Abner Shimony
Biographic Data
| ID | 3785963 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abner Shimony |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abner |
| FAMILY NAME | Shimony |
| SIGNATURE | SHIMONY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Some Historical and Philosophical Reflections on Science and Enlightenment
I am grateful for the opportunity to share with you some of my convictions, anxieties, and hopes. My central conviction is the immense value of a mental outlook which can be called by the suggestive and historically recognized name Enlightenment, whose exact characterization, however, requires careful discussion. It is an outlook widely shared, though with innumerable personal variations, by the members of the Philosophy of Science Association, b…
Insolubility of the quantum measurement problem for unsharp observables
The quantum mechanical measurement problem is the difficulty of dealing with the indefiniteness of the pointer observable at the conclusion of a measurement process governed by unitary quantum dynamics. There has been hope to solve this problem by eliminating idealizations from the characterization of measurement. We state and prove two ‘insolubility theorems’ that disappoint this hope. In both the initial state of the apparatus is taken to be mi…
The Confrontation
Search for a Naturalistic Worldview. Vol. 1, Scientific Method and Epistemology; Vol. 2, Natural Science and Metaphysics
That there exists no greatest prime
On Carnap: Reflections of a metaphysical student
Naturalistic Epistemology: A Symposium of Two Decades
The status of the principle of maximum entropy
Contextual Hidden Variables Theories and Bell's Inequalities
Noncontextual hidden variables theories, assigning simultaneous values to all quantum mechanical observables, are inconsistent by theorems of Gleason and others. These theorems do not exclude contextual hidden variables theories, in which a complete state assigns values to physical quantities only relative to contexts. However, any contextual theory obeying a certain factorisability conditions implies one of Bell's Inequalities, thereby precludin…
Two Essays on Entropy
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Two Essays on Entropy. By Rudolf Carnap. Edited by Abner Shimony. (Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press. 1977. Pp. xxii+115.) Michael Redhead Michael Redhead Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 29, Issue 117, October 1979, Pages 364–366, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219456 Published: 01 October 1979
Quantum Mechanics and Objectivity: A Study of the Physical Philosophy of Werner Heisenberg
Amplifying Personal Probability Theory: Comments on L. J. Savage's “Difficulties in the Theory of Personal Probability”
Professor Savage has been candid and generous in stating his interest in philosophy, and the philosophers who have heard him are surely grateful for this. His attitude is very far from that of some competent scientists and mathematicans who purport to clear up the questions which philosophers raise concerning their disciplines by means of a battery of technical results of varying relevance—a procedure which can often be appropriately described as…
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
Contextual Hidden Variables Theories and Bell's Inequalities
Noncontextual hidden variables theories, assigning simultaneous values to all quantum mechanical observables, are inconsistent by theorems of Gleason and others. These theorems do not exclude contextual hidden variables theories, in which a complete state assigns values to physical quantities only relative to contexts. However, any contextual theory obeying a certain factorisability conditions implies one of Bell's Inequalities, thereby precludin…
The status of the principle of maximum entropy
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
Amplifying Personal Probability Theory: Comments on L. J. Savage's “Difficulties in the Theory of Personal Probability”
Professor Savage has been candid and generous in stating his interest in philosophy, and the philosophers who have heard him are surely grateful for this. His attitude is very far from that of some competent scientists and mathematicans who purport to clear up the questions which philosophers raise concerning their disciplines by means of a battery of technical results of varying relevance—a procedure which can often be appropriately described as…
Quantum Mechanics and Objectivity: A Study of the Physical Philosophy of Werner Heisenberg
Two Essays on Entropy
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Two Essays on Entropy. By Rudolf Carnap. Edited by Abner Shimony. (Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press. 1977. Pp. xxii+115.) Michael Redhead Michael Redhead Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 29, Issue 117, October 1979, Pages 364–366, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219456 Published: 01 October 1979
Contextual Hidden Variables Theories and Bell's Inequalities
Noncontextual hidden variables theories, assigning simultaneous values to all quantum mechanical observables, are inconsistent by theorems of Gleason and others. These theorems do not exclude contextual hidden variables theories, in which a complete state assigns values to physical quantities only relative to contexts. However, any contextual theory obeying a certain factorisability conditions implies one of Bell's Inequalities, thereby precludin…
The status of the principle of maximum entropy
Naturalistic Epistemology: A Symposium of Two Decades
That there exists no greatest prime
On Carnap: Reflections of a metaphysical student
The Confrontation
Search for a Naturalistic Worldview. Vol. 1, Scientific Method and Epistemology; Vol. 2, Natural Science and Metaphysics
Insolubility of the quantum measurement problem for unsharp observables
The quantum mechanical measurement problem is the difficulty of dealing with the indefiniteness of the pointer observable at the conclusion of a measurement process governed by unitary quantum dynamics. There has been hope to solve this problem by eliminating idealizations from the characterization of measurement. We state and prove two ‘insolubility theorems’ that disappoint this hope. In both the initial state of the apparatus is taken to be mi…
Some Historical and Philosophical Reflections on Science and Enlightenment
I am grateful for the opportunity to share with you some of my convictions, anxieties, and hopes. My central conviction is the immense value of a mental outlook which can be called by the suggestive and historically recognized name Enlightenment, whose exact characterization, however, requires careful discussion. It is an outlook widely shared, though with innumerable personal variations, by the members of the Philosophy of Science Association, b…
Philosophy (12 works) · Epistemology (11 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (6 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Metaphysics (4 works) · Philosophy of science (4 works) · Physics (4 works) · Philosophy of language (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Quantum Mechanics and Applications (3 works)