Laws of nature and the reality of the wave function

• Autores: Mauro Dorato
• Localización: Synthese, ISSN-e 1573-0964, Vol. 192, Nº. 10, 2015, págs. 3179-3201
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In this paper I review three different positions on the wave function, namely: nomological realism, dispositionalism, and configuration space realism by regarding as essential their capacity to account for the world of our experience. I conclude that the first two positions are committed to regard the wave function as an abstract entity. The third position will be shown to be a merely speculative attempt to derive a primitive ontology from a reified mathematical space. Without entering any discussion about nominalism, I conclude that the elimination of abstract entities from one’s ontology commits one to instrumentalism about the wave function, a position that therefore is not as unmotivated as it has seemed to be to many philosophers