The Quantum Revolution in Philosophy (Book Review)
Eddy Keming Chen

TL;DR
Richard Healey's book advocates a pragmatist interpretation of quantum theory, viewing it as a set of prescriptions for agents rather than a description of physical reality, bridging physics and philosophy.
Contribution
The paper introduces a novel pragmatist interpretation of quantum theory, contrasting it with existing realist and non-realist views, emphasizing its prescriptive nature.
Findings
Offers a detailed philosophical development of the prescriptive interpretation.
Provides arguments supporting the interpretation's coherence and plausibility.
Discusses implications for understanding quantum phenomena and agency.
Abstract
In this thought-provoking book, Richard Healey proposes a new interpretation of quantum theory inspired by pragmatist philosophy. Healey puts forward the interpretation as an alternative to realist quantum theories on the one hand such as Bohmian mechanics, spontaneous collapse theories, and many-worlds interpretations, which are different proposals for describing what the quantum world is like and what the basic laws of physics are, and non-realist interpretations on the other hand such as quantum Bayesianism, which proposes to understand quantum theory as describing agents' subjective epistemic states. The central idea of Healey's proposal is to understand quantum theory as providing not a description of the physical world but a set of authoritative and objectively correct prescriptions about how agents should act. The book provides a detailed development and defense of that idea, and…
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