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	DOI:10.1098/rsta.2011.0497

Corpus ID: 12448034Decoherence: the view from the history and philosophy of science
@article{Hagar2012DecoherenceTV,
  title={Decoherence: the view from the history and philosophy of science},
  author={A. Hagar},
  journal={Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences},
  year={2012},
  volume={370},
  pages={4594 - 4609}
}
	A. Hagar
	Published 2012
	Physics, Medicine
	Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

We present a brief history of decoherence, from its roots in the foundations of classical statistical mechanics, to the current spin bath models in condensed matter physics. We then analyse the philosophical importance of decoherence in three different foundational problems, and find that its role in their solutions is less than that commonly believed. What makes decoherence more philosophically interesting, we argue, are the methodological issues it draws attention to, and the question of the… Expand

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