Objective description in physics

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I argue against the claim -- advocated by Albert Einstein, Bernard Williams, and Ted Sider, among others -- that a description is objective only if it says how the world is in itself. Instead, I argue for the claim -- inspired by comments of Niels Bohr -- that a family of descriptions is objective only if they co-vary with their respective descriptive contexts. Moreover, I claim that "there is a shared objective reality" simply means that it is possible to satisfy this kind of covariance requirement.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLogic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology : Bridging Across Academic Cultures: Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Congress in Prague
EditorsTomáš Marvan, Hanne Andersen, Hasok Chang, Benedikt Löwe, Ivo Pezlar
PublisherCollege Publications
Publication date2022
Pages111-132
ISBN (Print)978-1-84890-368-5
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Externally publishedYes

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