Philosophy of Physics Seminar (Thursday - Week 4, TT23)
Thursday 18 May, 4:30pm
Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities
Paul Skokowski (Stanford): 'Superpositions and beliefs about superpositions'
David Albert and Jeff Barrett have discussed a simple Everettian interpretation of quantum mechanics they call the bare theory. Under the bare theory, experiments may have superpositional rather than determinate outcomes. What, in such a world, would an observer of an experiment's beliefs about these superpositional results be like? In this talk I’ll challenge some claims about how to evaluate the belief states of observers in a bare, no-collapse world, and in so doing consider how we should interpret these states.
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