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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…
The Logic of Identity: Distinguishability and Indistinguishability in Classical and Quantum Physics
Dennis Dieks
The suggestion that particles of the same kind may be indistinguishable in a fundamental sense, even so that challenges to traditional notions of individuality and identity may ari…
The Gibbs Paradox Revisited
Dennis Dieks
The Gibbs paradox has frequently been interpreted as a sign that particles of the same kind are fundamentally indistinguishable; and that quantum mechanics, with its identical ferm…