Indeterminacy and entanglement: the challenge of quantum mechanics

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 51 (4):597-615 (2000)
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I explore the nature of the problem generated by the transition from classical to quantum mechanics, and I survey some of the different responses to this problem. I show briefly how recent work on quantum information over the past ten years has led to a shift of focus, in which the puzzling features of quantum mechanics are seen as a resource to be developed rather than a problem to be solved

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reprint Bub, Jeffrey (2003) "Indeterminacy and Entanglement: The Challenge of Quantum Mechanics". In Clark, Peter, Hawley, Katherine, Philosophy of science today, pp. : Oxford University Press (2003)

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