Mioara Mugur-Schächter

Mioara Mugur-Schächter is a French-Romanian physicist specialized in the foundations of quantum mechanics, probability theory, and theory of communication of information.^[1] She is also an epistemologist.^[1] As a professor at the University of Reims, she founded there the Laboratoire de Mécanique Quantique et Structures de l'Information, which she directed until 1997.^[1]

During an interview in 2015, Mugur-Schäcter explained how she worked on the invalidation of John von Neumann's no hidden variables proof during her PhD.^[2] Her academic advisor was Louis de Broglie.^[3]

She published on the Method of Relativized Conceptualization (MRC), an epistemological approach in which knowledge is actively constructed through systematic relativization of all conceptual descriptions rather than discovered as pre-existing truth.^{[4] [5][6]} In the 1990's she organized a working group (Centre d'études pour la synthèse d'une épistémologie formelle) in French epistemological circles and edited a book collecting epistemologic studies.^[7] which influenced further philosophical work.^[8][9]

She proposed a theory of factual probabilities that is consequence of MRC, where interpretative issues associated with the differences between classical and quantum axiomatic structures are resolved by an observation-dependent connection between statistics and probability.^[10]

This formulation attracted the attention of Karl Popper, who invited her to publish this framework in two volumes of a special issue commemorating his 90th birthday in the journal Foundations of Physics. ^[11][12].

This framework is considered one of the alternative to the interpretations of probability^[13], and has been extensively discussed in the foundations of probability circles either in books or meetings by notable figures such as Michel Paty, Jean Petitot, Michel Bitbol, Giuseppe Longo, and others. ^{[14] [15] [16] [17]}

In 2011 Mugur-Schächter organized a debate on the concepts of randomness, statistics and probability with Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara, Cristian Calude, Giuseppe Longo and Cristian Calude ,^[18] that was published as part of a special issue of Mathematical Structures in Computer Science.^[19]