1st Edition

Phenomenology and QBism New Approaches to Quantum Mechanics

Edited By Philipp Berghofer, Harald A. Wiltsche Copyright 2024
408 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

408 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

408 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This volume brings together philosophers and physicists to explore the parallels between Quantum Bayesianism, or QBism, and the phenomenological tradition. It is the first book exclusively devoted to phenomenology and quantum mechanics. By emphasizing the role of the subject’s experiences and expectations, and by explicitly rejecting the idea that the notion of physical reality could ever be... Read more

1. Introducing Phenomenology to QBism and Vice Versa: Phenomenological Approaches to Quantum Mechanics Philipp Berghofer and Harald A. Wiltsche

Part 1: From QBism to Phenomenology

2. Towards a World Game-Flavored as a Hawk's Wing Blake Stacey

3. QBism, Where Next? Chris Fuchs

4. A QBist Reads Merleau-Ponty Rüdiger Schack

5. Unobservable Entities in QBism and Phenomenology Jacques Pienaar

Part 2: From Phenomenology to QBism

6. On the Consilience between QBism and Phenomenology Hans Christian von Baeyer

7. QBism: Realism about What? Thomas Ryckman

8. QBism: An Eco-Phenomenology of Quantum Physics Michel Bitbol and Laura de La Tremblaye

Part 3: Supplementary Approaches

9. Putting Some Flesh on the Participant in Participatory Realism Steven French

10. Back to Kant! QBism, Phenomenology, and Reality-Construction from Invariants Florian Boge

11. The Role of Reconstruction in the Elucidation of Quantum Theory Philip Goyal

Biography

Philipp Berghofer is a Post-Doc researcher and lecturer at the Philosophy Department of the University of Graz, Austria, and a former visiting fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, USA (Spring Term 2023). His research focus centers around epistemology, phenomenology, and the philosophy of physics.

Harald A. Wiltsche is Full Professor in Theoretical Philosophy at Linköping University, Sweden. Prior to that, he held positions at Stanford University, the University of Toronto, and the University of Graz. His main areas of research are the general philosophy of science, the philosophy of physics, and phenomenology.

"Phenomenology and QBism joins the forces of the leading proponents of Quantum Bayesianism and phenomenology of physics to appraise the promise of phenomenology for the foundations of physics. The outcome is an exciting and inspiring collection of essays."

Mirja Hartimo, University of Helsinki, Finland