Saving Science from Quantum Mechanics - The Epistemology of the Measurement Problem

Adlam reconceptualizes the quantum measurement problem as a problem of epistemology, and in doing so presents a novel perspective on the issue, offering a new approach to finding valid solutions.

List of contents

• 1: Prologue


• 2: What is the Measurement Problem?


• 3: Some Solutions


• 4: The Epistemology of Measurement


• 5: Strategy


• 6: The Everett Interpretation


• 7: No Worse Off


• 8: Bayesianism


• 9: Observer-Relative Interpretations


• 10: First and Third Person Views of Science


• 11: Primitive Ontology, Fundamentality, and Scale


• 12: Superdeterminism and Naturalness


• 13: Where to from Here?


• 14: Conclusion

About the author

Dr Emily Adlam is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Chapman University. She completed her PhD in theoretical physics at the University of Cambridge, and studied physics and philosophy at the University of Oxford. She is a winner of the Blaumann Prize (2023), and the annual FXQi Essay Competition (2017).

Product details

• Authors: Emily Adlam
• Publisher: Oxford Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 14.08.2025
• EAN: 9780197808856
• ISBN: 978-0-19-780885-6
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, SCIENCE / Physics / Quantum Theory, Philosophy of Science, Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory), Quantum physics (quantum mechanics and quantum field theory)