- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- Many Worlds? An Introduction
-
1 Decoherence and Ontology (or: How I learned to stop worrying and loveFAPP ) -
2 Quasiclassical Realms -
3 Macroscopic Superpositions, Decoherent Histories, and the Emergence of Hydrodynamic Behaviour -
4 Can the World be Only Wavefunction? -
5 A Metaphysician Looks at theE verett Interpretation1 -
Commentary: Reply to
H awthorne: Physics before Metaphysics1 - Transcript: Ontology
-
6 Chance in theE verett Interpretation -
7 A Fair Deal forE verettians -
8 How to Prove theB orn Rule -
9 E verett and Evidence -
10 One World Versus Many: The Inadequacy ofE verettian Accounts of Evolution, Probability, and Scientific Confirmation -
11 Probability in theE verett Picture -
12 Decisions, Decisions, Decisions: CanS avage SalvageE verettian Probability? - Transcript: Probability
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13 Quantum Jumps,B orn's Rule, and Objective Reality -
14 Two Dogmas About Quantum Mechanics -
Rabid Dogma? Comments on
B ub andP itowsky -
15 The Principal Principle and Probability in the Many‐Worlds Interpretation -
16 D eB roglie–B ohmP ilot‐Wave Theory: Many Worlds in Denial? -
Reply to
V alentini, ‘D eB roglie–B ohm Pilot‐Wave Theory: Many Worlds in Denial?’ -
17 E verett andW heeler: the Untold Story -
18 Apart from Universes -
19 Many Worlds in Context -
20 Time Symmetry and the Many‐Worlds Interpretation - Transcript: Not (Only) Many Worlds
- Index
Commentary: Reply to Hawthorne: Physics before Metaphysics 1
Commentary: Reply to Hawthorne: Physics before Metaphysics 1
- Chapter:
- (p.154) Commentary: Reply to Hawthorne: Physics before Metaphysics1
- Source:
- Many Worlds?
- Author(s):
James Ladyman (Contributor Webpage)
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The metaphysical conception of the generation of the macroworld from fundamental physics that Hawthorne considers is criticized in this Commentary, and compared with the scientific account offered by Halliwell and Hartle. It is argued that Hawthorn's critique of Everettian quantum mechanics fails.
Keywords: emergence, Hawthorne, manifest image, metaphysics, naturalism, reduction, top-down, vagueness, Hartle
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- Many Worlds? An Introduction
-
1 Decoherence and Ontology (or: How I learned to stop worrying and loveFAPP ) -
2 Quasiclassical Realms -
3 Macroscopic Superpositions, Decoherent Histories, and the Emergence of Hydrodynamic Behaviour -
4 Can the World be Only Wavefunction? -
5 A Metaphysician Looks at theE verett Interpretation1 -
Commentary: Reply to
H awthorne: Physics before Metaphysics1 - Transcript: Ontology
-
6 Chance in theE verett Interpretation -
7 A Fair Deal forE verettians -
8 How to Prove theB orn Rule -
9 E verett and Evidence -
10 One World Versus Many: The Inadequacy ofE verettian Accounts of Evolution, Probability, and Scientific Confirmation -
11 Probability in theE verett Picture -
12 Decisions, Decisions, Decisions: CanS avage SalvageE verettian Probability? - Transcript: Probability
-
13 Quantum Jumps,B orn's Rule, and Objective Reality -
14 Two Dogmas About Quantum Mechanics -
Rabid Dogma? Comments on
B ub andP itowsky -
15 The Principal Principle and Probability in the Many‐Worlds Interpretation -
16 D eB roglie–B ohmP ilot‐Wave Theory: Many Worlds in Denial? -
Reply to
V alentini, ‘D eB roglie–B ohm Pilot‐Wave Theory: Many Worlds in Denial?’ -
17 E verett andW heeler: the Untold Story -
18 Apart from Universes -
19 Many Worlds in Context -
20 Time Symmetry and the Many‐Worlds Interpretation - Transcript: Not (Only) Many Worlds
- Index
