Platonic Wholes and Quantum Ontology

Marek Woszczek, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland) and has published on the metaphysics of nature, the philosophy of physics, the history of early modern physics, Naturphilosophie and the philosophy of religion.

• Contents: Ontological models of composition and quantum systems – Internalistic compositionism and Platonic wholes – Quantum nonseparability as an ur-phenomenon of mechanics – Global nonseparability, local contextuality and time-symmetric quantum mechanics – Leibnizian ‘Liaison’, the classical blockworld with internal dynamics and the physics of global histories – Quantum blockworld ontology with internal, generalized dynamics and the Universal Principle of Relativity – Quantum theory as a deepening of relativity (D.R. Finkelstein) – Relational quantum mechanics and Carlo Rovelli’s programme – Quantum topology.