Contents

About the Author

Prologue: Why Didn’t Somebody Tell Me About All This Before?

Part I The Rules of the Game

1 The Complete Guide to Quantum Mechanics (Abridged)
Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know, and a Few Things You Didn’t

2 Just What is This Thing Called ‘Reality’, Anyway?
The Philosopher and the Scientist: Metaphysical Preconceptions and Empirical Data

3 Sailing on the Sea of Representation
How Scientific Theories Work (and Sometimes Don’t)

4 When Einstein Came Down to Breakfast
Because You Can’t Write a Book About Quantum Mechanics without a Chapter on the Bohr–Einstein Debate

Part II Playing the Game

5 Quantum Mechanics is Complete So Just Shut Up and Calculate
The View from Scylla: The Legacy of Copenhagen, Relational Quantum Mechanics, and the Role of Information

6 Quantum Mechanics is Complete But We Need to Reinterpret What it Says
Revisiting Quantum Probability: Reasonable Axioms, Consistent Histories, and QBism

7 Quantum Mechanics is Incomplete So We Need to Add Some Things
Statistical Interpretations Based on Local and Crypto Non-local Hidden Variables

8 Quantum Mechanics is Incomplete So We Need to Add Some Other Things
Pilot Waves, Quantum Potentials, and Physical Collapse Mechanisms

9 Quantum Mechanics is Incomplete Because We Need to Include My Mind (or Should That be Your Mind?)
Von Neumann’s Ego, Wigner’s Friend, the Participatory Universe, and the Quantum Ghost in the Machine

10 Quantum Mechanics is Incomplete Because…. Okay, I Give Up
The View from Charybdis: Everett, Many Worlds, and the Multiverse

Epilogue: I’ve Got a Very Bad Feeling about This

Appendix: Realist Propositions and the Axioms of Quantum Mechanics

Acknowledgements

List of Figure Acknowledgements