Wave function ontology

DOI10.1023/A:1014493527177MaRDI QIDQ700779zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Bradley Monton

Publication date 8 October 2002

Published in Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05)

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• Quantum mechanics as a deterministic theory of a continuum of worlds
• Spacetime emergence in quantum gravity: functionalism and the hard problem
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• The world in the wave function. A metaphysics for quantum physics
• Relativistic Bohmian mechanics revisited: a covariant reformulation for spin-1/2 particles
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• The point of primitive ontology
• Bohmian mechanics without wave function ontology
• The problem of ontology for spontaneous collapse theories
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