The Foundations of Quantum Mechanics: Historical Analysis and Open Questions : Lecce, Italy, 13-16 October 1998World Scientific, 2000 - 418 pages This volume provides a sample of the present research on the foundations of quantum mechanics and related topics by collecting the papers of the Italian scholars who attended the conference entitled ?The Foundations of Quantum Mechanics ? Historical Analysis and Open Questions? (Lecce, 1998). The perspective of the book is interdisciplinary, and hence philosophical, historical and technical papers are gathered together so as to allow the reader to compare different viewpoints and cultural approaches. Most of the papers confront, directly or indirectly, the objectivity problem, taking into account the positions of the founders of QM or more recent developments. More specifically, the technical papers in the book pay special attention to the interpretation of the experiments on Bell's inequalities and to decoherence theory, but topics on unsharp QM, the consistent-history approach, quantum probability and alternative theories are also discussed. Furthermore, a number of historical and philosophical papers are devoted to Planck's, Weyl's and Pauli's thought, but topics such as quantum ontology, predictivity of quantum laws, etc., are treated. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Kaons and Bells Inequality | 19 |
The Real and the Possible 133 | 73 |
On the Decoherence of a Free Semiclassical Positronium | 99 |
Quantum Mechanics without Waves | 127 |
A Controversial Role for Correspondence in Theoretical Physics | 151 |
Which Kind of Mathematics for Quantum Mechanics? The Relevance | 167 |
Natural Kinds and Concepts of Physics | 185 |
Pauli Jung and A New Historical | 251 |
Objective Quantum Description of Macroscopic System | 267 |
Some Remarks on Knowledge and Probability Arising from | 281 |
Hermann Weyls Phenomenological Contribution to Quantum Physics | 295 |
A Criterion to Assign Probabilities to Quantum Histories | 319 |
The Search for Universal Constants and the Birth of Quantum Mechanics | 343 |
Information and State Correlations from Classical to Quantum | 369 |
Physical Meaning of Bell Type Inequalities | 393 |
Is Quantum Mechanics Contextual? | 207 |
An Independent Axiomatization of Quantum MV Algebras | 233 |
Time Scale and Completely Positive Dynamical Evolutions | 407 |
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