Dulani, Saakshi (2025) Not the Measurement Problem's Problem: Black Hole Information Loss with Schrödinger's Cat. Philosophy of Science, 92 (5). ISSN 0031-8248

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Abstract

Recently, several philosophers and physicists have increasingly noticed the hegemony of unitarity in the black hole information loss discourse and are challenging its legitimacy in the face of the measurement problem. They proclaim that embracing non-unitarity solves two paradoxes for the price of one. Though I share their distaste over the philosophical bias, I disagree with their strategy of still privileging certain interpretations of quantum theory. I argue that information-restoring solutions can be interpretation-neutral because the manifestation of non-unitarity in Hawking's original derivation is unrelated to what's found in collapse theories or generalized stochastic approaches, thereby decoupling the two puzzles.

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Item Type:	Published Article or Volume
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Dulani, Saakshi saakshi.dulani@jhu.edu 0009-0001-2405-4113
Keywords:	philosophy of physics, metaphysics, black holes, Hawking radiation, information loss, quantum mechanics, measurement problem
Subjects:	General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics General Issues > Determinism/Indeterminism General Issues > Laws of Nature Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Gravity Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Field Theory Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory General Issues > Structure of Theories
Depositing User:	Dr. Saakshi Dulani
Date Deposited:	31 May 2026 12:44
Last Modified:	31 May 2026 12:44
Item ID:	29821
Journal or Publication Title:	Philosophy of Science
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Official URL:	https://doi.org/10.1017/ psa.2025.10118
DOI or Unique Handle:	10.1017/ psa.2025.10118
Subjects:	General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics General Issues > Determinism/Indeterminism General Issues > Laws of Nature Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Gravity Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Field Theory Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory General Issues > Structure of Theories
Date:	2025
Volume:	92
Number:	5
ISSN:	0031-8248
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/29821

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