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OUPCORRECTEDPROOF – FINAL,28/1/2020,SPi Scientific Realism and the Quantum OUPCORRECTEDPROOF – FINAL,28/1/2020,SPi OUPCORRECTEDPROOF – FINAL,28/1/2020,SPi Scientific Realism and the Quantum editedby Steven French and Juha Saatsi 1 OUPCORRECTEDPROOF – FINAL,28/1/2020,SPi 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxford,ox26dp, UnitedKingdom OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. 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LinkstothirdpartywebsitesareprovidedbyOxfordingoodfaithand forinformationonly.Oxforddisclaimsanyresponsibilityforthematerials containedinanythirdpartywebsitereferencedinthiswork. OUPCORRECTEDPROOF – FINAL,28/1/2020,SPi Contents ListofIllustrations ix ListofContributors xi Acknowledgements xiii 1. Introduction 1 StevenFrenchandJuhaSaatsi PartI RethinkingScientificRealism 2. ScientificRealismwithouttheQuantum 19 CarlHoefer 2.1 Introduction 19 2.2 ScientificRealism,Revived 20 2.3 NoRealismAboutQuantumTheory(Yet) 26 2.4 ThePartsWeKnowAreTrue 30 2.5 Comparisons 32 3. Truthvs.ProgressRealismaboutSpin 35 JuhaSaatsi 3.1 Introduction 35 3.2 Spin 38 3.3 TwoConceptionsofTheoryRealism 41 3.4 Truth-ContentRealismChallenged 44 3.5 ProgressRealismaboutSpin 50 PartII UnderdeterminationandInterpretation 4. CanWeQuarantinetheQuantumBlight? 57 CraigCallender 4.1 Introduction 57 4.2 TheQuantumBlight 58 4.3 DialingUpUnderdetermination 60 4.4 UnderdeterminationwithinUnderdetermination? 62 4.5 Quarantine 64 4.6 Reaction:ThereCanOnlyBeOne? 72 5. OnthePluralityofQuantumTheories:QuantumTheoryasa Framework,anditsImplicationsfortheQuantumMeasurementProblem 78 DavidWallace 5.1 Introduction 78 5.2 QuantumTheory:FrameworksandInstances 81 5.3 QuantumTheory:Inter-TheoreticRelations 83 5.4 InterpretativeRecipesandtheEverettInterpretation 85 5.5 Non-RepresentationalApproachestoQuantumTheory 87 OUPCORRECTEDPROOF – FINAL,28/1/2020,SPi vi contents 5.6 ModificationsofQuantumTheory 92 5.7 Conclusions 97 6. NaturalismandtheInterpretationofQuantumMechanics 103 J.E.Wolff 6.1 Introduction 103 6.2 VanFraassen’sChallenge 104 6.3 TheCaseofQuantumMechanics 107 6.4 InterpretationandUnderstanding 113 6.5 Conclusion 118 PartIII PragmatismaboutQuantumTheory 7. PragmatistQuantumRealism 123 RichardHealey 7.1 Introduction 123 7.2 WhatisQuantumRealism? 124 7.3 ParticipatoryRealism 128 7.4 RepresentationandaPragmatistAlternative 129 7.5 IsthisInstrumentalism? 132 7.6 NoOntologicalModel? 134 7.7 IsthisPragmatistViewExplanatory? 135 7.8 Truth 137 7.9 TheLimitsofQuantumObjectivity 138 7.10 ScientificRealismasanEmpiricalThesis 142 7.11 HowtobeaQuantumRealist 143 8. CanPragmatismaboutQuantumTheoryHandleObjectivityabout Explanations? 147 LinaJansson 8.1 Introduction 147 8.2 IBE,ExplanatoryIndispensability,andaPutativeTruism aboutExplanation 148 8.3 PragmatismaboutQuantumTheorywithout(Pure)Pragmatism aboutExplanation 151 8.4 ExplanatoryRolesandOntologicalCommitment 155 8.5 ExplanationsonthePragmaticApproachtoQuantumTheory 161 8.6 Conclusion:Explanation,Realism,andtheCostofthe PragmaticApproach 164 9. QuantumMechanicsandits(Dis)Contents 168 PeterJ.Lewis 9.1 ThePragmatistProject 168 9.2 ThePragmatistFramework 169 9.3 Content 172 9.4 ConcernsaboutContent 175 9.5 TimeandExplanation 178 9.6 Conclusion 181 OUPCORRECTEDPROOF – FINAL,28/1/2020,SPi contents vii PartIV WavefunctionandQuantumStateRealism 10. LosingSightoftheForestforthe(cid:2):BeyondtheWavefunction Hegemony 185 AlisaBokulich 10.1 Introduction 185 10.2 QuantumPhysicsRealismDebate 187 10.3 HydrodynamicRepresentationsattheClassicalScale 190 10.4 HydrodynamicRepresentationsattheQuantumScale 194 10.5 ExploringLagrangianQuantumHydrodynamics 199 10.6 BeyondtheWavefunctionHegemony 204 11. ScientificRealismwithouttheWaveFunction 212 ValiaAllori 11.1 Introduction 212 11.2 TheoryArchitecture 213 11.3 QuantumTheoryConstructionKit 216 11.4 PrimitiveOntology 218 11.5 TheWaveFunction 219 11.6 ExplanationistRealism 221 11.7 DependentandIndependentPrimitiveOntologies 222 11.8 TheoryEvaluation 223 12. OntheStatusofQuantumStateRealism 229 WayneC.Myrvold 12.1 Introduction 229 12.2 ArgumentsforAnti-RealismaboutQuantumStates 231 12.3 ArgumentsforanOnticConstrualofQuantumStates 235 12.4 DoingwithouttheCartesianProductAssumption 245 12.5 Conclusion 249 PartV ScientificRealismandQuantumFieldTheory 13. TheNon-MiraculousSuccessofFormalAnalogiesinQuantum Theories 255 DoreenFraser 13.1 Introduction 255 13.2 TheRefinedExplanationistDefenseofRealismandPhysicalAnalogies 257 13.3 FormalAnalogiesintheDevelopmentoftheHiggsModel 260 13.4 TheRefinedExplanationistDefenseofRealismRevisited 265 13.5 TheArgumentfromtheHistoryofScienceforStructuralRealism 269 13.6 Conclusion 271 14. TowardsaRealistViewofQuantumFieldTheory 276 JamesD.Fraser 14.1 Introduction 276 14.2 RealismandQuantumFieldTheory:AFirstLook 276 14.3 TheRenormalizationGroup 281 OUPCORRECTEDPROOF – FINAL,28/1/2020,SPi viii contents 14.4 BrighterProspectsforRealism 283 14.5 Challenges 287 15. PerturbingRealism 293 LauraRuetsche 15.1 Introduction:ANewDevelopment? 293 15.2 MotivatingEffectiveRealism 294 15.3 PerturbingRealism 304 15.4 Conclusion:EffectiveEmpiricism 310 NameIndex 315 SubjectIndex 317 OUPCORRECTEDPROOF – FINAL,28/1/2020,SPi List of Illustrations 4.1. TheScientificDial 61 4.2. QuarantineZone 66 4.3. Two-PathSetup 71 8.1. Typesofdependence 157 8.2. Intra-modeldependenceinseveralsteps 159 8.3. Typesofdependenceonthepragmaticapproachtoquantumtheory 162 9.1. TheapparatusofJuffmannetal.(2009). 170 14.1. A‘majorityrule’blockingprocedureonatwo-valuedspinsystem. 281
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