Lopez Cristian
Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Eur J Philos Sci. 2024;14(1):11. doi: 10.1007/s13194-024-00573-w. Epub 2024 Feb 21.
In this paper, I critically assess two recent proposals for an interpretation-independent understanding of non-relativistic quantum mechanics: the overlap strategy (Fraser & Vickers, 2022) and the textbook account (Egg, 2021). My argument has three steps. I first argue that they presume a Quinean-Carnapian meta-ontological framework that yields flat, structureless ontologies. Second, such ontologies are unable to solve the problems that quantum ontologists want to solve. Finally, only structured ontologies are capable of solving the problems that quantum ontologists want to solve. But they require some dose of speculation. In the end, I defend the conservative way to do quantum ontology, which is (and must be) speculative and non-neutral.
在本文中，我批判性地评估了最近提出的两种关于对非相对论量子力学进行独立于解释的理解的提议：重叠策略（弗雷泽和维克斯，2022年）和教科书解释（埃格，2021年）。我的论证有三个步骤。我首先认为，它们假定了一种奎因 - 卡尔纳普式的元本体论框架，该框架产生了扁平、无结构的本体论。其次，这样的本体论无法解决量子本体论者想要解决的问题。最后，只有结构化本体论才有能力解决量子本体论者想要解决的问题。但它们需要一定程度的推测。最后，我捍卫了进行量子本体论研究的保守方式，这种方式（而且必须是）推测性的且非中立的。
