Scientific Realism and the Quantum

Quantum theory explains a hugely diverse array of phenomena in the history of science.

But how can the world be the way quantum theory says it is?

Fifteen expert scholars consider what the world is like according to quantum physics in this volume and offer illuminating new perspectives on fundamental debates that span physics and philosophy.

1 Steven French and Juha Saatsi: Introduction; Part I: Rethinking Scientific Realism; 2 Carl Hoefer: Scientific Realism Without the Quantum; 3 Juha Saatsi: Truth vs.

Progress Realism about Spin; Part II: Underdetermination and Interpretation; 4 Craig Callender: Can We Quarantine the Quantum Blight?

; 5 David Wallace: Quantum Theory as a Framework and its Implications on the Measurement Problem; 6 J.

E.

Wolff: Naturalism and the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics; Part III: Pragmatism about Quantum Theory; 7 Richard Healey: Pragmatist Quantum Realism; 8 Lina Jansson: Can Pragmatism About Quantum Theory Handle Objectivity About Explanations?

; 9 Peter J.

Lewis: Quantum Mechanics and its (Dis)Contents; Part IV: Wavefunction and Quantum State Realism; 10 Alisa Bokulich: Losing Sight of the Forest for the Psi: Beyond the Wavefunction Hegemony; 11 Valia Allori: Scientific Realism without the Wave Function; 12 Wayne C.

Myrvold: On the Status of Quantum State Realism; Part V: Scientific Realism and Quantum Field Theory; 13 Doreen Fraser: The Non-Miraculous Success of Formal Analogies in Quantum Theories; 14 James D.

Fraser: Towards a Realist View of Quantum Field Theory; 15 Laura Ruetsche: Perturbing Realism