Effects and Propositions

TL;DR

This paper examines the influence of quantum logical and information-theoretic traditions on Bub's views of quantum mechanics, highlighting the centrality of frameworks and proposing new ideas from information theory as alternatives to quantum logic.

Contribution

It analyzes the representational frameworks of quantum logic and information theory, emphasizing their philosophical implications and introducing new ideas as alternatives to quantum logic.

Findings

Quantum logic remains central to Bub's interpretation.

Quantum information ideas offer a new framework alternative.

Implications for understanding the Kochen-Specker theorem.

Abstract

The quantum logical and quantum information-theoretic traditions have exerted an especially powerful influence on Bub's thinking about the conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics. This paper discusses both the quantum logical and information-theoretic traditions from the point of view of their representational frameworks. I argue that it is at this level, at the level of its framework, that the quantum logical tradition has retained its centrality to Bub's thought. It is further argued that there is implicit in the quantum information-theoretic tradition a set of ideas that mark a genuinely new alternative to the framework of quantum logic. These ideas are of considerable interest for the philosophy of quantum mechanics, a claim which I defend with an extended discussion of their application to our understanding of the philosophical significance of the no hidden variable theorem of Kochen and Specker.