Article ID: CBB613319171

The Ensemble Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics and Scientific Realism (2021)

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The article takes under consideration three versions of the ensemble (statistical) interpretation of quantum mechanics and discusses the interconnection of these interpretations with the philosophy of science. To emphasize the specifics of the problem of interpretation of quantum mechanics in the USSR, the Marxist ideology is taken into account. The present paper continues the author’s previous analysis of ensemble interpretations which emerged in the USA and USSR in the first half of the 20th century. The author emphasizes that the ensemble approach turned out to be a dead end for the development of the interpretation of quantum mechanics in Russia. The article also argues that in Soviet Russia, the classical Copenhagen (standard) approach to quantum mechanics was used. The Copenhagen approach was developed by Lev Landau in 1919–1931 and became the basis of the Landau-Lifshitz famous course on quantum mechanics, one of the classics of twentieth-century physics literature (the first edition was published in 1947). Although Vladimir A. Fock’s approach to the interpretation of quantum mechanics differs from the standard presentation by Lev Landau and Evgeny Lifshitz, Fock put forward a very important principle that complementarity is a “firmly established law of nature”. The fundamental writings of Lev Landau, Vladimir Fock and Igor Tamm, the authors of the mid-twentieth century, did a lot to defend the standard point of view such as the popular interpretations by Landau and Lifshitz. This approach can be traced back to Landau’s early writings and to Fock’s criticism of the ensemble approach.

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Authors & Contributors
Matteo Morganti
Hutson, James A.
Campaner, Raffaella
Greco, Pietro
Alberto Giovanni Biuso
Gabbani, Carlo
Journals
Substantia: An International Journal of the History of Chemistry
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
Science and Education
Journal for General Philosophy of Science
Foundations of Chemistry
Publishers
Carocci Editore
San Diego State University
Abo Akademi (Finland)
World Scientific
State University of New York Press
Oxford University Press
Concepts
Philosophy of science
Realism
Physics
Quantum mechanics
Philosophy
Explanation; hypotheses; theories
People
Bohr, Niels Henrik David
Einstein, Albert
Pauli, Wolfgang Ernst
Popper, Karl Raimund
Planck, Max
Heisenberg, Werner
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
20th century, early
19th century
Institutions
School of Milan
Universität Göttingen
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