Quantum Mechanics Between Ontology and Epistemology

• Main Author: Boge, Florian J. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: European Studies in Philosophy of Science, 10
• Subjects: Philosophy and science.; Physics.; Epistemology.; Philosophy of Science.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.

This book explores the prospects of rivaling ontological and epistemic interpretations of quantum mechanics (QM). It concludes with a suggestion for how to interpret QM from an epistemological point of view and with a Kantian touch. It thus refines, extends, and combines existing approaches in a sim...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter1: Introduction
• Chapter2: Some Quantum Mechanics, its Problems, and How Not to Think About Them Philosophical Interlude I: 'Probability' and 'Realism'
• Chapter3: ust a Matter of Knowledge? Philosophical Interlude II: Locality, Causality, Reality (Again)
• Chapter:4 Ontology, or, Making Sense of Quantum Mechanics
• Chapter:5 Reconsidering Knowledge, or, Coming to Terms with Quantum Mechanics.