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Quantum Theory and Novel Scientific Language: Defending a Pragmatist View

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 September 2025

Tanner Leighton*
Affiliation:
University of Pittsburgh Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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This paper advocates for a pragmatist view on quantum theory, offering a response to David Wallace’s recent criticisms of Richard Healey’s quantum pragmatism. In particular, I challenge Wallace’s general claim that quantum pragmatists—and anti-representationalists more broadly—lack the resources to make sense of the novel ‘quantum’ language used throughout modern physics in applications of quantum theory. I conclude by posing a challenge to quantum representationalists.

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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Philosophy of Science Association