Jeffrey A. Barrett is Chancellor's Professor in Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of California, Irvine, where he specializes in philosophy of physics.
Education and career[edit]
He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy at Columbia University.[1]
In 2022, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.[2]
Philosophical work[edit]
Barrett is known for his work on the measurement problem of quantum mechanics (why and how quantum systems collapse when one measures them), and particularly on the many-worlds interpretation of Hugh Everett.
His book The Quantum Mechanics of Minds and Worlds (Oxford University Press, 2000) concerns this problem and its solutions,[3] and his book with Peter Byrne, The Everett Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: Collected Works 1955-1980 with Commentary (Princeton University Press, 2012) collects the works of Everett himself on this problem.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ "Jeffrey Barrett".
- ^ "New Members".
- ^ Reviews of The Quantum Mechanics of Minds and Worlds:
- Arageorgis, Aristidis (June 2001), The Review of Metaphysics, 54 (4): 904–905, JSTOR 20131625
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Becker, Lon (July 2001), The Philosophical Review, 110 (3): 482–484, doi:10.2307/2693670, JSTOR 2693670
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Saunders, S. (October 2001), Mind, 110 (440): 1039–1043, doi:10.1093/mind/110.440.1039
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Myrvold, Wayne (September 2002), Philosophy of Science, 69 (3): 536–538, doi:10.1086/342458, S2CID 125572230
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- Arageorgis, Aristidis (June 2001), The Review of Metaphysics, 54 (4): 904–905, JSTOR 20131625
- ^ Reviews of Everett Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. Collected Works:
- Bacciagaluppi, Guido (September 2013), HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, 3 (2): 348–352, doi:10.1086/671743
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Sauer, Tilman (November 2013), The British Journal for the History of Science, 46 (4): 731–732, doi:10.1017/s0007087413000812, S2CID 147400840
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Lehner, Christoph (March 2015), Isis, 106 (1): 220–221, doi:10.1086/681886
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Richmond, Sheldon (2015), "Review", Philosophy in Review, 35 (3)
- Bacciagaluppi, Guido (September 2013), HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, 3 (2): 348–352, doi:10.1086/671743
External links[edit]
- Jeffrey A. Barrett's UC Irvine web page
- Jeffrey A. Barrett's preprints Archived 2019-06-15 at the Wayback Machine
- Everett's Relative-State Formulation of Quantum Mechanics - Barrett's article on Hugh Everett III's formulation of quantum mechanics in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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