Workshop by Prof. Michel Bitbol
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Professor Michel Bitbol is a philosopher of science, director of research at CNRS, previously in the Centre de Recherche en Epistémologie Appliquée of École polytechnique, and member of Husserl Archives, Ecole Normale Superieure;
author of Quantum Mechanics: a Philosophical Introduction (1997), Schrödinger's Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics, (1996), La pratique des possibles, une Lecture Pragmatiste et Modale de la Mécanique Quantique, (2015) and Maintenant la Finitude (2019),
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" Recent Developments in the Philosophy of Quantum Physics : QBism and
the Dissolution of Quantum Paradoxes "
According to recent approaches, the quantum revolution is above all a revolution in our conception of knowledge. Information theorists, pragmatist philosophers of physics, and supporters of subjectivist probabilities, agree about the main stumbling block of the interpretation of quantum mechanics: trying to imagine the world this theory represents, instead of questioning the very assumption that it be understood as representing the world. The so-called paradoxes arise from this representationalist prejudice, and (as will be shown in this talk) they are automatically dissolved as soon as quantum mechanics is understood as a coherent system of anticipation of events. Not any events, however: events that are triggered by interventions of the very agents who try to anticipate them.
This being granted, one may wonder which alternative non-representationalist ontology (if any) can make sense of quantum mechanics. Two such alternative ontologies will be compared: Chris Fuchs’ participatory realism, and Merleau-Ponty’s endo-ontology.
