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Perspectival Quantum Realism
Dennis Dieks
The theories of pre-quantum physics are standardly seen as representing physical systems and their properties. Quantum mechanics in its standard form is a more problematic case: he…
Identical Particles in Quantum Mechanics: Against the Received View
Dennis Dieks
According to the Received View identical quantum particles are a previously unknown kind of objects that do not possess individuality. In this Chapter we discuss this view, critici…
Quantum Reality, Perspectivalism and Covariance
Dennis Dieks
Paul Busch has emphasized on various occasions the importance for physics of going beyond a merely instrumentalist view of quantum mechanics. Even if we cannot be sure that any par…
Identical quantum particles as distinguishable objects
Dennis Dieks, Andrea Lubberdink
According to classical physics particles are basic building blocks of the world. Classical particles are distinguishable objects, individuated by physical characteristics. By contr…
Von Neumann's Impossibility Proof: Mathematics in the Service of Rhetorics
Dennis Dieks
According to what has become a standard history of quantum mechanics, in 1932 von Neumann persuaded the physics community that hidden variables are impossible as a matter of princi…
Time Coordinates and Clocks: Einstein's Struggle
Dennis Dieks
In his Autobiographical Notes, Einstein mentioned that on his road to the final theory of general relativity it was a major difficulty to accustom himself to the idea that coordina…