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Simon Saunders

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Space-Time and Probability

Special relativity is most naturally formulated as a theory of space-time geometry, but within the space-time framework probability apears to be at best an epistemic notion - a matter of what can be known, not of the status of events in themselves. However, a non-epistemic account of probability can be given in Minkowski space-time, in terms of the Everett interpretation. We work throughout in the consistent histories formalism, first in tems of a single history, and then using many

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Time, Quantum Mechanics, and Probability

A "geometric" intepretation of probability is proposed, modelled on the treatment of tense in 4-dimensional spacetime. It is applied to Everett's approach to quantum mechanics, as formulated in terms of consistent histories. Standard objections to Everett's approach, based on the difficulties of interpreting probability in its terms, are considered in detail, but found to be wanting.

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