Wallace, David (2017) Against Wavefunction Realism. [Preprint]
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I argue that wavefunction realism --- the view that quantum mechanics reveals the fundamental ontology of the world to be a field on a high-dimensional spacetime, must be rejected as (a) relying on artefacts of too-simple versions of quantum mechanics, and (b) not conceptually well-motivated even were those too-simple versions exactly correct. I end with some brief comments on the role of spacetime in any satisfactory account of the metaphysics of extant quantum theories.
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| Additional Information: | Unpublished version of a chapter to appear in B. Weslake and S. Dasgupta (ed.), "Current Controversies in the Philosophy of Science", to be published by Routledge in 2019. | ||||||
| Keywords: | Quantum mechanics Wavefunction realism | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics | ||||||
| Depositing User: | Professor David Wallace | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 11 Nov 2018 15:02 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 11 Nov 2018 15:02 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 15294 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics | ||||||
| Date: | 2017 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/15294 |
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