Pub Date : 2025-04-05DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.02.004
Dan Zahavi
In his book A Phenomenological Approach to Quantum Mechanics: Cutting the Chain of Correlations Steven French presents an interpretation of Fritz London’s and Edmond Bauer’s 1939 monograph La théorie de l’observation en mécanique quantique that acknowledges and engages with the phenomenological theorizing underlying their approach to the measurement problem. My aim in the following contribution is twofold. I will first offer some historical and systematic arguments for why it might indeed be worthwhile to explore the link between phenomenology and quantum mechanics. In the second part of the paper, I will then look closer at French’s interpretation, especially his understanding of reflection, and express some reservations about a central argument of his.
史蒂文-弗伦奇（Steven French）对弗里茨-伦敦（Fritz London）和埃德蒙德-鲍尔（Edmond Bauer）1939 年的专著《量子力学的观测理论》（La théorie de l'observation en mécanique quantique）进行了解读，承认并参与了他们解决测量问题的现象学理论。我的以下贡献有两个目的。首先，我将提供一些历史性和系统性的论据，说明为什么现象学与量子力学之间的联系确实值得探讨。在论文的第二部分，我将仔细研究弗伦奇的解释，尤其是他对反思的理解，并对他的一个核心论点持保留意见。
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Pub Date : 2025-03-24DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2024.11.001
Chris Talbot editor
David Bohm’s orginal abstract is given below.
大卫-博姆的原始摘要如下。
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Pub Date : 2025-03-20DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2024.12.009
Jeffrey Elawani , Filippo Costantini
From 1686 onward, Leibniz is engaged in a dispute with Cartesian physicists on the correct expression for the quantity of force in moving bodies. In the 1690s, he puts forth an argument for his own expression that is allegedly based on the science of quantity in general (or the art of estimation). Leibniz states that the latter requires the quantity of force to be determined by the real repetitions of a measure. It would follow that his expression for force is the correct one. Now, commentators have not been sensitive to the ingenuity of the argument presented here. In this paper, focussing on the exchange between Johann Bernoulli and Leibniz, we want to show how this argument consists essentially in pushing for a certain conception of the mathematization of force based, in turn, on a serious conception of measurement of quantities. This conception exploits the conservative properties of physical systems in order to apply general principles of determination of quantity to the special case of the quantity of force. We conclude by confronting our interpretation with others which posit a stronger connection between measurement and metaphysics in Leibniz.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-20DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.03.002
Cláudio Alexandre S. Carvalho
Medical science has been recognized as an important component of the project for the anatomy of the “invisible Part of Man” presented in The Fable of the Bees, allowing Bernard Mandeville to describe the naturalistic foundations of morality and politics. Paradoxically, the acknowledgment of “self-denial” originating in the social mechanisms that conceal and repress egoistic impulses and interests has contributed to a stereotypical reading of Mandeville’s Treatise of the Hypochondriack and Hysterick Diseases, according to which a materialistic management of the passions is the primary, if not the only, way to access and treat dysfunctions. Starting with a study of Mandeville's conception of the principles of human nature, exposed in The Fable of the Bees, this article will revise that presumption by focusing on the therapeutic forms of observation emerging in the three dialogues of the Treatise.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-19DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.02.003
Collin Lucken , Tim Elmo Feiten
Our paper explores new potentials for productive dialogue between public engagement with science (PEWS) and radical embodied cognitive science (RECS). We establish a strong connection between the two fields by highlighting parallels between the views they reject: the ‘deficit model’ in science communication and the ‘information processing paradigm’ in cognitive science. Furthermore, we show that the positive visions of PEWS and RECS are similarly aligned: The concept of participatory sense-making from enactive cognitive science provides an account of why active, dialogical engagement in science communication is so effective. Conversely, processes in which affected communities actively engage developments in science and technology through contribution and contestation provide an invaluable case study for RECS accounts of emergent dynamics in techno-cultural systems. After establishing the connection between PEWS and RECS, we motivate the need for what we call ‘participatory cognitive strategies’. Finally, a brief case study shows the potential for these strategies in actively involving different groups of stakeholders throughout the development of large-scale AI systems, allowing us to make a conceptual contribution to ongoing debates about the meaning of ‘democratizing AI’ in this project and in the larger AI initiative of which it is a part.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-18DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.03.003
