QBism and the Ithaca Desiderata
Quantum Physics
2018-12-14 v1 History and Philosophy of Physics
Abstract
In 1996, N. David Mermin proposed a set of desiderata for an understanding of quantum mechanics, the "Ithaca Interpretation". In 2012, Mermin became a public advocate of QBism, an interpretation due to Christopher Fuchs and Ruediger Schack. Here, we evaluate QBism with respect to the Ithaca Interpretation's six desiderata, in the process also evaluating those desiderata themselves. This analysis reveals a genuine distinction between QBism and the IIQM, but also a natural progression from one to the other.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1812.05549,
title = {QBism and the Ithaca Desiderata},
author = {Blake C. Stacey},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.05549},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
13 pages, no figures except those of speech