Karakostas, Vassilios and Zafiris, Elias (2025) Contemporary perspectivism as a framework of scientific inquiry in quantum mechanics and beyond. Foundations of Physics, 55 (76). ISSN 1572-9516
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Abstract
Contemporary perspectivism is viewed as a framework of scientific inquiry concerning the origin, generation and systematization of scientific knowledge of nature by focusing on the conditions under which such knowledge may arise in perspectivist terms and investigating the essential ramifications of these conditions. To this end, we develop the conceptual, methodological and semantic framework of contemporary perspectivism according to the norms of the proposed endo-theoretic approach. Implementation of the preceding three-fold scheme in quantum mechanics implies that the global structure of a quantum algebra of events can be consistently comprehended through a multilevel structure of locally variable Boolean perspectives, interconnected in a category-theoretic environment, yielding jointly all the information encoded in the former. In this respect, the proposed approach validates the perspectivist/contextual nature of quantum mechanics at a fundamental level of discourse. Furthermore, due to its general character, it may acquire the form of a theoretical pattern of scientific inquiry in the natural sciences, especially when dealing with complex trans-perspectival phenomena, the analysis of which requires the use of information resulting from more than one perspective. Finally, in the appendix, we provide a concise comparative assessment between our perspectivist framework of quantum theory and Rovelli’s relational interpretation of quantum mechanics.
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| Additional Information: | Foundations of Physics 2025, 55: 76 | |||||||||
| Keywords: | Scientific Perspectivism, Endo-Theoretic Approach, Framework of Scientific Inquiry, Perspectival Realism, Quantum Mechanics, Category Theory | |||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism General Issues > Structure of Theories |
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| Depositing User: | Prof. Vassilios Karakostas | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 12 Oct 2025 17:34 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 12 Oct 2025 17:34 | |||||||||
| Item ID: | 26899 | |||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Foundations of Physics | |||||||||
| Publisher: | Springer Nature | |||||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-025-00888-5 | |||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism General Issues > Structure of Theories |
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| Date: | 2025 | |||||||||
| Volume: | 55 | |||||||||
| Number: | 76 | |||||||||
| ISSN: | 1572-9516 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/26899 |
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