What follows when quantum theory is applied to the whole universe? This is one of the greatest puzzles of modern science. Philosophers and physicists here debate the Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics, according to which this universe is one of countlessly many others, constantly branching in time, all of which are real.
What follows when quantum theory is applied to the whole universe? This is one of the greatest puzzles of modern science. Philosophers and physicists here debate the Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics, according to which this universe is one of countlessly many others, constantly branching in time, all of which are real.
Simon Saunders is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. Jon Barrett is a Research Fellow in the Physics department at the University of Bristol Adrian Kent is a Reader in Quantum Physics at the University of Cambridge David Wallace is a lecturer in Philosophy of Physics at the University of Oxford
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* Many Worlds: an Introduction * 1. Why Many Worlds? * 1: David Wallace: Decoherence and Ontology * 2: Jim Hartle: Quasiclassical Realms * 3: Jonathan Halliwell: Macroscopic Superpositions, Decoherent Histories, and the Emergence of Hydrodynamical Behaviour * 2. Problems with Ontology * 4: Tim Maudlin: Can the world be only wavefunction? * 5: John Hawthorne: A metaphysician looks at the Everett interpretation * Commentary. Reply to Hawthorne: Physics Before Metaphysics * Transcript 1: ontology * 3. Probability in the Everett Interpretation * 6: Simon Saunders: Chance in the Everett interpretation * 7: David Papineau: A Scandal of Probability Theory * 8: David Wallace: How to prove the Born rule * 9: Hilary Greaves and Wayne Myrvold: Everett and Evidence * 4. Critical Replies * 10: Adrian Kent: One World versus Many: the Inadequacy of Everettian Accounts of Evolution, Probability, and Scientific Confirmation * 11: David Albert: Probability in the Everett picture * 12: Huw Price: Decisions, Decisions, Decisions: Can Savage Salvage Everettian Probability? * Transcript 2: Probability * 5. Alternatives to Many Worlds * 13: Wojciech Zurek: Decoherence, Einselection, Envariance, and Quantum Darwinism: From Relative States to the Existential Interpretation * 14: Jeffrey Bub and Itamar Pitowsky: Two dogmas about quantum mechanics * Commentary: Rabid Dogma? Comments on Bub and Pitowsky * 15: Rudiger Schack: The Principal Principle and Probability in the Many-Worlds interpretation * 16: Antony Valentini: Pilot-wave theory: many worlds in denial? * Commentary: Reply to Valentini * 6. Not Only Many Worlds * 17: Peter Byrne: Everett and Wheeler, the Untold Story * 18: David Deutsch: Apart from universes * 19: Max Tegmark: Many Worlds in Context * 20: Lev Vaidman: Time Symmetry and the Many-Worlds Interpretation * Transcript 3: Not (only) many worlds * Bibliography
* Many Worlds: an Introduction * 1. Why Many Worlds? * 1: David Wallace: Decoherence and Ontology * 2: Jim Hartle: Quasiclassical Realms * 3: Jonathan Halliwell: Macroscopic Superpositions, Decoherent Histories, and the Emergence of Hydrodynamical Behaviour * 2. Problems with Ontology * 4: Tim Maudlin: Can the world be only wavefunction? * 5: John Hawthorne: A metaphysician looks at the Everett interpretation * Commentary. Reply to Hawthorne: Physics Before Metaphysics * Transcript 1: ontology * 3. Probability in the Everett Interpretation * 6: Simon Saunders: Chance in the Everett interpretation * 7: David Papineau: A Scandal of Probability Theory * 8: David Wallace: How to prove the Born rule * 9: Hilary Greaves and Wayne Myrvold: Everett and Evidence * 4. Critical Replies * 10: Adrian Kent: One World versus Many: the Inadequacy of Everettian Accounts of Evolution, Probability, and Scientific Confirmation * 11: David Albert: Probability in the Everett picture * 12: Huw Price: Decisions, Decisions, Decisions: Can Savage Salvage Everettian Probability? * Transcript 2: Probability * 5. Alternatives to Many Worlds * 13: Wojciech Zurek: Decoherence, Einselection, Envariance, and Quantum Darwinism: From Relative States to the Existential Interpretation * 14: Jeffrey Bub and Itamar Pitowsky: Two dogmas about quantum mechanics * Commentary: Rabid Dogma? Comments on Bub and Pitowsky * 15: Rudiger Schack: The Principal Principle and Probability in the Many-Worlds interpretation * 16: Antony Valentini: Pilot-wave theory: many worlds in denial? * Commentary: Reply to Valentini * 6. Not Only Many Worlds * 17: Peter Byrne: Everett and Wheeler, the Untold Story * 18: David Deutsch: Apart from universes * 19: Max Tegmark: Many Worlds in Context * 20: Lev Vaidman: Time Symmetry and the Many-Worlds Interpretation * Transcript 3: Not (only) many worlds * Bibliography
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