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Bohm's broader metaphysics remains outside mainstream academic physics and philosophy.

The Claim

David Joseph Bohm's metaphysical views do not have broad acceptance in contemporary academic physics or philosophy.

The Short Version

Bohm's broader metaphysics remains a minority position in academic physics and philosophy. Authoritative reference works and scholarly studies describe Bohmian mechanics as historically outside mainstream acceptance and the implicate order as largely absent from contemporary philosophy of physics. Specialized research and some pragmatic use of Bohmian methods do not amount to broad acceptance of Bohm's metaphysical framework.

Caveats

  • “Metaphysical views” groups together several distinct ideas whose reception is not identical.
  • Bohmian mechanics has an active specialist literature, but this should not be confused with broad academic acceptance.
  • Some cited evidence concerns the scientific interpretation or practical use of Bohmian mechanics rather than Bohm's entire metaphysical system.

The Receipts

  1. Bohmian mechanics - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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  2. Bohmian Mechanics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

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  3. Bohm on Order, Structure and Process - IOPscience

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  4. Bohm on Order, Structure and Process - IOPscience

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  5. David Bohm’s philosophy of science in his causal interpretation of quantum mechanics | Synthese | Springer Nature Link

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  6. Orthodox or dissident? The evolution of Bohm’s ontological reflections in the 1950s | The European Physical Journal H (EPJ H)

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  7. Bohm's theory of quantum mechanics and the notion of classicality

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  8. Historical and Introductory Account of Bohmian Mechanics

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  9. De Broglie–Bohm theory

    en.wikipedia.org

  10. Bohmian mechanics: A legitimate hydrodynamic picture for quantum mechanics, and beyond - IOPscience

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