Events and the Ontology of Quantum Mechanics.
In the first part of the paper I argue that an ontology of events is precise, flexible and general enough so as to cover the three main alternative formulations of quantum mechanics as well as theories advocating an antirealistic view of the wave function. Since these formulations advocate a primiti...
| Publicado en: | Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy Vol. 34; no. 2; pp. 369 - 379 |
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