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Methodological Realism and Quantum Mechanics
Michael E. Cuffaro
I distinguish two senses in which one can take a given physical theory to be `complete'. On the first, a complete physical theory is one that, in principle, completely describes ph…
The Measurement Problem Is a Feature, Not a Bug--Schematising the Observer and the Concept of an Open System on an Informational, or (Neo-)Bohrian, Approach
Michael E. Cuffaro
I flesh out the sense in which the informational approach to interpreting quantum mechanics, as defended by Pitowsky and Bub and lately by a number of other authors, is (neo-)Bohri…
The Open Systems View and the Everett Interpretation
Michael E. Cuffaro, Stephan Hartmann
It is argued that those who defend the Everett, or `Many Worlds', interpretation of quantum mechanics should embrace what we call the general quantum theory of open systems (GT) as…
The Philosophy of Quantum Computing
Michael E. Cuffaro
From the philosopher's perspective, the interest in quantum computation stems primarily from the way that it combines fundamental concepts from two distinct sciences: physics (espe…
Putting probabilities first. How Hilbert space generates and constrains them
Michael Janas, Michael E. Cuffaro, Michel Janssen
We use Bub's (2016) correlation arrays and Pitowksy's (1989b) correlation polytopes to analyze an experimental setup due to Mermin (1981) for measurements on the singlet state of a…
Reconsidering No-Go Theorems from a Practical Perspective
Michael E. Cuffaro
I argue that our judgements regarding the locally causal models which are compatible with a given quantum no-go theorem implicitly depend, in part, on the context of inquiry. It fo…