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Yearbook 7/99
Epistemological and Experimental Perspectives on Quantum Physics
Eds. Daniel Greenberger et al.

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Table of Contents

Editorial

IX

Articles

ABNER SHIMONY, Philosophical and Experimental Perspectives on Quantum Physics
   (6th Vienna Circle Lecture)

1
HELMUT RAUCH, Neutron Quantum Experiments and their Epistemological Impact 19
GIAN-CARLO GHIRARDI, The Dynamical Reduction Program: An Example of a Quantum
  Theory Without Observers
43
CATHERINE CHEVALLEY, Why do we Find Bohr Obscure? 59
JEAN-MARC LÉVY-LEBLOND, Quantum Words for a Quantum World 75
YURI F. ORLOV, Quantum and Classical Gödelian Indeterminism, Measurement,
  and Informational Collapse into the Past
89
ROLAND OMNČS, Recent Advances in the Consistency of Interpretation 103
BASIL HILEY, Active Information and Teleportation 113
DIK BOUWMEESTER, JIAN-WEI PAN, HARALD WEINFURTER, ANTON ZEILINGER,
  Experimental Quantum Teleportation of Qubits and Entanglement Swapping
127
H.J. KIMBLE, Quantum Teleportation 141
H.J. BRIEGEL, J. I. CIRAC, W. DÜR, G. GIEDKE, P. ZOLLER, Quantum Repeaters for Quantum Communication 147
SERGE HAROCHE, Quantum Engineering with Atoms and Photons in a Cavity 155
WOJCIECH H. ZUREK, JUAN P. PAZ, Why We Don't Need Quantum Planetary Dynamics:
   Decoherence and the Correspondence Principle for Chaotic Systems
167
KURT GOTTFRIED, Is the Statistical Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
   Implied by the Correspondence
179
WALTER THIRRING, The Histories of Chaotic Quantum Systems 187
ERHARD OESER, Epistemological Problems of Measurement in Quantum Mechanics
   and the Appearance of the Classical World of Macroscopic Objects
199
MICHAEL A. HORNE, Complementarity of Fringe Visibilities In Three-Particle Quantum
   Mechanics
211

Short Presentations

MARKUS ARNDT, OLAF NAIRZ, GERBRAND VAN DER ZOUW, ANTON ZEILINGER,
   Towards Coherent Matter Wave Optics with Macromolecules

221
MIRJANA BOZIC, DUSAN ARSENOVIC, Comparison of Wigner_s Function and
   De Broglian Probability Density for a Wave Packet and the Wave Packets Superposition
225
ASLAV BRUKNER, ANTON ZEILINGER, Quantum Complementarity and Information
   Invariance
231
THOMAS BUSCH, J.I. CIRAC, J.R. ANGLIN, P. ZOLLER, Fermi Inhibition in
  Inhomogeneous Atomic Gases
235
MATTHEW DANIELL, DIK BOUWMEESTER, JIAN-WEI PAN,HARALD WEINFURTER,
   ANTON ZEILINGER,
Observation of Three-particle Entanglement
239
CLAUDIA KELLER, JÖRG SCHMIEDMAYER, ANTON ZEILINGER, Matter Wave Diffraction
  at Standing Light Waves
245
LASZLO ROPOLYI, PÉTER SZEGEDI, Zenonian Arguments in Quantum Mechanics 253
MICHAEL STÖLTZNER, What John von Neumann Thought of the Bohm Interpretation 257
GERBRAND VAN DER ZOUW, ANTON ZEILINGER, Observation of the Nondispersivity
   of Scalar Aharonov-Bohm Phase Shifts by Neutron Interferometry
263
GREGOR WEIHS, THOMAS JENNEWEIN, CHRISTOPH SIMON, HARALD WEINFURTER, ANTON ZEILINGER , A Bell Experiment under Strict Einstein Locality Conditions 267
PATRICK ZARDA, SURASAK CHIANGGA, THOMAS JENNEWEIN, HARALD WEINFURTER,
  Quantum Mechanics and Secret Communication
271
MAREK ZUKOWSKI, DAGOMIR KASZLIKOWSKI, Greenberger- Horne-Zeilinger Paradox
   for Three Tritters
275

Report-Documentation
FRIEDRICH STADLER AND ILKKA A. KIESEPPÄ, Science - A House Built on Sand?
   A Conversation with NORETTA KOERTGE
279
WESLEY SALMON, Ornithology in a Cubical World: Reichenbach on Scientific Realism 303
KURT BLAUKOPF, The Shortcomings of the TV-Screen in Cultural Communication 317

Review Essay
LÁSZLÓ E. SZABÓ, Quantum Measurement: On this Side of Paradox 337

Reviews
ALAN W. RICHARDSON, Carnap_s Construction of the World.
  The Aufbau and the Emergence of Logical Empiricism, 1996 (Werner Sauer)
347
KEITH LEHRER AND JOHANN CHRISTIAN MAREK (EDS.), Austrian Philosophy Past
   and Present. Essays in Honor of Rudolf Haller, 1997 (Kevin Mulligan)
350
JESUS PADILLA GALVEZ ET AL. (EDS.), Wittgenstein y el Circulo de Viena /Wittgenstein
   und der Wiener Kreis: Actas del Congreso Internacional, Toledo 1994, 1998
   (Nelson G. Gomes
353
NORETTA KOERTGE (ED.), A House Built on Sand. Exposing Postmodernist
  Myths About Science. 1998 (I.A. Kieseppä)
356
JOHN EARMAN AND JOHN D. NORTON (EDS.), The Cosmos of Science. 1997
   (Thomas Breuer)
360

Activities of the Institute Vienna Circle
Survey 1999/2000 365
Preview 2001 368
Obituaries: Kurt Blaukopf, Wilhelm Frank 369
INDEX OF NAMES 375