3 papers
quant-ph2026
Quantum Measurement without Ontology
Richard Healey
Measurement is an important scientific activity. In most of science, including classical physics, is may be understood as a way of finding out about the physical world and represen…
quant-ph2026
A Pragmatist Understanding of Quantum Mechanics
Richard Healey
Applications of quantum mechanics have led to many successful predictions and explanations of puzzling phenomena, and we now apply quantum mechanics to gain, process, and communica…
quant-ph2026
Perspectives in and on Quantum Theory
Richard Healey
I take a pragmatist perspective on quantum theory. This is not a view of the world described by quantum theory. In this view quantum theory itself does not describe the physical wo…