The Role of Decoherence in Quantum Mechanics

Abstract

Major revision of the previous article published on the same website: 'The Role of Decoherence in Quantum Mechanics', in E. N. Zalta (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2003 Edition), http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2003/entries/qm-decoherence/ [under the editorial responsibility of J. Norton] (25pp.).