Understanding quantum phenomena

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Table of contents

I Understanding quantum phenomena 
1 Three ways of understanding quantum phenomena 
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Orthodox quantum mechanics and the measurement problem
1.2.1 The orthodox interpretation
1.2.2 The measurement problem
1.3 Three ways of understanding quantum phenomena
1.3.1 Bohm’s theory
1.3.2 Many Worlds
1.3.3 Collapse Theories
1.4 Outline of Part I
2 How understanding matters – or not
2.1 Notions of Understandability
2.1.1 Terminological clarifications
2.1.2 Two different notions of understandability
2.2 The Bohm vs. Many-Worlds debate over understandability
2.2.1 Bohm vs. Many-Worlds: T-understandability
2.2.2 Bohm vs. Many-Worlds: I-understandability
2.2.3 Bohm vs. Many-Worlds: minimality
2.2.4 Bohm v. Many-Worlds: IT-understandability
2.3 Understandability vs. Truth
2.4 Conclusion
3 Understanding made modest: scientific theories as families of models 
3.1 Introduction – Semantic vs. Syntactic
3.2 From the identification thesis to the dilemma
3.3 Methodological semantic view (MSV)
3.4 Cleaning up: what issues MSV addresses or not.
II Understanding Bell-type phenomena 
4 The mainstream interpretation in trouble? 
4.1 Bell-type theorems and Bell-type phenomena
4.1.1 Introduction
4.1.2 Determinateness, Determinism and Value Definiteness
4.1.3 Contextualities
4.1.4 Stochastic models
4.1.5 Locality as Factorizability
4.2 The mainstream interpretation and its critics
4.2.1 The mainstream interpretation
4.2.2 The mainstream interpretation challenged
4.3 How Jarrett and Shimony’s argument fails
4.3.1 Surface correlations and the underlying causal picture
4.3.2 From Shimony to Jarrett: A completed causal picture
4.3.3 Hidden Parameter Independence: Local and Global
4.3.4 OI*, PI*, and Superluminal Signaling
4.4 Outline of part II
4.4.1 Strategy
4.4.2 Outline
5 Fine ways to fail to secure local realism 
5.1 Introduction: Bell-type theorems, Fine’s theorem and its interpretations
5.1.1 Bell-type results, and hidden variable programs
5.1.2 Fine’s theorem and its possible interpretations
5.1.3 Fine’s three lines of argumentation
5.2 A hidden assumption in the traditional derivation?
5.2.1 Ensemble representations and joint probabilities
5.2.2 Hidden variable models outside the scope of Fine’s argument
5.3 A de facto argument: Fine’s Prism Models
5.3.1 Prism Models
5.3.2 Prism Models, the experiments, and quantum mechanics
5.4 Beyond the alternative? Fine’s strong claim
5.5 Conclusion
6 Locality in Bell-type phenomena 
6.1 Introduction
6.2 A spacetime framework for probabilistic conditions
6.2.1 A rigorous spacetime framework
6.2.2 Factorizability*, PI* and OI* in spacetime
6.3 STPI* and SEL
6.3.1 Bell’s formulation of locality in the stochastic case
6.3.2 SL is not satisfactory as a stochastic version of Einstein Locality
6.3.3 Stochastic Einstein Locality
6.3.4 SEL entails STPI*, but not STOI*
6.4 STOI* is equivalent to STPCC
6.4.1 The principle of common cause
6.4.2 The spacetime version of the PCC and its relation with STOI*
6.4.3 STPCC is not a locality condition
6.5 Conclusion
7 The various causal pictures underlying Bell-type phenomena 
7.1 How early theories of probabilistic causation fail
7.1.1 Early theories of probabilistic causation
7.1.2 The failure of accounts of causation in terms of probabilistic notions alone
7.2 Two types of theories of probabilistic causation
7.2.1 Two types of theories of causation
7.2.2 Manipulability theories of probabilistic causation
7.2.3 Spacetime theories of probabilistic causation
7.3 The respective hidden causal picture according to MPTC and STPTC
7.3.1 The hidden causal picture according to MPTC
7.3.2 The hidden causal picture according to STPC
7.4 Conclusion
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