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STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Volume 88, Issue -, Pages 345-357Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2021.06.009
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Quantum measurement problem; Situated observation; Situated empirical adequacy; Bohmian mechanics; Primitive ontology
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This paper investigates the empirical adequacy of formulations of quantum mechanics, treating the measurement problem as an empirical issue and differentiating between strong and weak empirical adequacy. A strongly adequate theory explains the experiences of a physically situated observer and provides a compelling response to the measurement problem. Using Bohmian mechanics as an example, the explanation of the experience of a physically situated observer is considered.
Here we investigate what it might mean for a formulation of quantum mechanics to be empirically adequate. We begin by considering the measurement problem as an empirical problem and distinguishing between stronger and weaker varieties of empirical adequacy. A strongly adequate theory is one that explains the experiences of a physically situated observer. A formulation of quantum mechanics that provides such situated empirical adequacy also provides a particularly compelling response to the measurement problem. As a concrete example we consider how Bohmian mechanics explains the experience of a physically situated observer.
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