The Quantum Labyrinth

The Quantum Labyrinth, A Treatise on Quantum Mechanics and Comparative Metaphysics.- 1 Realism, empiricism, pluralism.- 1.1 Realism versus empiricism.- 1.2 Metaphysical pluralism.- 2 Comparative metaphysics.- 2.1 Ambiguity and meta-ambiguity.- 2.2 Describing complex systems.- 3 The construction of physical reality.- 3.1 A model of theories.- 3.2 Contexts.- 3.3 Further elaborations on contextual semantics.- 4 Quantum mechanics.- 4.1 Logical peculiarities of QM.- 4.2 Measurement postulates.- 5 ‘Recent’ developments in measurement theory.- 5.1 Effect valued measures.- 5.2 Operation valued measures.- 5.3 Some cases in measurement theory.- 5.4 ABL measures.- 6 Contextual QM.- 6.1 The initial contextual formulation of QM.- 6.2 Quantum process theory.- 6.3 A particle interpretation.- 6.4 Event theory.- 7 Completeness and locality.- 7.1 Quantum ‘theory’?.- 7.2 Contextual QM and completeness.- 7.3 Splitting magnitudes.- 7.4 The incompleteness of the standard formalism of QM.- 7.5 Locality.- 7.6 Speculations on time-symmetry, causality, and quantum gravity.- 8 A maze of QMs.- 8.1 General methodological remarks.- 8.2 Nonclassical alternatives.- 8.3 Variations on the initial formalism.- 8.4 The Von Neumann chain.- 8.5 Relative process states.- 8.6 Conclusions.- 9 Quantum Event Theory, A Tetrode-Fokker version of Quantum Field Theory.- 9.1 Quantum events.- 9.2 Event fields.- 9.3 Field equations.- 9.4 The correspondence between field theory and event theory.- 9.5 Probabilities reconsidered.- 10 Contextual logic.- 10.1 The general structure of contextual logic.- 10.2 Some applications.- 10.3 Relevance, truth, reality.- 10.4 End.