Arenhart, Jonas R. B. and Arroyo, Raoni (2023) The roads to non-individuals (and how not to read their maps). Springer, Cham.
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Ever since its beginnings, standard quantum mechanics has been associated with a metaphysical view according to which the theory deals with non-individual objects, i.e., objects deprived of individuality in some sense of the term. We shall examine the grounds of the claim according to which quantum mechanics is so closely connected with a metaphysics of non-individuals. In particular, we discuss the attempts to learn the required `metaphysical lessons' required by quantum mechanics coming from four distinct roads: from the formalism of the theory, treating separately the case of the physics and the underlying logic; from the ontology of the theory, understood as the furniture of the world according to the theory; and, at last, we analyze whether a metaphysics of non-individuals is indispensable from a purely metaphysical point of view. We argue that neither non-individuality nor individuality is not to be found imposed on us in any of these levels so that it should be seen as a metaphysical addition to the theory, rather than as a lesson from it.
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| Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics General Issues > Philosophers of Science Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics |
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| Depositing User: | Dr. Raoni Arroyo | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 22 May 2025 12:36 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 22 May 2025 12:36 | |||||||||
| Item ID: | 25399 | |||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | J. R. B. Arenhart, R. Arroyo (eds.), Non-Reflexive Logics, Non-Individuals, and the Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics: Essays in Honour of the Philosophy of Décio Krause | |||||||||
| Publisher: | Springer | |||||||||
| Official URL: | https://link.springer.com/book/9783031318399 | |||||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | 10.1007/978-3-031-31840-5_5 | |||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics General Issues > Philosophers of Science Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics |
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| Date: | 20 April 2023 | |||||||||
| Volume: | 476 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/25399 |
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