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Karl Popper's Forgotten Role in the Quantum Debate at the Edge between Philosophy and Physics in 1950s and 1960s
Flavio Del Santo
It is not very well known that the philosopher Karl Popper has been one of the foremost critics of the orthodox interpretation of quantum physics for about six decades. This paper…
physics.hist-ph2018★ 3 cited
Striving for Realism, not for Determinism: Historical Misconceptions on Einstein and Bohm
Flavio Del Santo
In this paper I show that, while Einstein and Bohm both pursued a deterministic description of quantum mechanics, their philosophical concern was in fact primarily realism and not…
physics.hist-ph2018★ 1 cited
Demolishing prejudices to get to the foundations: a criterion of demarcation for fundamentality
Flavio Del Santo, Chiara Cardelli
In this paper, we reject commonly accepted views on fundamentality in science, either based on bottom-up construction or top-down reduction to isolate the alleged fundamental entit…