Against the empirical viability of the Deutsch-Wallace-Everett approach to quantum mechanics

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2014.05.005zbMath1294.81014OpenAlexW2121548718MaRDI QIDQ407333

Karim P. Y. Thébault, Richard Dawid

Publication date: 29 August 2014

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2014.05.005

zbMATH Keywords

Everett interpretationmany worldsempirical viability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Decision theory (91B06) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Noncommutative probability and statistics (46L53) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Physics (00A79)

Related Items (7)

The logic of experimental tests, particularly of Everettian quantum theory ⋮ In defence of Everettian decision theory ⋮ Quantum probability: a reliable tool for an agent or a reliable source of reality? ⋮ Everettian Probabilities, The Deutsch-Wallace Theorem and the Principal Principle ⋮ Derivations of the Born Rule ⋮ Analysis of Wallace's proof of the Born rule in Everettian quantum mechanics. II: Concepts and axioms ⋮ Many worlds: decoherent or incoherent?

Cites Work

• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item
• Quantum probability from subjective likelihood: improving on Deutsch's proof of the probability rule
• Quantum probability and many worlds
• Uncertainty and probability for branching selves
• On the Everettian epistemic problem
• Measurement outcomes and probability in Everettian quantum mechanics
• Everett and the Born rule
• Probabilities from entanglement, Born’s rule<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mi>p</mml:mi><mml:mi>k</mml:mi></mml:msub><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:msup><mml:mrow><mml:mo>∣</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mi>ψ</mml:mi><mml:mi>k</mml:mi></mml:msub><mml:mo>∣</mml:mo></mml:mrow><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msup></mml:mrow></mml:math>from envariance
• Quantum theory of probability and decisions

This page was built for publication: Against the empirical viability of the Deutsch-Wallace-Everett approach to quantum mechanics