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Does science need intersubjectivity? The problem of confirmation in orthodox interpretations of quantum mechanics
Any successful interpretation of quantum mechanics must explain how our empirical evidence allows us to come to know about quantum mechanics. In this...
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Six Measurement Problems of Quantum Mechanics
The notorious ‘measurement problem’ has been roving around quantum mechanics for nearly a century since its inception, and has given rise to a...
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Non-quantum Behaviors of Configuration-Space Density Formulations of Quantum Mechanics
The trajectories of the pilot-wave formulation of quantum mechanics and hence its empirical predictions may be recovered via the dynamics of a...
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The Wave-Memory Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Present quantum mechanics has been a source of puzzlement since its inception in 1927. The theory has been undoubtedly successful predicting results...
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Relational quantum mechanics, causal composition, and molecular structure
Franklin and Seifert (2021) argue that solving the measurement problem of quantum mechanics (QM) also answers a question central to the philosophy of...
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Metaphysical indeterminacy in Everettian quantum mechanics
The question of whether Everettian quantum mechanics (EQM) justifies the existence of metaphysical indeterminacy has recently come to the fore....
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The sky is blue, and other reasons quantum mechanics is not underdetermined by evidence
I criticize the widely-defended view that the quantum measurement problem is an example of underdetermination of theory by evidence: more...
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The information-theoretic view of quantum mechanics and the measurement problem(s)
Until recently Jeffrey Bub and Itamar Pitowsky, in the framework of an information-theoretic view of quantum mechanics, claimed first that to the...
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Quantum Ontology: A Modal Bundle-Theorist Relational Proposal
Quantum mechanics poses several challenges in ontological elucidation. Contextuality threatens determinism and favors realism about possibilia ....
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Quantum Mechanics Without Indeterminacy
Metaphysical indeterminacy in the context of quantum mechanics is often motivated by the eigenstate-eigenvalue link. However, the sparse view of...
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Quantum Mechanics and Molecular Structure
In this paper I examine the relationship between quantum mechanics and ideas of structure in chemistry, including the chemical bond. Without...
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Chemical reduction and quantum interpretation: A case for thomistic emergence
The debate between ontological reductionists and emergentists in chemistry has revolved around quantum mechanics. What Franklin and Seifert (BJPS...
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A Sound and Complete Tableaux Calculus for Reichenbach’s Quantum Mechanics Logic
In 1944 Hans Reichenbach developed a three-valued propositional logic (RQML) in order to account for certain causal anomalies in quantum mechanics....
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The State of Play in Hydrodynamic Quantum Analogs
We describe the manner in which the physical picture emerging from hydrodynamic quantum analogs (HQAs) may serve to resolve some of the longstanding...
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Introduction: Phenomenology of Quantum Mechanics
The collection of essays in this special issue point toward the rich and diverse themes under which the phenomenologist might analyze quantum...
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The Powers of Quantum Mechanics: A Metametaphysical Discussion of the “Logos Approach”
This paper presents and critically discusses the “logos approach to quantum mechanics” from the point of view of the current debates concerning the...
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Interpreting quantum mechanics
Detailed summary of Chapters 2–5 • The interplay between principle-theoretic and constructive approaches to physics • The new kinematics of quantum...
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How the History of Thermodynamics Informs the Hidden Variables Debate in Quantum Mechanics
The main purpose of this paper is to inform all those interested in quantum foundations about several very striking historical parallels between...
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On the status of quantum tunnelling time
How long does a quantum particle take to traverse a classically forbidden energy barrier? In other words, what is the correct expression for quantum...
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Time’s Direction and Orthodox Quantum Mechanics: Time Symmetry and Measurement
It has been argued that measurement-induced collapses in Orthodox Quantum Mechanics generates an intrinsic (or built-in) quantum arrow of time. In...