Saunders, Simon (2016) Chance in the Everett interpretation. [Preprint]
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The notion of objective probability or chance, as a physical trait of the world, has proved elusive; the identification of chances with actual frequencies does not succeed. An adequate theory of chance should explain not only the connection of chance with statistics, but with degrees of belief, and more broadly the entire phenomenology of (seemingly) chance events and their measurement. Branching structure in the decoherence-based many worlds theory provides an account of what chance is that satisfies all these desiderata, including the requirement that chance involves uncertainty.\
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| Additional Information: | 27 pages, 3 figures. This is lightly edited reprint (with added footnotes and a new appendix) of 'Chance in the Everett interpretation', in "Many Worlds? Everett, quantum theory, and reality", S. Saunders, J. Barrett, A. Kent, and D. Wallace (eds.), Oxford 2010. | ||||||
| Keywords: | Quantum mechanics, probability, Born rule, many worlds, Everett, chance | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics General Issues > Decision Theory General Issues > Determinism/Indeterminism General Issues > Explanation Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism |
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| Depositing User: | simon saunders | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 16 Sep 2016 13:33 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 16 Sep 2016 13:33 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 12441 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics General Issues > Decision Theory General Issues > Determinism/Indeterminism General Issues > Explanation Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism |
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| Date: | 15 September 2016 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/12441 |
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