TUDOMANYFILOZOFIA SZEMINARIUM, B. L o e w e r

ELTE TTK Tudomanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszek Budapest, Pazmany P. setany 1/A TUDOMANYFILOZOFIA SZEMINARIUM (http://hps.elte.hu/seminar) ________________________________________________ Április 3 12:30 6. em. 6.54 B a r r y L o e w e r Rutgers University Collegium Budapest Many World and Many Mind Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics After sketching the measurement problem -or what Philip Pearle more aptly calls "the reality problem"- for quantum theory I show how Everett and his successors attempt to deal with the problem by reinterpreting the quantum state as describing many simultaneously existing worlds. I will argue that the interpretation has many attractive features but ultimately fails in providing an appropriate account of quantum mechanical probabilities. An even stranger interpretation called "Many minds" (due to Albert and Loewer) solves that problem but may be too weird to be believable. A szeminarium szervezoje: E. Szabo Laszlo -- Laszlo E. Szabo Department of Theoretical Physics Department of History and Philosophy of Science Eotvos University, Budapest H-1518 Budapest, Pf. 32. Phone: (36-1)2090-555/6671 Fax: (36-1)372-2509 Home: (36-1)200-7318 http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo