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Quantum Mechanics and Experience
- U. Mohrhoff
- Philosophy
- 22 October 2014
After a summary of Bohr's views and their relation to Kant's theory of science, two fruitless lines of attack on the measurement problem are discussed: the way of the psi-ontologist and the way of…
Making Sense of a World of Clicks
- U. Mohrhoff
- Philosophy
- 26 February 2002
In a recent article, O. Ulfbeck and A. Bohr [Found. Phys.31, 757 (2001)] have stressed the genuine fortuitousness of detector clicks, which has also been pointed out, in different terms, by the…
The World According to Quantum Mechanics (Or the 18 Errors of Henry P. Stapp)
- U. Mohrhoff
- Physics
- 21 May 2001
Several errors in Stapp's interpretation of quantum mechanics and its application to mental causation (Henry P. Stapp, “Quantum theory and the role of mind in nature,” Foundations of Physics31,…
Objectivity, retrocausation, and the experiment of Englert, Scully, and Walther
- U. Mohrhoff
- Physics
- 12 March 1999
In a recent contribution to this journal [Am. J. Phys. 64, 1468–1475 (1996)] I wrongly asserted that retrocausation in the Englert, Scully, and Walther (ESW) experiment (a double-slit interference…
PROBABILITIES FROM ENVARIANCE
- U. Mohrhoff
- Philosophy
- 29 January 2004
Zurek claims to have derived Born's rule noncircularly in the context of an ontological no-collapse interpretation of quantum states, without any "deus ex machina imposition of the symptoms of…
The Pondicherry interpretation of quantum mechanics: An overview
- U. Mohrhoff
- Philosophy
- 23 December 2004
An overview of the Pondicherry interpretation of quantum mechanics is presented. This interpretation proceeds from the recognition that the fundamental theoretical framework of physics is a…
Is the end in sight for theoretical pseudophysics
- U. Mohrhoff
- Philosophy
- 17 May 2003
The question of what ontological message (if any) is encoded in the formalism of contemporary physics is, to say the least, controversial. The reasons for this state of affairs are psychological and…
The Quantum World , the Mind , and the Cookie Cutter Paradigm
- U. Mohrhoff
- Physics
- 2007
The problem of making sense of quantum mechanics is as much a psychological problem as it is a physical one. There is a conflict between (i) the spatiotemporal structure of the quantum world and (ii)…
REFLECTIONS ON THE SPATIOTEMPORAL ASPECTS OF THE QUANTUM WORLD
- U. Mohrhoff
- Physics
- 11 May 2002
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Do Quantum States Evolve? Apropos of Marchildon's Remarks
- U. Mohrhoff
- Physics
- 17 July 2003
Marchildon's (favorable) assessment (Foundations of Physics, foregoing paper) of the Pondicherry interpretation of quantum mechanics raises several issues, which are addressed. Proceeding from the…
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