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SUMMARY:The problem of confirmation in the Everett interpretation - Emily 
 Adlam (Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics)
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DESCRIPTION:I argue that the Oxford school Everett interpretation is inter
 nally incoherent\, because we cannot claim that in an Everettian universe 
 the kinds of reasoning we have used to arrive at our beliefs about quantum
  \nmechanics would lead us to form true beliefs. I show that in an Everett
 ian context\, the experimental evidence that we have available could not p
 rovide empirical confirmation for quantum mechanics\, and \nmoreover that 
 we would not even be able to establish reference to the theoretical entiti
 es of quantum mechanics. I then consider a range of existing Everettian ap
 proaches to the probability problem and show that they do not succeed in o
 vercoming this incoherence.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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