Quantum Mechanics as a Principle Theory

Abstract

I show how quantum mechanics, like the theory of relativity, can be understood as a 'principle theory' in Einstein's sense, and I use this notion to explore the approach to the problem of interpretation developed in my book Interpreting the Quantum World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).

26 pages, no figures, LaTeX. Forthcoming March 2000 in Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics