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First, it's useful to point out an interpretation of QM that brings it closer to classical mechanics; and this is the Bohmian Model in which particles move in a random walk; this is directly comparabl …

I expect you've come across the following: Heisenberg argument for his uncertainty principle took into account the act of measurement in 1927. Specifically, measurement causes a disturbance that it q …

Infinite precision doesn't exist physically. Since irrationals require infinite precision they aren't physical. So this is not a problem. The main problem in my opinion is what Wallace calls the metap …

Even people not familiar with interpretation of quantum mechanics can understand physicists are not interested in substance metaphysics. Your assertion appears to be contradicted by what physicists …

Zeno's paradox was formulated after Parmenides theoriesed about the ontological status of being: One path only is left for us to speak of, namely, that It is. In it are very many tokens that what …

QM is in one sense a continuation of an antique idea - that of atomism - that what there is, is made of particles; the 'quantum leap' was to recognise that energy is too; in fact everything other than …

Aristotle already points out in his Metaphysics that some philosophers took chance to be a cause. So in the very early thinking on physics chance wasn't ruled out as a cause. It was ruled out in the …

If the OP cared to read a little further down on the linked wiki article, he would have discovered: if the photon is interpreted in flight as a super-position of states, ie as having the potential …

So Kant concluded vs. The Second Antimony that matter was infinitely divisible ... He did no such thing. The SEP states he sets out an antimony: thesis, that matter is atomic in the original sense o …

I find it difficult to see how a Transcendental Deduction of QM can be feasibly constructed or thought through given that Kants notion of space & time related not to space & time as its given objectiv …

Physicists have taken this criticism on board by talking about effective theories, that is theories which are valid upto a certain energy range/scale. Physics is an ongoing project, so its not supris …

According to Richard Feynman this is exactly where the central mystery in QM lies. Probability was implicated in QM right from the start. Recall, that probability in its usual sense - as frequentist …

According to the SEP: Undaunted, von Neumann and Birkhoff suggested that the empirical success of quantum mechanics as a framework for physics casts into doubt the universal validity of the distribut …

Already, over two millennia ago Aristotle notes that some philosophers argued that Chance was a cause. Due to the overwhelming success of Newtonian Mechanics determinism was enshrined within physics …

Could Qbism treatment of probability be considered a good way to understand probability in QM for physicists? How QBism understands probability is exactly the same as how probability is understood i …