Dawid, Richard and Friederich, Simon (2019) Epistemic separability and Everettian branches---a critique of Sebens and Carroll. [Preprint]
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We discuss the proposal by Sebens and Carroll to derive the Born rule in Everettian quantum mechanics from a principle they call ‘ESP-QM.’ We argue that the proposal fails: ESP-QM is not, as Sebens and Carroll argue, a ‘less general version’ of an independently plausible principle ‘ESP’ and can only be motivated by the empirical success of quantum mechanics, including use of the Born rule. Therefore, ESP-QM cannot have the status of a meta-theoretical principle of reasoning and provides no viable basis for deriving the Born rule.
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| Additional Information: | accepted for publication by the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science critical response to: Sebens, C. T. and Carroll, S. M., 2018, ‘Self-Locating uncertainty and the origin of probability in Everettian quantum mechanics,’ British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 69:24-75. | |||||||||
| Keywords: | Everett interpretation, self-locating belief, rationality principles | |||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Evidence Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics |
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| Depositing User: | Dr. Simon Friederich | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 05 Jan 2020 10:22 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 05 Jan 2020 10:22 | |||||||||
| Item ID: | 16787 | |||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Evidence Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics |
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| Date: | 24 December 2019 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/16787 |
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