Radical Perspectivalism, Locality and Relativity

Dennis Dieks*

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Abstract

Perspectivalism is a natural ingredient of unitary one-world quantum mechanics. After briefly reviewing arguments for this thesis, we argue that a radical version of perspectivalism is able to provide local and relativistically covariant accounts of physical processes, and thus offers a way out of several no-go theorems. According to this radical perspectivalism, different perspectives are independent of each other and remain so even when they make causal contact. This leads to a worldview that is highly counter-intuitive, but does not lead to conflicts with experience. Moreover, locality and compatibility with relativity theory are positive points of radical perspectivalism.

Original languageEnglish
Article number30
JournalFoundations of Physics
Volume55
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr 2025

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Keywords

  • covariance
  • locality
  • Perspectivalism
  • relativity

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