Barnum, Howard (1990) Dieks' Realistic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: A Comment. UNSPECIFIED. (Unpublished)
Abstract
D. Dieks has proposed a semantical rule which he claims yields a realistic interpretation of the formalism of quantum mechanics without the projection postulate. I argue that his proposal is unacceptable because it violates a natural requirement of psychophysical parallelism. His "semantical rule" is not an acceptable interpretive rule because it does not identify structures in the theory with structures in our experience, but postulates a merely probabilistic relationship between the two. Dieks' interpretation is contrasted with Everett's relative state interpretation, which attempts the same task but respects psychophysical parallelism.
| Item Type: | Other |
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| Additional Information: | Unpublished 1990 preprint, has seen some limited circulation since then. |
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| Keywords: | quantum mechanics modal interpretation Dieks probabilities psychophysical parallelism |
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| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics |
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| Depositing User: | Howard Barnum |
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| Date Deposited: | 09 Mar 2006 |
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| Last Modified: | 07 Oct 2010 11:13 |
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| Item ID: | 2649 |
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| Public Domain: | No |
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| Commentary on: | D. Dieks, "Quantum Mechanics Without the Projection Postulate and its Realistic Interpretation", Foundations of Physics vol. 19, pp. 1397-1423 (1989) |
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| URI: | http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/2649 |
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