(Ebook) A Phenomenological Approach to Quantum Mechanics Cutting the Chain of Correlations 1st Edition by STEVEN FRENCH ISBN 0198897952 9780198897958

(Ebook) A Phenomenological Approach to Quantum Mechanics Cutting the Chain of Correlations 1st Edition by STEVEN FRENCH ISBN 0198897952 9780198897958

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ISBN 10: 0198897952 
ISBN 13: 9780198897958
Author: STEVEN FRENCH

Steven French suggests a radical new approach to the understanding of quantum physics, derived from Husserl's phenomenological philosophy. In 1939 two physicists, Fritz London and Edmund Bauer, published an account of measurement in quantum mechanics. Widely cited, their 'little book' featured centrally in an important debate over the role of consciousness in that process. However, it has been fundamentally misunderstood, both in that debate and beyond. Steven French argues that London, in particular, approached the measurement process from the perspective of Husserlian phenomenology, which he had studied as a student and which he retained an interest in throughout his career. This casts his work with Bauer in an entirely novel light and suggests a radical alternative understanding of quantum mechanics in which consciousness still plays a role but one that is fundamentally different than previously conceived. Most interpretations of the theory approach it on the basis of the so-called 'analytic' tradition in philosophy. However, there has recently been a surge of interest in 'continental' approaches and this book offers a significant new contribution to such developments. Intertwining history and philosophy, it presents London's background in physics and phenomenology, together with an outline of the latter as developed by Husserl, Gurwitsch, Merleau-Ponty and others, as well as a detailed analysis of the work on measurement with Bauer. The book concludes by comparing the London and Bauer understanding with that afforded by Fuch's QBism, Everett's 'Many Worlds' interpretation and Rovelli's Relational Quantum Mechanics. It is hoped that this exploratory work will open up new avenues of thought with regard to one of our most fundamental physical theories.

(Ebook) A Phenomenological Approach to Quantum Mechanics Cutting the Chain of Correlations 1st Table of contents:

1. The Measurement Problem (Featuring the Usual Suspects)
1.1 Introduction
1.2 The Usual Story of ‘The Measurement Problem’
2. The Orthodox Solution, Its History and Multiplicity
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Heisenberg’s ‘Cut’ and von Neumann’s ‘Chain’
2.3 The von Neumann–London–Bauer Theory
2.4 Psychophysical Parallelism
2.5 Von Neumann and Consciousness
2.6 Conclusion
3. The Debate about Consciousness
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Wigner
3.3 Margenau
3.4 Putnam
3.5 Shimony
3.6 The Debate
3.7 Testing Telepathy
3.8 Conclusion
4. Physical and Phenomenological Networks
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Bauer
4.3 London: Philosophical Roots
4.4 London: Physics
4.5 EPR and Schrödinger’s Cat
4.6 Entanglement
4.7 Conclusion
5. The Epoché and the Ego
5.1 Introduction
5.2 The Epoché
5.3 The Epoché and Metaphysics
5.4 Correlationism
5.5 Objectivity and the Constitution of the World
5.6 The Ego: Lost…
5.7 The Ego:…and Found
5.8 Reconciliation
5.9 The Ego: Discarded
6. London and Bauer Revisited
6.1 Introduction
6.2 The Analysis
6.3 Revisiting the Debate
6.4 Intersubjectivity, Community, and…Telepathy Again
6.5 Anonymity and Objectivity
6.6 Criticisms of the Phenomenological Interpretation
7. Completing the Crisis
7.1 Introduction: Husserl on Objectivity
7.2 Phenomenology, Realism, and Empiricism
7.3 The ‘Crisis’ of Modern Science
7.4 The Completion of the Crisis
8. QBism and the Subjective Stance
8.1 Introduction
8.2 QBism_ Centring the Agent
8.3 QBism and the World
8.4 QBism and Wigner’s Friend
8.5 QBism and Phenomenology
8.6 Quantum ‘Flesh’
8.7 Conclusion
9. Many Worlds, Many Minds, and (Many) Relations
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Everett and Wigner’s Friend
9.3 Everett on ‘Subjective Appearances’
9.4 From Many Worlds to Many Minds
9.5 Relativized Reality
9.6 Back to the Born Rule
9.7 From Relative States to Relationalism
9.8 Relational Quantum Mechanics
9.9 Wigner’s Friend and Self-Inclusivity
9.10 Conclusion: A Comparison
10. Interpretation or Reconstruction?
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Don’t Interpret, Reconstruct
10.3 Reconstruction and Perspectivalism
10.4 Blurring the Line
10.5 Conclusion: Between ‘ψ-epistemic’ and ‘ψ-ontic’
References
Name Index
Subject Index

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