Table of Contents

Simon Saunders: Many Worlds: an Introduction
1. Why Many Worlds?
1: David Wallace: Decoherence and Ontology
2: Jim Hartle: Quasiclassical Realms
3: Jonathan Halliwell: Macroscopic Superpositions, Decoherent Histories, and the Emergence of Hydrodynamical Behaviour
2. Problems with Ontology
4: Tim Maudlin: Can the world be only wavefunction?
5: John Hawthorne: A metaphysician looks at the Everett interpretation
James Ladyman: Commentary. Reply to Hawthorne: Physics Before Metaphysics
Transcript 1: ontology
3. Probability in the Everett Interpretation
6: Simon Saunders: Chance in the Everett interpretation
7: David Papineau: A Scandal of Probability Theory
8: David Wallace: How to prove the Born rule
9: Hilary Greaves and Wayne Myrvold: Everett and Evidence
4. Critical Replies
10: Adrian Kent: One World versus Many: the Inadequacy of Everettian Accounts of Evolution, Probability, and Scientific Confirmation
11: David Albert: Probability in the Everett picture
12: Huw Price: Decisions, Decisions, Decisions: Can Savage Salvage Everettian Probability?
Transcript 2: Probability
5. Alternatives to Many Worlds
13: Wojciech Zurek: Decoherence, Einselection, Envariance, and Quantum Darwinism: From Relative States to the Existential Interpretation
14: Jeffrey Bub and Itamar Pitowsky: Two dogmas about quantum mechanics
Christopher Timpson: Commentary: Rabid Dogma? Comments on Bub and Pitowsky
15: Rudiger Schack: The Principal Principle and Probability in the Many-Worlds interpretation
16: Antony Valentini: Pilot-wave theory: many worlds in denial?
Harvey Brown: Commentary: Reply to Valentini
6. Not Only Many Worlds
17: Peter Byrne: Everett and Wheeler, the Untold Story
18: David Deutsch: Apart from universes
19: Max Tegmark: Many Worlds in Context
20: Lev Vaidman: Time Symmetry and the Many-Worlds Interpretation
Transcript 3: Not (only) many worlds
Bibliography

About the Author

Simon Saunders is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford.
Jonathan Barrett is a Research Fellow in the Physics department at the University of Bristol
Adrian Kent is a Reader in Quantum Physics at the University of Cambridge
David Wallace is a lecturer in Philosophy of Physics at the University of Oxford

Reviews

This book provides arguably the most vivid and comprehensive treatment of both state-of-the art developments within and criticism of the Everett interpretation.
*Guido Bacciagaluppi, Metascience*

written with great clarity by some of the best minds in contemporary foundations of physics... a fine read, summarizing nicely the state of the art in one of the most radical no-collapse interpretations of quantum theory.
*Amit Hagar, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews*