Callender, Craig (2007) The Emergence and Interpretation of Probability in Bohmian Mechanics. [Preprint]

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A persistent question about the deBroglie–Bohm interpretation of quantum mechanics concerns the understanding of Born’s rule in the theory. Where do the quantum mechanical probabilities come from? How are they to be interpreted? These are the problems of emergence and interpretation. In more than 50 years no consensus regarding the answers has been achieved. Indeed, mirroring the foundational disputes in statistical mechanics, the answers to each question are surprisingly diverse. This paper is an opinionated survey of this literature. While acknowledging the pros and cons of various positions, it defends particular answers to how the probabilities emerge from Bohmian mechanics and how they ought to be interpreted.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Callender, Craig
Additional Information:	This is a slightly longer and uncorrected version of the paper published in Studies in History and Philosophy of modern Physics 38 (2007), 351-370.
Keywords:	Bohmian mechanics; quantum mechanics; probability; statistical mechanics
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Statistical Mechanics/Thermodynamics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics
Depositing User:	Craig Callender
Date Deposited:	30 Oct 2008
Last Modified:	07 Oct 2010 15:17
Item ID:	4263
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Statistical Mechanics/Thermodynamics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics
Date:	January 2007
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/4263

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