Quantum propensities |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK;2. Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Tilburg University, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands;1. Department of Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel;2. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, St Andrews KY16 9SS, UK;1. Center for Einstein Studies, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA;2. Physics Department, Wellesley College, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481, USA;1. Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands;2. Vossius Center for the History of Humanities and Sciences, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands;3. Trinity College, Cambridge, United Kingdom;4. Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom;5. Black Hole Initiative, Harvard University, United States |
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| Abstract: | This paper reviews four attempts throughout the history of quantum mechanics to explicitly employ dispositional notions in order to solve the quantum paradoxes, namely: Margenau's latencies, Heisenberg's potentialities, Maxwell's propensitons, and the recent selective propensities interpretation of quantum mechanics. Difficulties and challenges are raised for all of them, and it is concluded that the selective propensities approach nicely encompasses the virtues of its predecessors. Finally, some strategies are discussed for reading similar dispositional notions into two other well-known interpretations of quantum mechanics, namely the GRW interpretation and Bohmian mechanics. |
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