PERIMETER INSTITUTE RECORDED SEMINAR ARCHIVE
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Theory Confirmation in One World and its Failure in Many Speaker(s): Adrian Kent
Abstract: I discuss how we can give a satisfactory account of theory confirmation for theories with random data, such as Copenhagen quantum theory, despite the lack of a completely satisfactory definition of probabilistic theories of nature. I also explain why neither this nor any other proposed account of scientific confirmation works for many-worlds theories
Date: 02/10/2008 - 10:00 am
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