Identity questions from quantum theory

Maria L. Dalla Chiara

G. Toraldo di Francia

pp. 39-46

in: Kostas Gavroglu, John Stachel, Mark W. Wartofsky (eds), Physics, philosophy, and the scientific community, Berlin, Springer, 1995

Abstract

To what extent does quantum mechanics give rise to violations of Leibniz" theory of identity? This is a highly controversial problem. With different arguments, the question has been positively answered by Margenau, van Fraassen, Mittelstaedt, da Costa, Krause and other scholars. A negative answer, instead, has been defended by Aerts, Piron, Costantini, Garibaldi.

Cited authors

Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm