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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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283Characterizing 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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39Understanding 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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34The 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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375The 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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85The Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics. D. I. Blokhintsev (review)Philosophy of Science 37 (1): 153-156. 1970.
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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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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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62Quantum logic, conditional probability, and interferencePhilosophy of Science 49 (3): 402-421. 1982.Friedman and Putnam have argued (Friedman and Putnam 1978) that the quantum logical interpretation of quantum mechanics gives us an explanation of interference that the Copenhagen interpretation cannot supply without invoking an additional ad hoc principle, the projection postulate. I show that it is possible to define a notion of equivalence of experimental arrangements relative to a pure state φ , or (correspondingly) equivalence of Boolean subalgebras in the partial Boolean algebra of project…Read more
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11Book Review:Physics and Philosophy: Selected Essays Henry Margenau (review)Philosophy of Science 50 (3): 515-. 1983.
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69From Micro to Macro: A Solution to the Measurement Problem of Quantum MechanicsPSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1988. 1988.Philosophical debate on the measurement problem of quantum mechanics has, for the most part, been confined to the non-relativistic version of the theory. Quantizing quantum field theory, or making quantum mechanics relativistic, yields a conceptual framework capable of dealing with the creation and annihilation of an indefinite number of particles in interaction with fields, i.e. quantum systems with an infinite number of degrees of freedom. I show that a solution to the standard measurement pro…Read more
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32On the structure of quantal proposition systemsFoundations of Physics 24 (9): 1261-1279. 1994.I define sublaltices of quantum propositions that can be taken as having determinate (but perhaps unknown) truth values for a given quantum state, in the sense that sufficiently many two-valued maps satisfying a Boolean homomorphism condition exist on each determinate sublattice to generate a Kolmogorov probability space for the probabilities defined by the slate. I show that these sublattices are maximal, subject to certain constraints, from which it follows easily that they are unique. I discu…Read more
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164Von Neumann’s ‘No Hidden Variables’ Proof: A Re-Appraisal (review)Foundations of Physics 40 (9-10): 1333-1340. 2010.Since the analysis by John Bell in 1965, the consensus in the literature is that von Neumann’s ‘no hidden variables’ proof fails to exclude any significant class of hidden variables. Bell raised the question whether it could be shown that any hidden variable theory would have to be nonlocal, and in this sense ‘like Bohm’s theory.’ His seminal result provides a positive answer to the question. I argue that Bell’s analysis misconstrues von Neumann’s argument. What von Neumann proved was the imposs…Read more
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