Effects and propositions

DOI10.1007/S10701-009-9321-XzbMATH Open1188.81009arXiv0809.0659OpenAlexW3103075083MaRDI QIDQ972632FDOQ972632

Authors: William Demopoulos 

Publication date: 21 May 2010

Published in: Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The quantum logical and quantum information-theoretic traditions have exerted an especially powerful influence on Bub's thinking about the conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics. This paper discusses both the quantum logical and information-theoretic traditions from the point of view of their representational frameworks. I argue that it is at this level, at the level of its framework, that the quantum logical tradition has retained its centrality to Bub's thought. It is further argued that there is implicit in the quantum information-theoretic tradition a set of ideas that mark a genuinely new alternative to the framework of quantum logic. These ideas are of considerable interest for the philosophy of quantum mechanics, a claim which I defend with an extended discussion of their application to our understanding of the philosophical significance of the no hidden variable theorem of Kochen and Specker.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.0659

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zbMATH Keywords

effectsdeterminacydeterminismquantum logiccontextualityhidden variablesphysical properties

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Logical foundations of quantum mechanics; quantum logic (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P10)

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