The search for a quantum reality

Silvio Bergia

Vincenzo Fano

pp. 43-58

in: Claudio Garola, Arcangelo Rossi (eds), The foundations of quantum mechanics, Berlin, Springer, 1995

Abstract

We argue that pursuing the aim of building satisfactory "views of quantum reality", or "quantum ontologies", is epistemologically legitimate and not subject to no-go theorems. The question as to what extent existing interpretations may be considered satisfactory from this point of view is dealt with on the basis of criteria elaborated within the post-Kantian philosophical tradition. The aim may also prove worth the effort from a purely scientific point of view, although it may imply such radical changes of the ordinary ways of thinking as to require very long times.

Cited authors

Kant Immanuel