Suárez, Mauricio (2006) Propensities in quantum mechanics. Discussion paper, Steuer, Max (ed.) (DP 80/06). Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, London, UK.
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Abstract
I review five explicit attempts throughout the history of quantum mechanics to invoke dispositional notions in order to solve the quantum paradoxes, namely: Margenau’s latencies, Heisenberg’s potentialities, Popper’s propensity interpretation of probability, Nick Maxwell’s propensitons, and the recent selective propensities interpretation of quantum mechanics. I raise difficulties and challenges for all of them, but conclude that the selective propensities approach nicely encompasses the virtues of its predecessors. I elaborate on some of the properties of the type of propensities that I claim to be successful for quantum mechanics, and finish by briefly sketching out ways in which similar notions can be read into some of the other well-known interpretations of quantum mechanics.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Discussion Paper) |
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| Official URL: | http://www.lse.ac.uk/CPNSS/home.aspx |
| Additional Information: | © 2006 The Author |
| Divisions: | CPNSS |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) Q Science > QC Physics |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Mar 2011 10:38 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2024 18:46 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/33297 |
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