From phenomenological-hermeneutical approaches to realist perspectivism

Khalili, Mahdi

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“…Accordingly, we cannot achieve an objective view on the world, our experiences are necessarily incomplete and perspectival, by engaging with the world we constitute and thereby change the sense of the objects we encounter, and we only have limited knowledge of the present and the future. It is a commonplace in phenomenology that a purely objective third-person perspective is unreachable (see, e.g., [ 4 ] and [ 58 ]). As Zahavi puts it: “There is no pure third-person perspective, just as there is no view from nowhere.…”

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Quantum Reconstructions as Stepping Stones Toward ψ-Doxastic Interpretations?

Berghofer

2024

Found Phys

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In quantum foundations, there is growing interest in the program of reconstructing the quantum formalism from clear physical principles. These reconstructions are formulated in an operational framework, deriving the formalism from information-theoretic principles. It has been recognized that this project is in tension with standard ψ-ontic interpretations. This paper presupposes that the quantum reconstruction program (QRP) (i) is a worthwhile project and (ii) puts pressure on ψ-ontic interpretations. Where does this leave us? Prima facie, it seems that ψ-epistemic interpretations perfectly fit the spirit of information-based reconstructions. However, ψ-epistemic interpretations, understood as saying that the wave functions represents one’s knowledge about a physical system, recently have been challenged on technical and conceptual grounds. More importantly, for some researchers working on reconstructions, the lesson of successful reconstructions is that the wave function does not represent objective facts about the world. Since knowledge is a factive concept, this speaks against epistemic interpretations. In this paper, I discuss whether ψ-doxastic interpretations constitute a reasonable alternative. My thesis is that if we want to engage QRP with ψ-doxastic interpretations, then we should aim at a reconstruction that is spelled out in non-factive experiential terms.

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Quantum Reconstructions as Stepping Stones Toward ψ-Doxastic Interpretations?

Berghofer

2024

Found Phys

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“…This results in a perspectivist view at the perceptual and epistemological levels of discussion. The manifestation of an object is perspectival in the sense that it may be perceived and known differently depending on the bodily and technological perspectives that make it possible to interact with the object and on the (theoretical) concepts that interpret it (see section 5; see also Khalili 2021;2022b) for the display of 'persistence', are prepared. That said, entities may resist being excluded from existence even when the appropriate conditions are not fully prepared.…”

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Reality as Persistence and Resistance

Khalili

2024

Perspectives on Science

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This paper proposes a way to understand the meaning of reality (in science). It first supports the ontological view that reality consists of persistent potentialities, which resist being excluded from existence. A study of the cases of the Higgs boson and the hypothetical F-particle helps to illustrate how real entities persist and resist. The paper then suggests that, perceptually speaking, the results of ordinary perception or observational processes persistently appear under appropriate conditions, and they resist disappearance even when the conditions are not completely appropriate. It also argues that, epistemologically speaking, a truthful theory resists being falsified and persists across replicable observations and experiments. Overall, discussing the notion of reality in the context of the philosophy of science, science and technology studies, and phenomenology, the paper explicates the ‘real’ on the basis of these two concepts: ‘persistence’ and ‘resistance’.

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“… 6 For this reason, entity/experimental realism is compatible with perspectivism (see Khalili 2022b, 2021, section 3).…”

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A Dialogue among Recent Views of Entity Realism

Khalili

2023

Philos. sci.

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This paper concerns the recent revival of entity realism. Having been started with the work of Ian Hacking, Nancy Cartwright and Ronald Giere, the project of entity realism has recently been developed by Matthias Egg, Markus Eronen, and Bence Nanay. The paper opens a dialogue among these recent views on entity realism and integrates them into a more advanced view. The result is an epistemological criterion for reality: the property-tokens of a certain type may be taken as real insofar as only they can be materially inferred from the evidence obtained in a variety of independent ways of detection.

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From phenomenological-hermeneutical approaches to realist perspectivism

Cited by 4 publications

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Quantum Reconstructions as Stepping Stones Toward ψ-Doxastic Interpretations?

Quantum Reconstructions as Stepping Stones Toward ψ-Doxastic Interpretations?

Reality as Persistence and Resistance

A Dialogue among Recent Views of Entity Realism

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