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Reviews - Many Worlds? Everett, Quantum Theory and Reality. Simon Saunders, Jonathan Barrett, Adrian Kent and David Wallace. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. xvi + 618. ISBN: 9780199560561; £55 hbk

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Many Worlds? Everett, Quantum Theory and Reality. Simon Saunders, Jonathan Barrett, Adrian Kent and David Wallace. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. xvi + 618. ISBN: 9780199560561; £55 hbk

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 June 2011

Jeremy Butterfield
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Philosophy , Volume 86 , Issue 3 , July 2011 , pp. 451 - 463
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References

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2 Two of my own attempts were: Butterfield, J., ‘Worlds, Minds and Quanta’, Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume, 69 (1995), 113–158CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and ‘Some Worlds of Quantum Theory’, in Russell, R., Polkinghorne, J., et al. (ed.), Quantum Mechanics (Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action, vol 5), (Rome: Vatican Observatory Publications, 2002), 111–140Google Scholar; available online at: arXiv.org/quant-ph/0105052; and at http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00000204.

3 M. Donald, ‘On Many-Minds interpretations of quantum theory’, (1997), available at: http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/quant-ph/pdf/9703/9703008v2.pdf.

4 Kent, A., ‘Against Many-worlds Interpretations’, International Journal of Theoretical Physics, A5 (1990), 1745–1762Google Scholar. Available online at: arXiv.org/absolute/gr-qc/9703089.

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6 Op. cit. note 5, 192, 194.

7 Op. cit. note 5, 190, 191, 194.

8 Op. cit. note 5, 201.

9 Dennett, D., ‘Real Patterns’, Journal of Philosophy 87 (1991), 27–51CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

10 Op. cit. note 4.

11 Lewis, D., ‘A Subjectivist's Guide to Objective Chance’, in Jeffrey, R. C. (ed.) Studies in Inductive Logic and Probability, (London: University of California Press, 1980)Google Scholar; reprinted in Lewis, D., Philosophical Papers, volume II, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986)Google Scholar.

12 For example, cf. Perry, J., ‘The Problem of the Essential Indexical’, Nous 13 (1979), 3–21CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Lewis, D., ‘Attitudes De Dicto and De Se’, Philosophical Review 88 (1979), 513–543CrossRefGoogle Scholar, reprinted in his Philosophical Papers, volume I, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983)Google Scholar.