Reality Without Realism: On the Ontological and Epistemological Architecture of Quantum Mechanics

On Realism and Quantum Mechanics

After the definition of a ‘tempered realism’ which rejects a priori ontological propositions, it is shown that basic statements belonging to ‘orthodox’ interpretations of Quantum Mechanics, are realist in a stronger sense because they insert ontological statements like those about the existence of the ‘superposition’ state or of the ‘entangled’ state in the postulates of the theory. A discussio...

Epistemological and Ontological Paraconsistency in Quantum Mechanics: For and Against Bohrian Philosophy

We interpret the philosophy of Niels Bohr as related to the so called “linguistic turn” and consider paraconsistency in the light of the Bohrian notion of complementarity. Following [16], Jean-Yves Béziau has discussed the seemingly contradictory perspectives found in the quantum mechanical double slit experiment in terms of paraconsistent viewpoints [7, 8]. This interpretation goes in line wit...

Quantum origin of life: methodological, epistemological and ontological issues

The aim of this essay is to analyze the role of quantum mechanics as an inherent characteristic of life. During the last ten years the problem of the origin of life has become an innovative research subject approached by many authors. The essay is divided in to three parts: the first deals with the problem of life from a philosophical and biological perspective. The second presents the conceptu...

Realism and Time Symmetry in Quantum Mechanics

We describe a gedanken experiment with an interferometer in the case of preand postselection in two different time symmetric ways: We apply the ABL formalism and the de Broglie–Bohm model. Interpreting these descriptions ontologically, we get two very different concepts of reality. Finally, we discuss some problems implied by these concepts.

Whitehead, Quantum Mechanics and Local Realism