Rules and Meaning in Quantum Mechanics

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Abstract

This book concerns the metasemantics of quantum mechanics (QM). Roughly, it pursues an investigation at an intersection of the philosophy of physics and the philosophy of semantics, and it offers a critical analysis of rival explanations of the semantic facts of standard QM. Two problems for such explanations are discussed: categoricity and permanence of rules. New results include 1) a reconstruction of Einstein's incompleteness argument, which concludes that a local, separable, and categorical QM cannot exist, 2) a reinterpretation of Bohr's principle of correspondence, grounded in the principle of permanence, 3) a meaning-variance argument for quantum logic, which follows a line of critical reflections initiated by Weyl, and 4) an argument for semantic indeterminacy leveled against inferentialism about QM, inspired by Carnap's work in the philosophy of classical logic.
OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seitenumfang150
PublikationsstatusIn Vorbereitung - 2023

ÖFOS 2012

  • 603124 Wissenschaftstheorie
  • 603123 Wissenschaftsgeschichte
  • 603104 Geschichte der Philosophie
  • 603109 Logik

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