Abstract

VAN FRAASSEN, Bas C. Relational quantum mechanics: Rovelli's world. discus.filos [online]. 2010, vol.11, n.17, pp.13-51. ISSN 0124-6127.

Carlo Rovelli's inspiring Relational Quantum Mechanics serves several aims at once: it provides a new vision of what the world of quantum mechanics is like, and it offers a program to derive the theory's formalism from a set of simple postulates pertaining to information processing. I propose here to concentrate entirely on the former, to explore the world of quantum mechanics as Rovelli depicts it. It is a fascinating world in part because of Rovelli's reliance on the information theory approach to the foundations of quantum mechanics, and in part because its presentation involves taking sides on a fundamental divides within philosophy itself.

Keywords : Carlo Rovelli; Einstein-Podolski-Rosen; quantum information; relational quantum mechanics.

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