Philosophy 482
: Tuesday Presentations
Uncertainty Formulas. Redhead (18), Hanson (13).
(See also Jammer, on reference list.)
Copenhagen Interpretation a la Bohr. Bohr (3)
Copenhagen Interpretation a la Heisenberg. Heisenberg (14, to p.
126 (p.
58 in his text))
(See too "Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics" in
Stanford Encyclopedia link.)
Week
4. April 23. Hidden Variables Interpretations
Bohm (2). Fine, TSG, pp 194-198.
(See also Cushing,
on reference list. and "Bohmian Mechanics" in Stanford Encyclopedia
link.)
Einstein on HVs. See Fine, TSG, Chapter 4, esp., secs. 3, 4, and 5.
Heisenberg contra
HVs,
(14, pp 128-146 in his text)
See also "
Bohmian Mechanics
Week
5. April 30
More on Hidden
Variables, and Many Worlds
Putnam contra HVs. (16, esp., pp 163 ff; and Putnam (Again 16a)
622-633)
Many Worlds. Dewitt (6). See also Putnam (Again 16a) 629-31.
Many Minds. Albert and Loewer (0). Weinstein (20)
See also "Many-Worlds
Interpretation of
Quantum Mechanics
Putnam (17)
Feynman (10, see especially pp. 140 ff))
Fine (11) [analysis of 2-slit exp & defeating logical law
secs
2&3 /sec 4 QL model]
(See Gibbins, Particles and Paradoxes, and also "Quantum Logic
and
Probability Theory" in
Stanford Encyclopedia link.)
The EPR paper (9)
Bohr's version of EPR and his response (4)
Einstein's version of EPR (7)
See Fine on EPR (TSG Chap 3) and on Bohr's response (TSG,
Afterward,
¤3).
See too "The
Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Argument
in Quantum Theory
Week
8. May 21. Bell's Theorem
(Entanglement, Holism, Locality)
Bell (1)
Mermin (15)
Fine (12). See also
TSG Chap 4.
(See also "Bell's Theorem" in
Stanford Encyclopedia link.)
Week
9. May 28. Role of Consciousness in QM
Wigner (19). See esp. pp 188-89, the paradox of Wigner's friend.
(See also "Quantum Approaches to Consciousness" in
Stanford Encyclopedia link.)
TBA