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SUMMARY:The paradoxes of quantum theory: solving vs. dissolving - Simon Fr
 iederich (Universität Wuppertal)
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CONTACT:Vashka dos Remedios
DESCRIPTION:The paradoxes of measurement and non-locality are widely regar
 ded as the most important difficulties in the foundations of quantum theor
 y. In this talk\, I first give an introduction to these paradoxes by expla
 ining how they arise in a standard reading of the quantum theoretical form
 alism. I then classify the responses to them which interpreters have devel
 oped as solutions on the one hand - rejecting one of the assumptions requi
 red to derive the paradoxes as wrong - and dissolutions on the other - rej
 ecting one of these assumptions as being based on mistaken conceptual pres
 uppositions. An example of an account which aims at a dissolution in that 
 sense is outlined and discussed.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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