Speaker
Carlo Rovelli
Description
The relational interpretations of quantum mechanics, started in the late 1990's, are suddenly receiving a great deal of attention in the literature. I review the basic ideas, the problems raised, the variants and the current status of this way of looking at quantum theory, which offers a coherent picture of the quantum world without hidden variables, without many worlds, without physical collapse, and without giving a privileged role to betting agents. I will focus on the peculiar philosophical position of these interpretations, which keep themselves away from both a naive form of realism and from instrumentalism.
Author
Carlo Rovelli
