The measurement problem and scientific realism
History and Philosophy of Physics
2023-10-05 v2
Abstract
Many attempts have been made to characterise and solve the infamous measurement problem of quantum mechanics by advocating, implicitly or explicitly, different realist perspectives. As a result, we are still uncertain where this problem and its corresponding solution are to be located in the realism-antirealism debate. On the basis of a well-known characterisation of scientific realism, this paper intends to fill this gap by arguing that the quantum description of the processes involved in typical measurements is problematic from a minimal realist point of view, known as semantic realism.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2306.11627,
title = {The measurement problem and scientific realism},
author = {Jorge Alberto Manero Orozco and Juan Alberto Guzman Garcia},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.11627},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
22 pages, to be published in a peer-reviewed journal