Erkenntnis:1-23 (2021)
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The paper investigates the type of realism that best suits the framework of decoherence taken at face value without postulating a plurality of worlds, or additional hidden variables, or non-unitary dynamical mechanisms. It is argued that this reading of decoherence leads to an extremely radical type of perspectival realism, especially when cosmological decoherence is considered.
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| Keywords | Quantum mechanics Decoherence Scientific realism Reduced density matrix Perspectival realism Participatory realism Quantum cosmology Mereological anti-realism |
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| DOI | 10.1007/s10670-021-00469-8 |
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