Don Howard
Dept. of Philosophy, Notre Dame University
What is commonly known as the Copenhagen
Interpretation of quantum mechanics, regarded as representing a unified
Copenhagen point of view, differs considerably from Bohr's original
'complementarity' interpretation, which does not employ wave-function
collapse in its account of measurement, and does not accord the
subjective observer any privileged role in measurement. I argue that
the Copenhagen interpretation is an invention of the mid-1950's, for
which Heisenberg is chiefly responsible- various other physicists and
philosophers including Bohm, Feyerabend, Hanson, and Popper having
further promoted the invention in service of their own
philosophical agendas.
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