459. 2010.
    This chapter argues that the intractable part of the measurement problem — the ‘big’ measurement problem — is a pseudo-problem that depends for its legitimacy on the acceptance of two dogmas. The first dogma is John Bell's assertion that measurement should never be introduced as a primitive process in a fundamental mechanical theory like classical or quantum mechanics, but should always be open to a complete analysis, in principle, of how the individual outcomes come about dynamically. The secon…Read more
  • Two dogmas about quantum mechanics
    with Itamar Pitowsky
    In Simon Saunders, Jonathan Barrett, Adrian Kent & David Wallace (eds.), Many Worlds?: Everett, Quantum Theory & Reality, Oxford University Press Uk. 2010.
  •  265
    The philosophy of quantum mechanics
    British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 40 (2): 191-211. 1989.
  •  3
    Postscript to the Logic of Scientific Discovery (review)
    with Itamar Pitowsky
    Canadian Journal of Philosophy 15 (3): 539-552. 1985.
  •  55
    John von Neumann and the Foundations of Quantum Physics
    with Miklós Rédei, Michael Stöltzner, Walter Thirring, and Ulrich Majer
    Springer 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
  •  85
    Poincaré's “Les conceptions nouvelles de la matière”
    with William Demopoulos and Melanie Frappier
    Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 43 (4): 221-225. 2012.
    We present a translation of Poincaré's hitherto untranslated 1912 essay together with a brief introduction describing the essay's contemporary interest, both for Poincaré scholarship and for the history and philosophy of atomism. In the introduction we distinguish two easily conflated strands in Poincaré's thinking about atomism, one focused on the possibility of deciding the atomic hypothesis, the other focused on the question whether it can ever be determined that the analysis of matter has a …Read more
  •  20
    What Is Really There in the Quantum World?
    In Alberto Cordero (ed.), Philosophers Look at Quantum Mechanics, Springer Verlag. pp. 217-233. 2019.
    The state of a classical system represents physical reality by assigning truth values, true or false, to every proposition about the values of the system’s physical quantities. I present an analysis of the Frauchiger-Renner thought experiment (Frauchiger D, Renner R: Single-world interpretations of quantum mechanics cannot be self-consistent. arXiv eprint quant-ph/1604.07422, 2016), an extended version of the ‘Wigner’s friend’ thought experiment (Wigner E: Remarks on the mind-body question. In: …Read more
  •  104
    Introduction
    Studies 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.
  •  462
    Characterizing quantum theory in terms of information-theoretic constraints
    with Rob Clifton and Hans Halvorson
    Foundations 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
  •  192
    Book reviews (review)
    with John Bacon, Alan R. White, M. Glouberman, Lawrence H. Davis, Gershon Weiler, Ilkka Niiniluoto, Yehuda Melzer, Zeev Levy, S. Biderman, Joseph Raz, Irwin C. Lieb, and Michael Ruse
    Philosophia 5 (3): 319-384. 1975.
  •  45
    Indeterminacy and Enlanglemenl: The Challenge of Quantum
    In Peter Clark & Katherine Hawley (eds.), Philosophy of science today, Oxford University Press. pp. 236. 2003.
  • Quantum versus classical information
    In Olimpia Lombardi, Sebastian Fortin, Federico Holik & Cristian López (eds.), What is Quantum Information?, Cambridge University Press. 2017.
  •  518
    Two dogmas about quantum mechanics
    with Itamar Pitowsky
    In Simon Saunders, Jonathan Barrett, Adrian Kent & David Wallace (eds.), Many Worlds?: Everett, Quantum Theory & Reality, Oxford University Press Uk. 2010.
    We argue that the intractable part of the measurement problem -- the 'big' measurement problem -- is a pseudo-problem that depends for its legitimacy on the acceptance of two dogmas. The first dogma is John Bell's assertion that measurement should never be introduced as a primitive process in a fundamental mechanical theory like classical or quantum mechanics, but should always be open to a complete analysis, in principle, of how the individual outcomes come about dynamically. The second dogma i…Read more
  •  88
    Understanding the Frauchiger–Renner Argument
    Foundations 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
  • Indeterminacy and Entanglement: The Challenge of Quantum Mechanics
    In Peter Clark & Katherine Hawley (eds.), Philosophy of science today, Oxford University Press. 2003.
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    The Bare Theory Has No Clothes
    with Rob Clifton and Bradley Monton
    In 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.
  •  163
    In defense of a “single-world” interpretation of quantum mechanics
    Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 72 (C): 251-255. 2020.
  • 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
  •  53
    Incompleteness, Nonlocality, and Realism (review)
    International Studies in Philosophy 22 (3): 140-141. 1990.
  • The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
    British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 27 (3): 295-297. 1976.
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    Hidden Variables and the Copenhagen Interpretation—A Reconciliation1
    British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 19 (3): 185-210. 1968.
  • Rob Clifton (1964-2002)
    International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 17 (1): 93-94. 2003.