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Niels Bohr as a Physicist of Principle
Mauro Dorato, Jan Faye
Our main claim is that Bohr adopted a principle-theoretic approach to quantum mechanics in order to reconcile two principles: the distinction principle, which asserts the necessity…
Bohr meets Rovelli: a dispositionalist account of the quantum limits of knowledge
Mauro Dorato
I begin by examining the question of the quantum limits of knowledge by briefly presenting the constraints of the theory that derive from its mathematical structure (in particular…
The nature of representation in Feynman diagrams
Mauro Dorato, Emanuele Rossanese
After a brief presentation of Feynman diagrams, we criticizise the idea that Feynman diagrams can be considered to be pictures or depictions of actual physical processes. We then s…
The metaphysics of laws: dispositionalism vs. primitivism
Mauro Dorato, Michael Esfeld
The paper compares dispositionalism about laws of nature with primitivism. It argues that while the distinction between these two positions can be drawn in a clear-cut manner in cl…