Sunday 6 January 2008

This website is designed to present some of the preliminary work, or rather readings, concerning a potential PhD project in the Philosophy of Science.

Unfortunately, the timing for this is far from perfect. I had to join the Greek Army for my compulsory national service this February (12 months service). Meaning that not only the time I get fro studying/research is limited and fragmented, but I do not have the necessary resource with on whenever I need them. This blog is some form of a solution to this, since it saves me from having to carry lots of notes around and it is accessible from (almost) anywhere.

The first milestone is the submission of the research proposal around end the of May - beginning of June. The preliminary title for the PhD is "Theories of Truth and the Problem of Realism in Quantum Mechanics". Some of the key concepts will include the context dependency, the Kochen-Specker Theory, and the realisation or actualisation of physical measurable quantities, as well as the assigning of truth-values with reference to a quantum mechanical context.

Particular emphasis will be placed on correspondence theories of truth and their critique with reference to the context dependency in quantum mechanics.

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