Bohmian dispositions.
This paper argues for a broadly dispositionalist approach to the ontology of Bohmian mechanics (BM). It first distinguishes the 'minimal' and the 'causal' versions of Bohm's theory, and then briefly reviews some of the claims advanced on behalf of the 'causal' version by its proponents. A number of...
| Published in: | Synthese Vol. 192; no. 10; pp. 3203 - 3229 |
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Oct2015
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