GRW as an ontology of dispositions

GRW as an ontology of dispositions

The paper argues that the formulation of quantum mechanics proposed by Ghirardi, Rimini and Weber (GRW) is a serious candidate for being a fundamental physical theory and explores its ontological commitments from this perspective. In particular, we propose to conceive of spatial superpositions of non-massless microsystems as dispositions or powers, more precisely propensities, to generate spont...

Forthcoming in Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics GRW as an Ontology of Dispositions1

The interpretation of quantum theory proposed by Ghirardi, Rimini and Weber (1986) (GRW) is realist with respect both to the quantum domain and to the classical domain. That is to say, it acknowledges that in the physical world there are both quantum superpositions, including entanglement, as well as classical properties. The aim of GRW is to put forward a coherent and unifying dynamics that co...

The Ontology of Pure Dispositions

Dispositions and Processes in the Emotion Ontology

Affective science conducts interdisciplinary research into the emotions and other affective phenomena. Currently, such research is hampered by the lack of common definitions of terms used to describe, categorise and report both individual emotional experiences and the results of scientific investigations of such experiences. High quality ontologies provide formal definitions for types of entiti...

Dispositions and the Infectious Disease Ontology

This paper addresses the use of dispositions in the Infectious Disease Ontology (IDO). IDO is an ontology constructed according to the principles of the Open Biomedical Ontology (OBO) Foundry and uses the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) as an upper ontology. After providing a brief introduction to disposition types in BFO and IDO, we discuss three general techniques for representing combinations of...