Steeger, Jer and Read, James (2025) Everettian chance in no uncertain terms. [Preprint]
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The current landscape of views on chance in the Everett interpretation is rocky. Everettians (Wallace 2012, Sebens and Carroll 2018, McQueen and Vaidman 2019) agree that chance should be derived using principles governing uncertain or partial belief, but they cannot agree on how. Critics (Baker 2007, Dawid and Thébault 2015, Mandolesi 2019) maintain that any such approach is circular. We smooth the landscape by shifting focus from what Everettians take to be uncertain to what they should think is certain: namely, the conditions under which branches are isolated. Our approach to isolation resolves the main tensions among the different Everettian chance derivations while clarifying how they avoid circularity.
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| Keywords: | Everett interpretation, quantum mechanics, many worlds, probability, uncertainty, decision theory | |||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics |
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| Depositing User: | Dr. James Read | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 17 Sep 2025 11:07 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 17 Sep 2025 11:07 | |||||||||
| Item ID: | 26677 | |||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics |
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| Date: | 16 September 2025 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/26677 |
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