Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1161787 Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 2007 23 Pages PDF
Abstract

I outline an argument for a subjective Bayesian interpretation of quantum probabilities as degrees of belief distributed subject to consistency constraints on a quantum rather than a classical event space. I show that the projection postulate of quantum mechanics can be understood as a noncommutative generalization of the classical Bayesian rule for updating an initial probability distribution on new information, and I contrast the Bayesian interpretation of quantum probabilities sketched here with an alternative approach defended by Chris Fuchs.

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