Talk: Valia Allori (Bergamo)
Location: Ludwigstr. 31, ground floor, Room 021.
21.05.2025 at 16:00
Title:
Functionalism, Vagueness, Reduction and the Quantum: The Case of Everettian Mechanics
Abstract:
Valia Allori presents, discusses and critically evaluates Wallace’s account of functional (non-compositional) emergence to explain macroscopic phenomena within Everettian quantum mechanics. In brief, her main argument against this view is that it provides an unsatisfactory explanation, as it employs ‘effective ontologies’ defined in virtue of their usefulness which however do not possess any deeper justification.