Sponsors/Organizing institutions
Archives Husserl, ÉcoleNormale Supérieure, Paris
Institute for QuantumOptics and Quantum Information, Vienna
Organizers
Michel Bitbol
Časlav Brukner
StefanoOsnaghi
Contact
StefanoOsnaghi
What is the relationship between rational agency and thequantum? One way to approach this question is to focus on probabilism,the doctrine that rational beliefs ought to conform to theprobability calculus. To the extent that the beliefs prescribed by quantummechanics cannot be interpreted in terms of ordinary probabilities, a way ofpreserving the spirit, if not the letter, of probabilism in view ofquantum phenomena is to introduce new criteria of rationality which selectcertain classes of “generalized probabilities”. But what are generalizedprobabilities? And how can the new criteria be justified? The workshop’s aim isto investigate whether models of correct reasoning based on a broadlyrepresentational account of conceptual activity allow us to satisfactorilyanswer those questions and whether any promising alternatives exist.
Program
THURSDAY 17 OCTOBER
9.45-9.50 OPENING
9.50-10.35 J. Steeger (Bristol) A pluralist approachto quantum probabilism
10.35-11.20 G. Bacciagaluppi (Utrecht) Probabilism vsepistemicism
11.20-11.30 BREAK
11.30-12.15 R. Schack (London) Quantum dynamicshappensonlyon paper
12.15-13.00 S. Osnaghi (Vienna) A quantum myth of the Given
13.00-15.00 LUNCH BREAK
15.00-15.45 P.Berghofer (Graz) Quantum probabilities are objective degrees of epistemic justification
15.45-16.30 M. Bitbol (Paris) Probabilism as a principle ofscience
16.30-16.45 BREAK
16.45-17.30 F.Del Santo (Geneva) Probabilities as a limited knowledge of potentialities
17.30-18.15 R.Healey (Tucson) Quantum probabilism and the right kind of objectivity
FRIDAY 18 OCTOBER
09.45-10.30 M.Müller (Vienna) Thinking twice inside the box: is Wigner’s friend really about quantumtheory?
10.30-11.15 B.Dakić (Vienna) From classical to quantum: Revisiting Kolmogorovprobability theory for a unified framework
11.15-12.00 Č.Brukner (Vienna) Incompatible probabilities in quantum mechanics with finite resources
12.00-12.30 DISCUSSION
