Quantum Pointillism with Relational Identity
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985955%3A_____%2F21%3A00549610" target="_blank" >RIV/67985955:_____/21:00549610 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03262-w" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03262-w</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03262-w" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11229-021-03262-w</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Quantum Pointillism with Relational Identity
Original language description
The feasibility of establishing a proper notion of a distinguishable object in the context of the de Broglie–Bohm approach to quantum mechanics seems, at first sight, uncontroversial by virtue of the fact that this theory can supposedly be interpreted in terms of a system of objective particles distinguished by individuating properties. However, after conducting a critical revision and evaluation of this trivial interpretation, and having assessed different alternatives that have been proposed in recent literature, I argue that within this theory an appropriate notion of a distinguishable object can only be articulated by means of the following theoretical and metaphysical strategies: firstly, by appealing to a pre-existing, symmetrized Bohmian framework that is empirically indistinguishable but physically distinguishable from the standard Bohmian formulation, and secondly, by suggesting a different interpretation of this symmetrized formulation based upon a relational notion of the distinguishable object that can only be appropriately conceived from a structuralist point of view.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Synthese
ISSN
0039-7857
e-ISSN
1573-0964
Volume of the periodical
199
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3/4
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
28
Pages from-to
10639-10666
UT code for WoS article
000665777300003
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85121156209