Three-dimensionalist Bohmian Mechanics: Does Newton Defeat Aristotle?

• Autores: Albert Solé
• Localización: VII Conference of the Spanish Society for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science: Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-20 July 2012 / Sociedad de Lógica, Metodología y Filosofía de la Ciencia en España (aut.), Concepción Martínez Vidal (dir. congr.), José L. Falguera López (dir. congr.), José Miguel Sagüillo Fernández-Vega (dir. congr.), Víctor Martín Verdejo Aparicio (dir. congr.), Martín Pereira Fariña (dir. congr.), 2012, ISBN 978-84-9887-939-1, págs. 587-594
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Bohmian mechanics can be formulated either in a quasi-Newtonian form, with the postulation of forces proportional to acceleration, or in a first-order form that can be interpreted as incorporating causal concepts akin to those of Aristotelian physics. Here I analyze whether the desideratum of an interpretation of Bohmian mechanics both explanatorily adequate and not committed to the existence of the wave function in configuration space favors one approach to the theory over the other. Contrary to some recent claims in the literature I argue that the quasi-Newtonian approach based on the idea of a quantum potential is not favored.