Against the empirical viability of the Deutsch-Wallace-Everett approach to quantum mechanics

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2014.05.005zbMATH Open1294.81014OpenAlexW2121548718MaRDI QIDQ407333FDOQ407333

Authors: Richard Dawid, Karim P. Y. Thébault 

Publication date: 29 August 2014

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2014.05.005

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zbMATH Keywords

Everett interpretationmany worldsempirical viability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Decision theory (91B06) Physics (00A79) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Noncommutative probability and statistics (46L53)

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• In defence of Everettian decision theory
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• Many worlds: decoherent or incoherent?
• A general argument against the universal validity of the superposition principle
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