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Preface | ||
The Quantum Labyrinth, A Treatise on Quantum Mechanics and Comparative Metaphysics | 1 | |
1 | Realism, empiricism, pluralism | 11 |
1.1 | Realism versus empiricism | 12 |
1.2 | Metaphysical pluralism | 24 |
2 | Comparative metaphysics | 29 |
2.1 | Ambiguity and meta-ambiguity | 30 |
2.2 | Describing complex systems | 42 |
3 | The construction of physical reality | 51 |
3.1 | A model of theories | 52 |
3.2 | Contexts | 59 |
3.3 | Further elaborations on contextual semantics | 66 |
4 | Quantum mechanics | 73 |
4.1 | Logical peculiarities of QM | 74 |
4.2 | Measurement postulates | 77 |
5 | 'Recent' developments in measurement theory | 85 |
5.1 | Effect valued measures | 85 |
5.2 | Operation valued measures | 87 |
5.3 | Some cases in measurement theory | 90 |
5.4 | ABL measures | 99 |
6 | Contextual QM | 103 |
6.1 | The initial contextual formulation of QM | 106 |
6.2 | Quantum process theory | 109 |
6.3 | A particle interpretation | 121 |
6.4 | Event theory | 125 |
7 | Completeness and locality | 129 |
7.1 | Quantum 'theory'? | 130 |
7.2 | Contextual QM and completeness | 132 |
7.3 | Splitting magnitudes | 135 |
7.4 | The incompleteness of the standard formalism of QM | 142 |
7.5 | Locality | 145 |
7.6 | Speculations on time-symmetry, causality, and quantum gravity | 150 |
8 | A maze of QMs | 161 |
8.1 | General methodological remarks | 162 |
8.2 | Nonclassical alternatives | 164 |
8.3 | Variations on the initial formalism | 169 |
8.4 | The Von Neumann chain | 178 |
8.5 | Relative process states | 181 |
8.6 | Conclusions | 193 |
9 | Quantum Event Theory, A Tetrode-Fokker version of Quantum Field Theory | 197 |
9.1 | Quantum events | 198 |
9.2 | Event fields | 200 |
9.3 | Field equations | 202 |
9.4 | The correspondence between field theory and event theory | 203 |
9.5 | Probabilities reconsidered | 208 |
10 | Contextual logic | 215 |
10.1 | The general structure of contextual logic | 215 |
10.2 | Some applications | 233 |
10.3 | Relevance, truth, reality | 247 |
Bibliography | 258 | |
Index | 273 |
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