Hello all, Unless anyone wants to put their hands up for Nov 26 current projects, this coming week is the last one I have scheduled for this year. I thought we would start up again in Feb of 08. So if people want to get in early and request slots, get out those digits, and if you're really keen, whole limbs, and let me know.
In the meantime we have Peter Lewis to talk to us on Everett v. Bohm: Who's in Denial? Same time same place. See you all there... Abstract: Everett's "many-worlds" theory and Bohm's "hidden variable" theory are arguably the two leading solutions to the measurement problem in quantum mechanics. However, Deutsch has argued that Bohm's theory is just Everett's theory "in a state of chronic denial"-that is, that there's really just one solution to the measurement problem, and it's Everett's. In a forthcoming article, I attempt to rebut this argument and others like it, arguing that Bohm's theory provides a distinct solution to the measurement problem. But I am now in two minds about my published argument. On the one hand, I think I conceded too much to the Everettians, and that a stronger rebuttal of Deutsch's argument is possible. On the other, I find myself attracted to a version of the view that Bohm's theory and Everett's are in some sense the same physical theory. But even if this position is tenable, I don't think it follows that it is the Bohmians, in particular, who are in denial. Dr. Kristie Miller Australian Research Council Post-doctoral Fellow School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry and The Centre for Time The University of Sydney Sydney, Australia Room 411, A18 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: (work) 02 93569663 Ph: (mobile) 0432 275 286 http://homepage.mac.com/centre.for.time/KristieMiller/Kristie/Home%20Page.html _______________________________________________ SydPhil mailing list [email protected] List Info: http://lists.arts.usyd.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/sydphil NEW LIST ARCHIVE: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
