PHILOSOPHY 482  TOPICS

    Experimental Configurations

      A.  The two-slit experiment (wave particle duality) 
        Feynman (10), Bohr (5:Discussions with Einstein)

     B.  The EPR experiment (locality & distant correlations)
        EPR (9) , Bohr (4), and Bell (1)

      C.  Measurements (the "collapse" of the wave function)
         DeWitt (6) and Fine (TSG  Chapter 5 for "Schršdinger's cat"), Wigner (19

    Interpretations of the Quantum Theory

     A. The Copenhagen Interpretation and complementarity.
        Bohr (3), Bohr (5), Fine (TSG  Chapter 2), Heisenberg(14,Chapter III: 44-58 ) and Putnam (16) [See also Jammer, Chap.4, on reference list, and Whitaker]

     B. Hidden variables.
        Bohm (2), EPR (9), Fine (TSG  Chapter 4) Heisenberg(14,Chapter VIII: 128-46) (See also Cushing on reference list)

     C.  Many worlds/Many Minds
          DeWitt (6) [See also Albert, on reference list]/ Albert & Loewer (0), Weinstein (20)

   Conceptual Problems

     A.  The uncertainty formulas
        Hanson (13), Bohr (3 and 5) and Redhead (18) [See also Jammer, Chap.3, on reference list.]

     B.  Quantum logic.
        Putnam (17), Feynman (10) and Fine (11)

    C.  Bell's Theorem: Locality, entanglement and holism
        EPR(9), Bohr's Response (4), Einstein (7 & 8), Fine (TSG  Chapter 4 & Afterward ¤3) Bell (1), Mermin (15), Fine (12).
        (See also Redhead, on reference list, and essays in Bell.)

    D. Measurement and the role of the observer
        Putnam (16), Wigner (7). [See also Albert and Greenstein & Zajonc on reference list.]

     E.  Realism
        Einstein (8), Fine (TSG  Chapters 6, 7 and 9 and Afterward ¤ 4), Putnam (16)

     F. Causality and Determinism
         Bohr (3), Bohm (2), Fine (TSG  Chapter 6, esp. Sec 4).

             Each of these topics (and others) is also treated by entries in the Stanford encyclopedia list.