Autorentext

Philipp Berghofer is a Post-Doc researcher and lecturer at the Philosophy Department of the University of Graz, Austria, and a former visiting fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, USA (Spring Term 2023). His research focus centers around epistemology, phenomenology, and the philosophy of physics.

Harald A. Wiltsche is Full Professor in Theoretical Philosophy at Linköping University, Sweden. Prior to that, he held positions at Stanford University, the University of Toronto, and the University of Graz. His main areas of research are the general philosophy of science, the philosophy of physics, and phenomenology.

Klappentext

This volume brings together philosophers and physicists to explore the parallels between Quantum Bayesianism, or QBism, and the phenomenological tradition. It is the first book exclusively devoted to phenomenology and quantum mechanics.

Inhalt

1. Introducing Phenomenology to QBism and Vice Versa: Phenomenological Approaches to Quantum Mechanics Philipp Berghofer and Harald A. Wiltsche Part 1: From QBism to Phenomenology 2. Towards a World Game-Flavored as a Hawk's Wing Blake Stacey 3. QBism, Where Next? Chris Fuchs 4. A QBist Reads Merleau-Ponty Rüdiger Schack 5. Unobservable Entities in QBism and Phenomenology Jacques Pienaar Part 2: From Phenomenology to QBism 6. On the Consilience between QBism and Phenomenology Hans Christian von Baeyer 7. QBism: Realism about What? Thomas Ryckman 8. QBism: An Eco-Phenomenology of Quantum Physics Michel Bitbol and Laura de La Tremblaye Part 3: Supplementary Approaches 9. Putting Some Flesh on the Participant in Participatory Realism Steven French 10. Back to Kant! QBism, Phenomenology, and Reality-Construction from Invariants Florian Boge 11. The Role of Reconstruction in the Elucidation of Quantum Theory Philip Goyal