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The History of Moral Certainty as the Pre-History of Typicality
Mario Hubert
This paper investigates the historical origin and ancestors of typicality, which is now a central concept in Boltzmannian Statistical Mechanics and Bohmian Mechanics. Although Ludw…
Is the Statistical Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics -Ontic or -Epistemic?
Mario Hubert
The ontological models framework distinguishes -ontic from -epistemic wavefunctions. It is, in general, quite straightforward to categorize the wave-function of a certain qua…
Absorbing the Arrow of Electromagnetic Radiation
Mario Hubert, Charles T. Sebens
We argue that the asymmetry between diverging and converging electromagnetic waves is just one of many asymmetries in observed phenomena that can be explained by a past hypothesis…
Understanding Physics: 'What?', 'Why?', and 'How?'
Mario Hubert
I want to combine two hitherto largely independent research projects, scientific understanding and mechanistic explanations. Understanding is not only achieved by answering why-que…
Reviving Frequentism
Mario Hubert
Philosophers now seem to agree that frequentism is an untenable strategy to explain the meaning of probabilities. Nevertheless, I want to revive frequentism, and I will do so by gr…
When Fields Are Not Degrees of Freedom
Vera Hartenstein, Mario Hubert
We show that in the Maxwell-Lorentz theory of classical electrodynamics most initial values for fields and particles lead to an ill-defined dynamics, as they exhibit singularities…
How Quantum Mechanics can consistently describe the use of itself
Dustin Lazarovici, Mario Hubert
We discuss the no-go theorem of Frauchiger and Renner based on an "extended Wigner's friend" thought experiment which is supposed to show that any single-world interpretation of qu…
The Wave-Function as a Multi-Field
Mario Hubert, Davide Romano
It is generally argued that if the wave-function in the de Broglie--Bohm theory is a physical field, it must be a field in configuration space. Nevertheless, it is possible to inte…
Quantum theory cannot consistently describe the use of itself
Daniela Frauchiger, Renato Renner
Quantum theory provides an extremely accurate description of fundamental processes in physics. It thus seems likely that the theory is applicable beyond the, mostly microscopic, do…
Quantity of Matter or Intrinsic Property: Why Mass Cannot Be Both
Mario Hubert
I analyze the meaning of mass in Newtonian mechanics. First, I explain the notion of primitive ontology, which was originally introduced in the philosophy of quantum mechanics. The…
The physics and metaphysics of primitive stuff
Michael Esfeld, Dustin Lazarovici, Vincent Lam +1
The paper sets out a primitive ontology of the natural world in terms of primitive stuff, that is, stuff that has as such no physical properties at all, but that is not a bare subs…
The ontology of Bohmian mechanics
Michael Esfeld, Dustin Lazarovici, Mario Hubert +1
The paper points out that the modern formulation of Bohm's quantum theory known as Bohmian mechanics is committed only to particles' positions and a law of motion. We explain how t…