The Oxford handbook of the history of quantum interpretations / edited by Olival Freire, Jr.

Contributor(s): Oxford scholarship - EBA | Freire, Olival [editor.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford handbooks onlinePublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 1296 pages) : illustrations (black and white)Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780191880087 (ebook) :Other title: Handbook of the history of quantum interpretations | History of quantum interpretationsSubject(s): Quantum theory -- HistoryAdditional physical formats: Print version :: No titleDDC classification: 530.1209 LOC classification: QC173.98Online resources: e-book Full-text access
Contents:
Introduction / Olival Freire Jr., Guido Bacciagaluppi, Olivier Darrigol, Thiago Hartz, Christian Joas, Alexei Kojevnikov, Osvaldo Pessoa -- A perennially grinning Cheshire cat? Over a century of experiments on light quanta and their perplexing interpretations / Klaus Hentschel -- The evolving understanding of quantum statistics / Daniela Monaldi -- The measurement problem / Osvaldo Pessoa -- Einstein's Criticisms of Quantum Mechanics / Michel Paty -- Tackling Loopholes in Experimental Tests of Bell's Inequality / David I. Kaiser -- The measuring process in quantum field theory / Thiago Hartz -- The Interpretation Debate and Quantum Gravity / Alexander Blum, Bernadette Lessel -- Quantum information and the quest for reconstruction of Quantum Theory / Alexei Grinbaum -- Natural reconstructions of quantum mechanics / Olivier Darrigol -- The axiomatization of quantum theory through functional analysis: Hilbert, von Neumann, and beyond / Klaas Landsman -- Quantum mechanics is routinely used in laboratories with great success, but no consensus on its interpretation has emerged / Franck Laloë -- Tony Leggett's challenge to quantum mechanics and its path to decoherence / Fábio Freitas -- The Copenhagen Interpretation / Don Howard -- Copenhagen and Niels Bohr / Anja Skaar Jacobsen -- Grete Hermann's Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics / Elise Crull -- Instrumentation and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics / Climério Paulo da Silva Neto -- Early Solvay Councils: Rhetorical lenses for quantum convergence and divergence / José G. Perillán -- The Foundations of Quantum Mechanics in Post-War Italy's Cultural Context / Flavio Del Santo -- Foundation of Quantum Physics in the Soviet Union / Jean-Philippe Martinez -- Early Japanese Reactions to the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, 1927-1943 / Kenji Ito -- Form and Meaning: Textbooks, Pedagogy, and the Canonical Genres of Quantum Mechanics / Josep Simon -- Philosophical Issues raised by Quantum Theory and its Interpretations / Wayne C. Myrvold -- Chien-Shiung Wu's Contributions to Experimental Philosophy / Indianara Silva -- On how Epistemological Letters changed the foundations of quantum mechanics / Sebastián Murgueitio Ramírez -- Quantum interpretations and 20th century philosophy of science / Thomas Ryckman -- Bohr and the epistemological lesson of quantum mechanics / Stefano Osnaghi -- Making sense of the century-old scientific controversy over the quanta / Olival Freire Jr. -- Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in the Post-war Era / Kristian Camilleri -- The Reception of the Forman Thesis in Modernity and Postmodernity / Paul Forman -- Quantum Historiography and Cultural History: Revisiting the Forman Thesis / Alexei Kojevnikov -- The co-creation of classical and modern physics and the foundations of quantum mechanics / Richard Staley -- Interpretation in electrodynamics, atomic theory, and quantum mechanics / Giora Hon, Bernard R. Goldstein -- Quantization conditions, 1900-1927 / Anthony Duncan, Michel Janssen -- Hidden variables / Jeffrey Bub -- Pure Wave Mechanics, Relative States, and Many Worlds / Jeffrey A. Barrett -- Is QBism a possible solution to the conceptual problems of quantum mechanics? / Hervé Zwirn -- Agential Realism -- A Relation Ontology Interpretation of Quantum Physics / Karen Barad -- The Relational Interpretation / Carlo Rovelli -- The Philosophy of Wholeness and the General and New Concept of OrdeR: Bohm's and Penrose's Points of View / Jean-Jacques Szczeciniarz, Joseph Kouneiher -- Spontaneous Localization Theories / Valia Allori -- The Non-Individuals Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics / Décio Krause, Jonas R. B. Arenhart, Otávio Bueno -- Modal interpretations of quantum mechanics / Dennis Dieks -- A Brief Historical Perspective on the Consistent Histories Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics / Gustavo Rodrigues Rocha, Dean Rickles, Florian J. Boge -- Of weighting and Counting: Statistics and Ontology in the Old Quantum Theory / Massimiliano Badino -- Einstein, Bohm and Bell: A Comedy of Errors / Jean Bricmont -- The Statistical (ensemble) interpretation of Quantum Mechanics / Alexander Pechenkin -- Stochastic interpretations of Quantum Mechanics / Emilio Santos -- Dead as a doornail? zero-point energy and Low-temperature physics in early quantum theory / Helge Kragh -- The Early Debates about the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics / Martin Jähnert, Christoph Lehner -- Foundations and Applications: The Creative Tension in the Early Development of Quantum Mechanics / Christian Joas -- The Statistical Interpretation: Born, Heisenberg and von Neumann, 1926-27 / Guido Bacciagaluppi.
