Ways of branchmaking

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• Nick Huggett (University of Illinois Chicago)
• Wednesday 10 May 2023, 13:00-14:30
• Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

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I will use a simple model to explore the way in which ‘branches’ form and propagate locally by decoherence in quantum mechanics, aiming to clarify some of the puzzles people have had about the version of the Everrett interpretation explicated by David Wallace. My focus is on understand branches as physical (not purely formal) structures, but I will remain neutral on the further question of whether they really constitute distinct ‘worlds’. (Based on joint work with Nadia Blackshaw and James Ladyman.)

This talk is part of the CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar series.

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