Veranstaltungen
What exists in the quantum world?
Workshop Organizer: Markus Aspelmeyer, Anton Zeilinger
Internationale Akademie Traunkirchen
Aim of the workshop
The aim of the workshop is to illuminate the philosophy of quantum physics from different perspectives. It is intended as a forum for new approaches to the epistemological and ontological challenges suggested by quantum physics.
Program
The workshop was carried out in an informal way, with emphasis on discussions. The program was decided spontaneously on site. Unsolved questions inspired an open working environment.
Foundation
The Templeton Research Fellows Program at IQOQI Vienna is a new and world-wide unique scheme to bring together philosophers and scientists in an attempt to generate new philosophical approaches and foundations for modern science. A particular focus of the program is to provide a basis for the challenging epistemology suggested by quantum physics. This program of direct extended collaboration among philosophers and physicists challenges participants to generate new perspectives and interpretations of the world consistent with experimental findings, theoretical advances, and human experience.
Participants
Senior Fellows: The workshop brought together philosophers and physicists. Several speakers are international leaders in the philosophy of science.
| Name | Faculty | Summeries |
| Markus Aspelmeyer | Physics Faculty, Vienna University | |
| Gennaro Auletta | “Science and Philosophy”, Pontifical Gregorian University | Features and Events |
| Tina Bilban | Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austrian Academy of Sciences & Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana | |
| Časlav Brukner | Physics Faculty, Vienna University | Quantum Theory and Beyond Is Entanglement Special |
| Jeffrey Bub | Department of Philosophy, University of Maryland | |
| Vladimir Chaloupka | Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle | |
| Raymond Chiao | Department of Physics, University of California, Merced | Do geodesics exist in the quantum world |
| Daniel Greenberger | Department of Physics, City College of New York | |
| Alexei Grinbaum | LARSIM laboratory, CEA-Saclay | |
| Richard Healey | Department of Philosophy, University of Arizona | |
| Michael Horne | Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stonehill College | |
| Tarja Kallio-Tamminen | Researcher of philosophy, academic lecturer and science writer | Universe as a hierarchically leveled whole |
| Henry Krips | School of Arts & Humanities, Claremont Graduate University | How to be a classical realist and still do Quantum Mechanics |
| Franck Laloë | Département de physique de l’ENS, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | |
| Xiaosong Ma | Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austrian Academy of Sciences | |
| Stefano Osnaghi | Department of Philosophy, Stanford University & Centre de Recherche en Epistémologie Appliquée (CREA), École Polytechnique of Paris | |
| Sorin Paraoanu | Low Temperature Laboratory, Aalto University School of Science and Technology | Counterfactuals and partial quantum measurements |
| Sven Ramelow | Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austrian Academy of Sciences | |
| Stig Stenholm | Department of Physics, Kungliga Tekniska högskolan | |
| Anton Zeilinger | Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austrian Academy of Sciences & Physics Faculty, Vienna University |
Junior Fellows
The workshop was open to a limited number of junior fellows.
