ELFT HÍRADÓ

[László E.Szabó <leszabo AT hps.elte.hu>]

ELTE TTK Tudomanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszek 
Budapest, Pazmany P. setany 1/A

TUDOMANYFILOZOFIA SZEMINARIUM
(http://hps.elte.hu/seminar)
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Április 3
12:30  
6. em. 6.54

B a r r y   L o e w e r  

Rutgers University
Collegium Budapest

Many World and Many Mind Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics 

After sketching the measurement problem -or what Philip Pearle more
aptly calls "the reality problem"- for quantum theory I show how Everett
and his successors attempt to deal with the problem by reinterpreting
the quantum state as describing many simultaneously existing worlds. I
will argue that the interpretation has many attractive features but
ultimately fails in providing an appropriate account of quantum
mechanical probabilities. An even stranger interpretation called "Many
minds" (due to Albert and Loewer) solves that problem but may be too
weird to be believable.
 

A szeminarium szervezoje: E. Szabo Laszlo
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Laszlo E. Szabo
Department of Theoretical Physics
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Eotvos University, Budapest
H-1518 Budapest, Pf. 32.
Phone: (36-1)2090-555/6671
Fax: (36-1)372-2509
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