European Journal for Philosophy of Science ( IF 1.5 ) Pub Date : 2021-01-30 , DOI: 10.1007/s13194-020-00346-1 Matthias Egg 1
Existing proposals concerning the ontology of quantum mechanics (QM) either involve speculation that goes beyond the scientific evidence or abandon realism about large parts of QM. This paper proposes a way out of this dilemma, by showing that QM as it is formulated in standard textbooks allows for a much more substantive ontological commitment than is usually acknowledged. For this purpose, I defend a non-fundamentalist approach to ontology, which is then applied to various aspects of QM. In particular, I will defend realism about spin, which has been viewed as a particularly hard case for the ontology of QM.
中文翻译:
无需推测的量子本体
现有的关于量子力学本体论 (QM) 的提议要么涉及超出科学证据的推测,要么放弃关于 QM 大部分内容的现实主义。本文提出了一种摆脱这种困境的方法,通过展示标准教科书中制定的 QM 允许比通常承认的更实质性的本体论承诺。为此,我捍卫一种非原教旨主义的本体论方法,然后将其应用于 QM 的各个方面。特别是,我将捍卫关于自旋的现实主义,这一直被视为 QM 本体的一个特别困难的案例。