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Katharine Everett Gilbert (1886–1952) was an American philosopher who specialized in aesthetics and the philosophy of art. She was a founding trustee of the American Society for Aesthetics as well as its first woman president. Gilbert was also one of the first women to be president of a division of the American Philosophical Association. [1]
John Archibald Wheeler. Hugh Everett III ( / ˈɛvərɪt /; November 11, 1930 – July 19, 1982) was an American physicist who, in his 1957 PhD thesis, proposed what is now known as the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum mechanics . In danger of losing his draft deferment, Everett took a research job with the Pentagon the year before ...
Katherine Everett was born Kathleen Olive Herbert in 1872 in Cahernane House, County Kerry. Her father was Henry Herbert of the Muckross estate. Everett had a difficult and unhappy relationship with her mother, leading her to leave home as a teenager living with relatives or others as a companion. She attended the Slade Art School, where she ...
The quantum-mechanical "Schrödinger's cat" paradox according to the many-worlds interpretation.In this interpretation, every quantum event is a branch point; the cat is both alive and dead, even before the box is opened, but the "alive" and "dead" cats are in different branches of the multiverse, both of which are equally real, but which do not interact with each other.
Occupation. Philosopher, writer. Parent (s) Joseph Hale Abbot. Francis Ellingwood Abbot (November 6, 1836 – October 23, 1903) [1] was an American philosopher [2] and theologian who sought to reconstruct theology in accordance with the scientific method. [3] His lifelong romance with his wife, Katharine Fearing Loring, forms the subject of If ...
Quantum suicide and immortality. Quantum suicide is a thought experiment in quantum mechanics and the philosophy of physics. Purportedly, it can falsify any interpretation of quantum mechanics other than the Everett many-worlds interpretation by means of a variation of the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment, from the cat's point of view.
In the philosophy of space and time, eternalism [1] is an approach to the ontological nature of time, which takes the view that all existence in time is equally real, as opposed to presentism or the growing block universe theory of time, in which at least the future is not the same as any other time. [2] Some forms of eternalism give time a ...
Albert Camus ( / kæmˈuː / [2] kam-OO; French: [albɛʁ kamy] ⓘ; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, [3] and political activist. He was the recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history.