Many Worlds?
Everett, Quantum Theory, & Reality
Edited by Simon Saunders, Jonathan Barrett, Adrian Kent, and David Wallace
Table of Contents
Many Worlds: an Introduction, Simon Saunders
1. Why Many Worlds?
1. Decoherence and Ontology, David Wallace
2. Quasiclassical Realms, Jim Hartle
3. Macroscopic Superpositions, Decoherent Histories, and the Emergence of Hydrodynamical Behaviour, Jonathan Halliwell
2. Problems with Ontology
4. Can the world be only wavefunction?, Tim Maudlin
5. A metaphysician looks at the Everett interpretation, John Hawthorne
Commentary. Reply to Hawthorne: Physics Before Metaphysics, James Ladyman
Transcript 1: ontology
3. Probability in the Everett Interpretation
6. Chance in the Everett interpretation, Simon Saunders
7. A Scandal of Probability Theory, David Papineau
8. How to prove the Born rule, David Wallace
9. Everett and Evidence, Hilary Greaves and Wayne Myrvold
4. Critical Replies
10. One World versus Many: the Inadequacy of Everettian Accounts of Evolution, Probability, and Scientific Confirmation, Adrian Kent
11. Probability in the Everett picture, David Albert
12. Decisions, Decisions, Decisions: Can Savage Salvage Everettian Probability?, Huw Price
Transcript 2: Probability
5. Alternatives to Many Worlds
13. Decoherence, Einselection, Envariance, and Quantum Darwinism: From Relative States to the Existential Interpretation, Wojciech Zurek
14. Two dogmas about quantum mechanics, Jeffrey Bub and Itamar Pitowsky
Commentary: Rabid Dogma? Comments on Bub and Pitowsky, Christopher Timpson
15. The Principal Principle and Probability in the Many-Worlds interpretation, Rudiger Schack
16. Pilot-wave theory: many worlds in denial?, Antony Valentini
Commentary: Reply to Valentini, Harvey Brown
6. Not Only Many Worlds
17. Everett and Wheeler, the Untold Story, Peter Byrne
18. Apart from universes, David Deutsch
19. Many Worlds in Context, Max Tegmark
20. Time Symmetry and the Many-Worlds Interpretation, Lev Vaidman
Transcript 3: Not (only) many worlds
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