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The Structure and Interpretation of Quantum MechanicsR. I. G. Hughes Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 1989, ix + 369 pp., US$42.50

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2010

Steven F. Savitt
Affiliation:
University of British Columbia

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Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1993

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Notes

1 Mermin, N. David, “Spooky Actions at a Distance: Mysteries of the Quantum Theory,” in his Boojums All the Way Through (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), p. 111.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 Physical Review, 47 (1935): 777–80.CrossRefGoogle Scholar Reprinted in Quantum Theory and Measurement, edited by J. A. Wheeler and W. H. Zurek (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983), pp. 138–41.

3 Stairs, Allen, in a “Review Essay” in Synthese, 86 (1991): 120, points out that Hughes's own interpretation must countenance purely disjunctive quantum events.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

4 The generalized probability functions are defined on orthalgebras rather than Boolean algebras, and generalized conditional probabilities are given by Lüder's rule.

5 See Cushing, James T.'s “Quantum Theory and Explanatory Discourse: End Game for Understanding?” in Philosophy of Science, 58 (1991)CrossRefGoogle Scholar, for a review of discussions of the distinction between explanation and understanding.

6 I wish to thank Edwin Levy for helpful advice in preparing this review.