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Physics Bulletin

The Shaky Game: Einstein, Realism and the Quantum Theory

Lewis Pyenson

Published Jun 1, 1987• 384 citations
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Abstract

Arthur Fine 1986 Chicago: University of Chicago Press xi + 186 pp price £21.25 ISBN 0 226 24946 8 The Shaky Game concentrates on Einstein's view of quantum mechanics, largely the matter of indeterminacy. Although the author wants to distance himself from recent unnamed French hermeneuts and exegetes, we see here precisely the shaky game identified by Lucien Febvre in 1928 – one where a commentator seeks to 'engender concepts from disincarnated minds which live their lives beyond time and space'.

DOI
10.1088/0031-9112/38/6/029

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Arthur Fine 1986 Chicago: University of Chicago Press xi + 186 pp price £21.25 ISBN 0 226 24946 8 The Shaky Game concentrates on Einstein's view of quantum mechanics, largely the matter of indeterminacy. Although the author wants to distance himself from recent unnamed French hermeneuts and exegetes, we see here precisely the shaky game identified by Lucien Febvre in 1928 – one where a commentator seeks to 'engender concepts from disincarnated minds which live their lives beyond time and space'.
The primary title of this essay is derived from Arthur Fine's recent book, The Shaky Game (1986), which is a rephrasing of “risky game”, a term Einstein applied to the defenders of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, claiming that “‘most of them simply do not see what sort of risky game they are playing with reality‘” (Fine 1986, 2). Just as Einstein's term indicates his disagreement with this standard interpretation of quantum mechanics, Fine's term is being used to express disapproval of his interpretation of the philosophy of physics of Einstein and Bohr. The subtitle forecasts my evaluation of Fine's attempt in NOA (the “Natural Ontological Attitude”) to provide a satisfactory ontological basis of scientific inquiry.