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Interpretations of QM with Applications for Formal Epistemology

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Quantum Interaction (QI 2016)

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Associated with the Copenhagen school, the External Observation View of quantum mechanics depicted a quantum state as evolving deterministically, but with interruptions when ‘collapsed’ by measurement interactions. I will point to an analogy with the doxastic state studied in epistemology, and show that this analogy suggests an application of the quantum mechanical formalism that leads to a proof of one solution of a central problem in formal epistemology. I will end with some critical remarks.

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  1. Department of Philosophy, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, 94132, USA

    Bas C. van Fraassen

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    Jose Acacio de Barros

  2. University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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  3. City University of London, London, United Kingdom

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van Fraassen, B.C. (2017). Interpretations of QM with Applications for Formal Epistemology. In: de Barros, J., Coecke, B., Pothos, E. (eds) Quantum Interaction. QI 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10106. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52289-0_1

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