Notes on a future quantum event-ontology
History and Philosophy of Physics
2025-02-14 v1 Quantum Physics
Abstract
This essay is a two-step reflection on the question 'Which events (can be said to) occur in quantum phenomena?' The first step regiments the ontological category of "statistical phenomena" and studies the adequacy of "probabilistic event models" as descriptions thereof. Guided by the conviction that quantum phenomena are to be circumscribed within this same ontological category, the second step highlights the peculiarities of probabilistic event models of some non-relativistic quantum phenomena, and thereby of what appear to be some plausible answers to our initial question. The reflection ends in an aporetic state, as it is by now usual in encounters between ontology and the quantum.
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@article{arxiv.2502.08823,
title = {Notes on a future quantum event-ontology},
author = {Sebastian Horvat},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.08823},
year = {2025}
}
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