Wallace, David (2007) The Quantum Measurement Problem: State of Play. [Preprint]

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Abstract

This is a preliminary version of an article to appear in the forthcoming Ashgate Companion to the New Philosophy of Physics.In it, I aim to review, in a way accessible to foundationally interested physicists as well as physics-informed philosophers, just where we have got to in the quest for a solution to the measurement problem. I don't advocate any particular approach to the measurement problem (not here, at any rate!) but I do focus on the importance of decoherence theory to modern attempts to solve the measurement problem, and I am fairly sharply critical of some aspects of the "traditional" formulation of the problem.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Wallace, David
Keywords:	Quantum Mechanics Measurement Problem
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics
Depositing User:	Professor David Wallace
Date Deposited:	07 Jul 2007
Last Modified:	07 Oct 2010 15:15
Item ID:	3420
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics
Date:	July 2007
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/3420

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