Pashby, Thomas (2014) Quantum Mechanics for Event Ontologists. In: UNSPECIFIED.

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Abstract

In an event ontology, matter is 'made up of' events. This provides a distinctive foil to the standard view of a quantum state in terms of properties possessed by a system. Here I provide an argument against the standard view and suggest instead a way to conceive of quantum mechanics in terms of probabilities for the occurrence of events localized in space and time. To that end I construct an appropriate probability space for these events and give a way to calculate them as conditional probabilities. I suggest that these probabilities can be usefully thought of as Lewisian objective chances.

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Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED)
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Pashby, Thomas tom.pashby@gmail.com
Keywords:	quantum events, events, time, chances, conditional probability, event ontology
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics
Depositing User:	Dr. Thomas Pashby
Date Deposited:	24 Jun 2014 15:04
Last Modified:	24 Jun 2014 15:04
Item ID:	10783
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics
Date:	2014
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/10783

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