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Modal Interpretation of Repeated Measurement: A Rejoinder to Leeds and Healey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

Bas C. van Fraassen
Bas C. van Fraassen*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Princeton University
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Abstract

A recent article (Leeds and Healey 1996) argues that the modal interpretation (Copenhagen variant) of quantum mechanics does not do justice to immediately repeated non-disturbing measurements. This objection has been raised before, but the article presents it in a new, detailed, precise form. I show that the objection is mistaken.

Type
Research Article
Information
Philosophy of Science , Volume 64 , Issue 4 , December 1997 , pp. 669 - 676
Copyright
Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1997

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Footnotes

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The author wishes to thank Martin Jones, Tim Maudlin, Brad Monton, and Paul Teller for helpful comments and correspondence.

References

Leeds, S. and Healey, R. (1996), “A Note on van Fraassen's Modal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics”, Philosophy of Science 63: 91–104.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
van Fraassen, B.C. (1991), Quantum Mechanics: An Empiricist View. Oxford: Clarendon Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar