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SUMMARY:Metaphysics of Quantum Theory
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LOCATION:University of Birmingham\, Birmingham\, United Kingdom\, B15 2TT
DESCRIPTION:<p>SPEAKERS</p>\n<p>Alexander Franklin (King&rsquo\;s College London)</p>\n<p>Vera Matarese (University of Bern)</p>\n<p>John Murphy (University of Birmingham)</p>\n<p>Joshua Quirke (University of Birmingham)</p>\n<p>Alastair Wilson (University of Birmingham)</p>\n<p>LOCATION</p>\n<p>Frankland Building\, room 1125 (campus map)<br>University of Birmingham<br>Pritchatt&rsquo\;s Road<br>Birmingham B15 2TT</p>\n<p>SCHEDULE (PROVISIONAL)</p>\n<p><em>Monday</em>&nbsp\;<em>3 October</em></p>\n<p>10.00-11.00: John Murphy<br>&ldquo\;Branch Counting as a Route to Everettian Probability&rdquo\;</p>\n<p>11.15 -12.15: Joshua Quirke<br>&ldquo\;World Number in Everettian Quantum Mechanics&rdquo\;</p>\n<p>13.30 -14.30: Alastair Wilson<br>&ldquo\;Quantum Interventions&rdquo\;</p>\n<p>14.45 -15.45: Vera Matarese<br>&ldquo\;Scientifically-informed metaphysics for the EPRB-quantum correlation: why there is no room for radical metaphysical hypotheses&rdquo\;</p>\n<p>16.00-17.00: Alexander Franklin<br>&ldquo\;Incoherent? No\, Just Decoherent: How Quantum Many Worlds Emerge&rdquo\;</p>\n<p>ABSTRACTS</p>\n<p>Alexander Franklin (King&rsquo\;s College London)<br>&ldquo\;Incoherent? No\, Just Decoherent: How Quantum Many Worlds Emerge&rdquo\;<br>The modern Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics describes an emergent multiverse. The goal of this talk is to provide a perspicuous characterisation of how the multiverse emerges making use of a recent account of (weak) ontological emergence. This will be cashed out with a case study that identifies decoherence as the mechanism for emergence. The greater metaphysical clarity enables the rebuttal of critiques from Maudlin (2010)\, Monton (2013)\, and Dawid and Th&eacute\;bault (2015) that cast the emergent multiverse ontology as incoherent or empirically ungrounded.</p>
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