Chance, Causality, and Determinism in Quantum Mechanics

• The worldview of the end of 19th century physics: determinism, locality, Markovity
• The fundamental conceptions of QM
• QM as non-classical probability theory
  • Classical probability theory
  • Interpretations of probability
    
  • Probability on Hilbert lattice
    
  • Relationship between quantum and classical probability
  • Quantum logic
    
  • Two different interpretations of quantum probability
• The measurement paradox
  • Two different interpretations of the wave function
  • The measurement paradox and its popular formulations (Schrödinger's cat, etc.)
• No Go theorems of QM
  • Neumann theorem
    
  • Jauch--Piron theorem
  • Kochen--Specker theorem
  • The Einstein--Podolsky--Rosen argument
    
  • "Laboratory Record" theorem
    
  • Bell theorem
    
  • Reichenbach's common cause principle
    
  • Greenberger--Horne--Zeilinger theorem
    
  • No Go theorems and determinism
• Free will and QM
  • The context of the probem of free will
  • The Newcomb paradox
  • Phenomenology of free will
  • Free will and QM
    
• Possible Resolutions
  • The "Kolmogorovian Censorship" hypothesis
  • Arthur Fine’s Interpretation of Quantum Statistics

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