The Oxford Handbook of the History of Quantum Interpretations

Olival Freire Jr is Professor of Physics and History of Science at the Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil. He is the author of The Quantum Dissidents (2015) and David Bohm: A Life Dedicated to Understanding the Quantum World (2019). In 2011 he co-edited Teoria quântica: estudos históricos e implicações culturais with Osvaldo Pessoa Jr. and Joan Lisa Bromberg and was awarded the Jabuti Prize in Science & Technology, the most important literary prize in Brazil.

Olival Freire Jr, Guido Bacciagaluppi, Olivier Darrigol, Thiago Hartz, Christian Joas, Alexei Kojevnikov, and Osvaldo Pessoa Jr.: Introduction
Part I - Quantum physics: scientific and philosophical issues under debate
1: Franck Laloë: Quantum mechanics is routinely used in laboratories with great success, but no consensus on its interpretation has emerged
2: Wayne Myrvold: Philosophical issues raised by quantum theory and its interpretations
Part II - Historical landmarks of the interpretations and foundations of quantum physics
3: Anthony Duncan and Michel Janssen: Quantization conditions, 1900-1925
4: Massimiliano Badino: Of weighting and counting: statistics and ontology in the old quantum theory
5: Helge Kragh: Dead as a doornail? Zero-point energy and Low-temperature physics in early quantum theory
6: Martin Jähnert and Christoph Lehner: The early debates about the interpretation of quantum mechanics
7: Christian Joas: Foundations and applications: the creative tension in the early development of quantum mechanics
8: Guido Bacciagaluppi: The statistical interpretation: Born, Heisenberg and von Neumann, 1926-27
9: Klaus Hentschel: A perennially grinning Cheshire cat? Over a century of experiments on light quanta and their perplexing interpretations
10: Daniela Monaldi: The evolving understanding of quantum statistics
11: Osvaldo Pessoa Jr.: The measurement problem
12: Michel Paty: Einstein's criticisms of quantum mechanics
13: David Kaiser: Tackling loopholes in experimental tests of Bell's inequality
14: Thiago Hartz: The measuring process in quantum field theory
15: Alexander Blum and Bernadette Lessel: The interpretation debate and quantum gravity
16: Alexei Grinbaum: Quantum information and the quest for reconstruction of quantum theory
17: Olivier Darrigol: Natural reconstructions of quantum mechanics
18: Klaas Landsman: The axiomatization of quantum theory through functional analysis: Hilbert, von Neumann, and beyond
19: Fabio Freitas: Tony Leggett's challenge to quantum mechanics and its path to decoherence
Part III - Places and contexts relevant for the interpretations of quantum theory
20: Don Howard: The Copenhagen interpretation
21: Anja Skaar Jacobsen: Copenhagen and Niels Bohr
22: Elise Crull: Grete Hermann's Interpretation of quantum mechanics
23: Climério Paulo da Silva Neto: Instrumentation and the foundations of quantum mechanics
24: José G. Perillán: Early Solvay councils: rhetorical lenses for quantum convergence and divergence
25: Flavio Del Santo: The foundations of quantum mechanics in post-war Italy's cultural context
26: Jean-Philippe Martinez: Foundations of quantum physics in the Soviet Union
27: Kenji Ito: Early Japanese reactions to the interpretation of quantum mechanics, 1927-1943
28: Josep Simon: Form and meaning: textbooks, pedagogy, and the canonical genres of quantum mechanics
29: Indianara Silva: Chien-Shiung Wu's contributions to experimental philosophy
30: Sebastián Murgueitio Ramírez: On how Epistemological Letters changed the foundations of quantum mechanics
31: Thomas Ryckman: Quantum interpretations and 20th century philosophy of science
Part IV - Historical and philosophical theses
32: Stefano Osnaghi: Bohr and the epistemological lesson of quantum mechanics
33: Olival Freire Jr: Making sense of the century-old scientific controversy over the quanta
34: Kristian Camilleri: Orthodoxy and heterodoxy in the postwar era
35: Paul Forman: The reception of the Forman thesis in modernity and postmodernity
36: Alexei Kojevnikov: Quantum historiography and cultural history: revisiting the Forman thesis
37: Richard Staley: The co-creation of classical and modern physics and the foundations of quantum mechanics
38: Giora Hon and Bernard R. Goldstein: Interpretation in electrodynamics, atomic theory, and quantum mechanics
Part V - The proliferation of interpretations
39: Jeffrey Bub: Hidden variables
40: Jeffrey Barrett: Pure wave mechanics, relative states, and many worlds
41: Hervé Zwirn: Is QBism a possible solution to the conceptual problems of quantum mechanics?
42: Karen Barad: Agential realism: a relation ontology interpretation
43: Carlo Rovelli: Relational interpretation
44: Jean-Jacques Szczeciniarz and Joseph Kouneiher: Philosophy of wholeness and the general and new concept of order: Bohm's and Penrose's points of view
45: Valia Allori: Spontaneous localization theories
46: Decio Krause, Jonas Arenhart, and Otavio Bueno: The non-individuals interpretation of quantum mechanics
47: Dennis Dieks: Modal interpretations of quantum mechanics
48: Gustavo Rocha, Dean Rickles, and Florian Boge: A brief historical perspective on the consistent histories interpretation of quantum mechanics
49: Jean Bricmont: Einstein, Bohm and Bell: a comedy of errors
50: Alexander Pechenkin: The statistical (ensemble) interpretation of quantum mechanics
51: Emilio Santos: Stochastic interpretations of quantum mechanics