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Reply to a Comment on “Quantum Theory and the Limits of Objectivity

Healey, Richard. 2019. Reply to a Comment on “Quantum Theory and the Limits of Objectivity.” Foundations of Physics, 49(8), 816–819. https:/...

Richard Healey Richard Healey

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Quantum Mechanics: Fixing the Shifty Split

N David Mermin. 2012. Quantum Mechanics: Fixing the Shifty Split. Physics Today, 65 (7), pp 8–10

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Complexity beyond the real; the integration of the unknown and the unknowable into science

Complexity theory (Boulton et al, 2015) provides an important and potent challenge to the continuing dominance of worldviews informed by classical science.

Jean Boulton Jean Boulton

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Is It Autonomy All the Way Down? The Search for a QBist Metaphysic

The philosopher William James once wrote, Like the old woman who described the world as resting on a rock, and then explained that rock to be supported by another rock, and finally said it was ‘rocks all the way down,’ he who believes this to be a radically moral universe must hold the moral order to rest either on an absolute and ultimate should or on a series of shoulds ‘all the way down’.

Christopher Fuchs Christopher Fuchs Florian Boge Florian Boge Amanda Gefter Amanda Gefter David Glick David Glick Gustavo Rodrigues Rocha Gustavo Rodrigues Rocha
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