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Modalidad en mecánica cuántica

Autores/as

Resumen

En este trabajo, proponemos un marco metafísico naturalista para una variante del posibilismo basada en una concepción bilocalizada de la modalidad. Luego de revisar problemas característicos de posiciones alternativas, exploramos la aplicación de este marco al caso de la interpretación modal-hamiltoniana de la mecánica cuántica. Finalmente, revisamos problemas previos a la luz de esta nueva propuesta.

Palabras clave:

modalidad, posibilismo, leyes de la naturaleza, interpretación modal-hamiltoniana

Biografía del autor/a

Bruno Borge, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Licenciado y doctor en filosofía, Universidad de Buenos Aires. Es investigador adjunto de CONICET (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas) y docente de Filosofía de las Ciencias en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de BuenosAire. Investigador visitante en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, el Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science de la London School of Economics and Political Science, el Departamento de Filosofía I de la Universidad de Granada, el Departamento de Filosofía de la Universidad de Málaga, y el Centre d’Histoire des Philosophies Modernes de la Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Áreas de interés: metafísica y epistemología de la ciencia.

Olimpia Lombardi, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Ingeniera en electrónica, licenciada y doctora en filosofía, Universidad de Buenos Aires. Investigadora superior de CONICET (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas). Miembro Correspondiente de laAcademie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences. Honorary Fellow del John Bell Institute for the Foundations of Physics. Miembro del Foundational QuestionsInstitute.Associate
Researcher del Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science of the London School of Economics and Political Science. Editora asociada de Foundations of Physics, Foundations of Chemistry y Philosophy of Physics.

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