Summary: This Oxford handbook provides a rigorous, interdisciplinary review of the history of interpretations of quantum physics, presenting the key controversies within the field, as well as outlining its successes and its extraordinary potential across various scientific fields.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Olival Freire Jr., Guido Bacciagaluppi, Olivier Darrigol, Thiago Hartz, Christian Joas, Alexei Kojevnikov, Osvaldo Pessoa -- A perennially grinning Cheshire cat? Over a century of experiments on light quanta and their perplexing interpretations / Klaus Hentschel -- The evolving understanding of quantum statistics / Daniela Monaldi -- The measurement problem / Osvaldo Pessoa -- Einstein's Criticisms of Quantum Mechanics / Michel Paty -- Tackling Loopholes in Experimental Tests of Bell's Inequality / David I. Kaiser -- The measuring process in quantum field theory / Thiago Hartz -- The Interpretation Debate and Quantum Gravity / Alexander Blum, Bernadette Lessel -- Quantum information and the quest for reconstruction of Quantum Theory / Alexei Grinbaum -- Natural reconstructions of quantum mechanics / Olivier Darrigol -- The axiomatization of quantum theory through functional analysis: Hilbert, von Neumann, and beyond / Klaas Landsman -- Quantum mechanics is routinely used in laboratories with great success, but no consensus on its interpretation has emerged / Franck Laloë -- Tony Leggett's challenge to quantum mechanics and its path to decoherence / Fábio Freitas -- The Copenhagen Interpretation / Don Howard -- Copenhagen and Niels Bohr / Anja Skaar Jacobsen -- Grete Hermann's Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics / Elise Crull -- Instrumentation and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics / Climério Paulo da Silva Neto -- Early Solvay Councils: Rhetorical lenses for quantum convergence and divergence / José G. Perillán -- The Foundations of Quantum Mechanics in Post-War Italy's Cultural Context / Flavio Del Santo -- Foundation of Quantum Physics in the Soviet Union / Jean-Philippe Martinez -- Early Japanese Reactions to the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, 1927-1943 / Kenji Ito -- Form and Meaning: Textbooks, Pedagogy, and the Canonical Genres of Quantum Mechanics / Josep Simon -- Philosophical Issues raised by Quantum Theory and its Interpretations / Wayne C. Myrvold -- Chien-Shiung Wu's Contributions to Experimental Philosophy / Indianara Silva -- On how Epistemological Letters changed the foundations of quantum mechanics / Sebastián Murgueitio Ramírez -- Quantum interpretations and 20th century philosophy of science / Thomas Ryckman -- Bohr and the epistemological lesson of quantum mechanics / Stefano Osnaghi -- Making sense of the century-old scientific controversy over the quanta / Olival Freire Jr. -- Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in the Post-war Era / Kristian Camilleri -- The Reception of the Forman Thesis in Modernity and Postmodernity / Paul Forman -- Quantum Historiography and Cultural History: Revisiting the Forman Thesis / Alexei Kojevnikov -- The co-creation of classical and modern physics and the foundations of quantum mechanics / Richard Staley -- Interpretation in electrodynamics, atomic theory, and quantum mechanics / Giora Hon, Bernard R. Goldstein -- Quantization conditions, 1900-1927 / Anthony Duncan, Michel Janssen -- Hidden variables / Jeffrey Bub -- Pure Wave Mechanics, Relative States, and Many Worlds / Jeffrey A. Barrett -- Is QBism a possible solution to the conceptual problems of quantum mechanics? / Hervé Zwirn -- Agential Realism -- A Relation Ontology Interpretation of Quantum Physics / Karen Barad -- The Relational Interpretation / Carlo Rovelli -- The Philosophy of Wholeness and the General and New Concept of OrdeR: Bohm's and Penrose's Points of View / Jean-Jacques Szczeciniarz, Joseph Kouneiher -- Spontaneous Localization Theories / Valia Allori -- The Non-Individuals Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics / Décio Krause, Jonas R. B. Arenhart, Otávio Bueno -- Modal interpretations of quantum mechanics / Dennis Dieks -- A Brief Historical Perspective on the Consistent Histories Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics / Gustavo Rodrigues Rocha, Dean Rickles, Florian J. Boge -- Of weighting and Counting: Statistics and Ontology in the Old Quantum Theory / Massimiliano Badino -- Einstein, Bohm and Bell: A Comedy of Errors / Jean Bricmont -- The Statistical (ensemble) interpretation of Quantum Mechanics / Alexander Pechenkin -- Stochastic interpretations of Quantum Mechanics / Emilio Santos -- Dead as a doornail? zero-point energy and Low-temperature physics in early quantum theory / Helge Kragh -- The Early Debates about the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics / Martin Jähnert, Christoph Lehner -- Foundations and Applications: The Creative Tension in the Early Development of Quantum Mechanics / Christian Joas -- The Statistical Interpretation: Born, Heisenberg and von Neumann, 1926-27 / Guido Bacciagaluppi.

This Oxford handbook provides a rigorous, interdisciplinary review of the history of interpretations of quantum physics, presenting the key controversies within the field, as well as outlining its successes and its extraordinary potential across various scientific fields.

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