[PhilPhys] Lisbon Philosophy of Physics Seminars: Jean Bricmont (September 28 on Zoom)

[Andrea Oldofredi]

Dear List Members,

On Wednesday September 28 Jean Bricmont (Université Catholique de Louvain) will
open the second series of the Lisbon Philosophy of Physics Seminars with
the talk titled "*Why Bohm and only Bohm?*" (abstract below).

These seminars are organized in the context of the activities of the LanCog
Research Group <https://cful.letras.ulisboa.pt/lancog/> at the Centre of
Philosophy of the University of Lisbon, and they will focus on the
foundations of quantum and spacetime physics.

The meeting will be held on Zoom (17:00-19:00 CEST). If you have not
registered yet, you can do so here
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1pe9-CUZwKFA_uS0j-wD7bRQatIO-SdzxBqKlmkM6XOY/edit?usp=drive_web>
.

You can address any question to Andrea Oldofredi (
aoldofredi at letras.ulisboa.pt).

ABSTRACT:
It is often claimed that there are three "realist" versions of quantum
mechanics: the de Broglie-Bohm theory or Bohmian mechanics, the spontaneous
collapse theories and the many worlds interpretation. We will explain why
the two latter proposals suffer from serious defects coming from their
ontology (or lack thereof) and that the many worlds interpretation is
unable to account for the statistics encoded in the Born rule. The de
Broglie-Bohm theory, on the other hand, has no problem of ontology and
accounts naturally for the Born rule.

Best regards,

Andrea Oldofredi
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Dr. Andrea Oldofredi

Postdoc FCT

Internet Resources:
https://unil.academia.edu/AndreaOldofredi
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrea_Oldofredi

Mailing Address:
University of Lisbon
Centre of Philosophy
Alameda da Universidade, 1600-214, Lisbon
Portugal
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