Ponencia invitada: Quantum systems as bundles of properties

OLIMPIA LOMBARDI

Córdoba

Jornada; III Jornadas de Fundamentos de Cuántica; 2013

Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

The purpose of the present work is to consider the traditional interpretive problems of quantum mechanics from the viewpoint of a modal ontology of properties. This approach follows previous works focused on the Modal-Hamiltonian Interpretation of quantum mechanics. However, here I will take a more general standpoint since not linked to a particular interpretation: the proposal will only require a modal reading of the quantum ontology. In particular, I will try to delineate a quantum ontology that (i) is modal, because describes the structure of the realm of possibility, and (ii) lacks the ontological category of individual object. On this basis, a quantum system is a bundle of properties represented by the so-called ?observables? in the physical discourse. The final goal is to supply an adequate account of quantum indistinguishability on the basis of this ontology.