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Situated observation in Bohmian mechanics |
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| Authors: | Jeffrey A Barrett |
| Institution: | Logic and Philosophy of Science, School of Social Sciences, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA, 92697-5100, USA;Department of Philosophy, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, 19081, USA;Department of Economics, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, 98416, USA;Research Assistant Professor of Philosophy, California Institute of Technology, Caltech M/C 20-7, 1200 East California Blvd, Pasadena, CA, 91125, USA;Department of Mathematics, Politecnico di Milano, P.le Leonardo da Vinci, 32 Milano, 20133, Italy;The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University, P.O. Box 39040, Tel Aviv, 6997801, Israel |
| Abstract: | Here we investigate what it might mean for a formulation of quantum mechanics to be empirically adequate. We begin by considering the measurement problem as an empirical problem and distinguishing between stronger and weaker varieties of empirical adequacy. A strongly adequate theory is one that explains the experiences of a physically situated observer. A formulation of quantum mechanics that provides such situated empirical adequacy also provides a particularly compelling response to the measurement problem. As a concrete example we consider how Bohmian mechanics explains the experience of a physically situated observer. |
| Keywords: | Quantum measurement problem Situated observation Situated empirical adequacy Bohmian mechanics Primitive ontology |
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