Lugano Philosophy Colloquia. Alyssa Ney !!CANCELLED!!

!!EVENT CANCELLED!!

We regret to announce that the Lugano Philosophy Colloquia session on December 4 at 16:30 CET has been CANCELLED. Due to extreme weather conditions in Munich, Professor Alyssa Ney could not make it to Lugano. Therefore, her talk "The Argument from Locality for Many Worlds Quantum Mechanics" will take place neither in person nor online on Zoom.

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We are pleased to announce that on Monday, December 4 at 16:30 (CET), Alyssa Ney (UC Davis) will give the talk The Argument from Locality for Many Worlds Quantum Mechanics as part of the Lugano Philosophy Colloquia Fall 2023 organised by the Institute of Philosophy (ISFI) at USI.  

This hybrid talk will take place in the Multiuso room, Theology Building, USI West Campus and online via Zoom. If you are interested in joining it online, please write to [email protected] For more information: https://www.usi.ch/en/feeds/25721   

Abstract: 

One motivation for preferring the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics over realist rivals, such as collapse and hidden variables theories, is that the interpretation is able to preserve locality (in the sense of no action at a distance) in a way these other theories cannot. The primary goal of this paper is to make this argument for the many worlds interpretation precise, in a way that does not rely on controversial assumptions about the metaphysics of many worlds.