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Comments on Kochen’s Specification of Measurement Interactions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2023

Richard Healey
Richard Healey*
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Darwin College, Cambridge University
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Part VII. Realism and Quantum Mechanics
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PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association , Volume 1978 , Issue 2: Volume Two: Symposia and Invited Papers 1978 , 1978 , pp. 276 - 294
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Copyright © 1981 Philosophy of Science Association

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Footnotes

1

My research has been supported by the Thyssen Foundation, whose generosity permitted me to accept the invitation to comment on the lecture. I have profited from conversations with Nancy Cartwright, William Demopoulos, Hilary Putnam and Abner Shimony, as well as from the views of participants in a seminar at Cambridge University.

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Kochen’s paper, given at the PSA Meeting and discussed in these comments, was not submitted for publication. Dr. Healey’s comments are reasonably self-contained and were thought to be worth publishing even without the paper on. which the comments are being made.

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