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    David Deutsch

    David Deutsch

    contemporaryCritical Rationalism / Philosophy of Physics

    b. 1953

    David Deutsch is a British physicist at the University of Oxford and a pioneer of quantum computation, having formulated the first description of a universal quantum computer. He is also a prominent philosopher of science who champions a realist interpretation of the many-worlds view of quantum mechanics and a Popperian epistemology centered on the growth of explanatory knowledge.

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    Notable Achievements

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    Formulated the theory of the universal quantum computer (Deutsch-Church-Turing principle)

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    Developed the Deutsch and Deutsch-Jozsa quantum algorithms

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    Authored 'The Fabric of Reality' and 'The Beginning of Infinity'

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    Advanced the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics

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    Contributed to constructor theory as a new mode of physical explanation

    Positions & Arguments

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    Modality & Possibility

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    Time travel is implausible and unlikely to exist in our world.

    Causation

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    Time travel is implausible and unlikely to exist in our world.

    Skepticism

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    There is a fundamental tension between treating logical knowledge as a priori and the computational intractability of deciding logical validity.

    Truth & Knowledge

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    There is a fundamental tension between treating logical knowledge as a priori and the computational intractability of deciding logical validity.

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    Critical Rationalism / Philosophy of Physics

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    Modality & Possibility1
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