Franklin, Alexander (2023) Incoherent? No, Just Decoherent: How Quantum Many Worlds Emerge. [Preprint]

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Abstract

The modern Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics describes an emergent multiverse. The goal of this paper is to provide a perspicuous characterisation of how the multiverse emerges making use of a recent account of (weak) ontological emergence. This will be cashed out with a case study that identifies decoherence as the mechanism for emergence. The greater metaphysical clarity enables the rebuttal of critiques due to Baker (2007) and Dawid and Thébault (2015) that cast the emergent multiverse ontology as incoherent; responses are also offered to challenges to the Everettian approach from Maudlin (2010) and Monton (2013).

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Franklin, Alexander alexander.r.franklin@kcl.ac.uk 0000-0001-6034-4575
Additional Information:	Forthcoming in Philosophy of Science
Keywords:	Quantum mechanics Everett Many Worlds Decoherence Emergence
Subjects:	General Issues > Explanation Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics General Issues > Reductionism/Holism
Depositing User:	Dr Alexander Franklin
Date Deposited:	27 Oct 2023 20:02
Last Modified:	27 Oct 2023 20:02
Item ID:	22713
Official URL:	https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/philosophy...
DOI or Unique Handle:	10.1017/psa.2023.155
Subjects:	General Issues > Explanation Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics General Issues > Reductionism/Holism
Date:	20 October 2023
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/22713

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