Thomas Uebel
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Pub Date : 2025-03-12DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.02.002
Noa Lahav Ayalon
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Pub Date : 2025-03-07DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.02.001
Steven French
In 1939 London and Bauer published a ‘little book’ that shaped the debate over the role of consciousness in resolving the measurement problem in quantum mechanics. Mistakenly understood as merely summarising von Neumann’s account, both sides in the debate failed to appreciate its phenomenological underpinnings. London not only originally studied phenomenology but continued thinking about and discussing this approach in the years leading up to the publication of his work with Bauer, most notably with Gurwitsch, who likewise had a dual background in phenomenological philosophy and physics. In the book, A Phenomenological Approach to Quantum Mechanics: Cutting the Chain of Correlations (French, 2023), the historical background to London and Bauer’s work is set out prior to situating it within the context of Husserl’s philosophy as a whole. It is concluded that the London and Bauer phenomenological account offers a potentially fruitful way forward through various dichotomies, such as that between psi-ontic and psi-epistemic accounts and between interpretational and reconstructive approaches more generally, as well as with regard to understanding quantum physics more generally.
In this paper London and Bauer’s insistence that quantum mechanics should be seen as a theory of knowledge in its own right is emphasized, where this must be taken as phenomenologically grounded. Hopefully this work will be viewed as contributing to a revised phenomenological understanding of modern physics, standing alongside Ryckman’s The Reign of Relativity (Ryckman, 2005) and Berghofer and Wiltsche’s edited collection Phenomenological Approaches to Physics (Berghofer & Wiltsche, 2020).
1939 年，伦敦和鲍尔出版了一本 "小书"，引发了关于意识在解决量子力学测量问题中的作用的争论。争论双方都误认为这本书只是对冯-诺依曼的论述进行了总结，而没有意识到这本书的现象学基础。伦敦不仅最初学习过现象学，而且在他与鲍尔的研究成果发表之前的几年里一直在思考和讨论这种方法，其中最著名的是与古尔维奇的讨论，后者同样具有现象学哲学和物理学的双重背景。在《量子力学的现象学方法》一书中：切断相关链》（法文版，2023 年）一书中，在将伦敦和鲍尔的工作置于胡塞尔哲学的整体背景下之前，先阐述了其工作的历史背景。本文强调了伦敦和鲍尔的坚持，即量子力学本身应被视为一种知识理论，而这必须以现象学为基础。希望这部著作能与雷克曼的《相对论的统治》（The Reign of Relativity）（雷克曼，2005 年）以及伯格霍夫和威尔茨彻编辑的《物理学的现象学方法》（Phenomenological Approaches to Physics）（伯格霍夫和威尔茨彻，2020 年）一起，被视为对现代物理学现象学理解的修正。
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Pub Date : 2025-03-06DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.01.001
Vadim Keyser , Hannah Howland
Robustness analysis is a methodological process of identifying results that converge over a variety of independent identifications, models, measurements, or derivations. In this discussion, we focus on measurement robustness, where convergent results are obtained over different measurement methods, indicating reliable detection. Our aim is to identify a methodological problem with convergent results applicable to measurement practice in inequitable social contexts. We argue that even under ideal function of measurement robustness, there is still a deeper methodological problem about measurement choices and strategies: the ‘sacrifice of representational adequacy for generality’ (SRAG). We detail SRAG and then apply it using two case studies, where convergent measurements conceal pollution masking and pollution burden. Finally, we offer a solution to SRAG through the analysis of robust community-based data practices. By describing the community-led efforts behind Shingle Mountain and the Joppa Environmental Health Project, we illustrate how an effective cross-checking structure can correct measurement goals and strategies, thereby, promoting representational adequacy.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-28DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2024.12.001
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
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