An Aristotelian philosophy of nature rejects the modern prejudice in favor of the microscopic, a rejection that is crucial if we are to penetrate the mysteries of the quantum world. I defend an Aristotelian model by drawing on both quantum chemistry and recent work on the measurement problem. By building on the work of Hans Primas, using the distinction between quantum and classical properties that emerges in quantum chemistry at the thermodynamic or continuum limit, I develop a new version of the Copenhagen interpretation, a version that is realist, holistic, and hylomorphic in character, allowing for the attribution of fundamental causal powers to human observers and their instruments. I conclude with a critique of non-hylomorphic theories of primitive ontology, including Bohmian mechanics, Everettianism, and GRW mass-density.

亚里士多德的自然哲学拒绝了现代偏见，而赞成微观，这对于我们要了解量子世界的奥秘至关重要。我通过利用量子化学和有关测量问题的最新研究来捍卫亚里士多德模型。通过在汉斯·普里马斯（Hans Primas）的工作基础上，利用量子化学在热力学或连续谱极限下出现的量子性质与经典性质之间的区别，我开发了哥本哈根解释的新版本，该版本在现实世界中是真实，整体和亚纯的。性，允许将基本因果力归因于人类观察者及其工具。最后，我对原始本体论的非亚同性理论进行了批判，其中包括玻姆力学，恒论和GRW质量密度。