Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Institute of Philosophy
- Code
- BMI-LOTD-614E.06
- Title
- Interpretations of quantum theory I.: Realist interpretations of quantum theory
- Usual semester
- Spring
- ECTS
- 4
- Language
- Course content
- For the latest version of the syllabus, please visit the Philosophy course catalogue: http://lps.elte.hu/courselist/ The course provides an introduction to the foundations of quantum mechanics, focusing on the prospects of a realistic physical account of quantum phenomena. Content of the course: • Eight quantum experiments and the phenomenon of quantum non-locality • The quantum recipe • The wavefunction, the quantum state and the Pusey-Barrett-Rudolph theorem • Collapse theories and the problem of local beables • Pilot wave theories • Many worlds • Relativistic quantum field theory Required reading: Tim Maudlin, Philosophy of Physics: Quantum Theory. Princeton University Press, 2019 Suggested further reading: David Albert, Quantum Mechanics and Experience, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992. Adam Becker, What Is Real? New York: Basic Books, 2018. John Stewart Bell, Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics, second edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Jean Bricmont, Making Sense of Quantum Mechanics, Cham, Switzerland: Springer International, 2016. Travis Norsen, Foundations of Quantum Mechanics: An Exploration of the Physical Meaning of Quantum Theory, Cham, Switzerland: Springer International, 2017.
- Assessment method
- Grading criteria, specific requirements: Oral exam.
- Bibliography
- Required reading: Tim Maudlin, Philosophy of Physics: Quantum Theory. Princeton University Press, 2019
- Recommended bibliography
- Suggested further reading: Tim Maudlin, Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. David Albert, Quantum Mechanics and Experience, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992. Adam Becker, What Is Real? New York: Basic Books, 2018. John Stewart Bell, Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics, second edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. E. Szabó László, A nyitott jövő problémája - véletlen, kauzalitás és determinizmus a fizikában (The problem of open future - chance, causality, and determinism in physics), Typotex Könyvkiadó, Budapest, 2002. Jean Bricmont, Making Sense of Quantum Mechanics, Cham, Switzerland: Springer International, 2016. Travis Norsen, Foundations of Quantum Mechanics: An Exploration of the Physical Meaning of Quantum Theory, Cham, Switzerland: Springer International, 2017.