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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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Reasoning about quantum actions

a logician's perspective

Sonja Smets

pp. 125-134

Abstract

In this paper I give an overview of how the work on quantum dynamic logic for single systems (as developed in [2]) builds on the concepts of (dynamic) modal logic and incorporates the methodology of logical dynamics and action based reasoning into its setting. I show in particular how one can start by modeling quantum actions (i.e. measurements and unitary evolutions) in a dynamic logic framework and obtain a setting that improves on the known theorems in traditional quantum logic (stated in the context of orthomodular lattices).

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Andersen Hanne, Dieks Dennis, Uebel Thomas, González Wenceslao J., Wheeler Gregory (2013) New challenges to philosophy of science. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 125-134

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-5845-2_11

Full citation:

Smets Sonja (2013) „Reasoning about quantum actions: a logician's perspective“, In: H. Andersen, D. Dieks, T. Uebel, W. J. González & G. Wheeler (eds.), New challenges to philosophy of science, Dordrecht, Springer, 125–134.