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76Perspectives on TimeReview of Metaphysics 53 (2): 443-443. 1999.This volume contains eighteen papers on various aspects of the philosophy of time. The contributions are supplemented by an editors’ introduction that outlines the history and nature of the problem areas dealt with in the contributed papers, and, in addition, provides capsule summaries of the contents of the contributed items.
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Interpreting Theories: The Case of Statistical MechanicsIn Peter Clark & Katherine Hawley (eds.), Philosophy of science today, Oxford University Press. pp. 276--284. 2003.
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70David Pearce. Roads to commensurability. Synthese library, vol. 187. D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht etc. 1987, xi + 253 pp (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 56 (1): 355-356. 1991.
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111Creating Modern Probability: Its Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy in Historical PerspectiveJournal of Philosophy 91 (11): 622. 1994.
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118In the Wake of Chaos: Unpredictable Order in Dynamic Systems. Stephen H. Kellert (review)Philosophy of Science 64 (1): 184-185. 1997.
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41The Genesis and Evolution of Time (review)International Studies in Philosophy 18 (3): 61-62. 1986.
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73John Blackmore, Ludwig Boltzmann: His later life and philosophy, 1900–1906 book one: A documentary history. Book two: The philosopher. Dordrecht, kluwer academic publishers, 1995, cloth bk1 $89.50, bk2 $130.00 630632 (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 47 (4): 630-632. 1996.
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122Interpreting theories: the case of statistical mechanicsBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 51 (4): 729-742. 2000.
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83Comments on H. Field’s “Can We Dispense with Space-Time?‘PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1984. 1984.
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138Philosophy and Spacetime PhysicsUniversity of California Press. 1987.Twelve essays explore the philosophy of science in general and the physical sciences in particular A common theme unites all twelve essays: In discussing the ...
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412Types of inter-theoretic reductionBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 18 (2): 109-124. 1967.
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101In the wake of chaos: Unpredictable order in dynamical systemsPhilosophy of Science 64 (1): 181. 1997.
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30K.G. Denbigh And J.S. Denbigh, Entropy In Relation To Incomplete Knowledge (review)Philosophy in Review 7 54-55. 1987.
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78The Concept of Physical Law by Norman Swartz (review)Journal of Philosophy 87 (8): 432-435. 1990.
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103Gerard Emch and Chuang Liu, The Logic of Thermo-Statistical Physics (review)Metascience 12 (1): 59-62. 2003.Peer Reviewed.
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108Book Review: The Philosophy of Physics. By Roberto Torretti. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 1999, xvi + 512 pp., $23.95 (review)Foundations of Physics 31 (5): 867-868. 2001.
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87Physics, Metaphysics, and Method in Newton's DynamicsIn Richard M. Gale (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics, Wiley-blackwell. 2007.This chapter contains sections titled: The Metaphysics of Space, Time, and Motion Issues Concerning Explanation Newton's “Rules of Reasoning in Philosophy”
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380The reduction(?) Of thermodynamics to statistical mechanicsPhilosophical Studies 95 (1-2). 1999.Peer Reviewed.
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Physics and ChanceBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 46 (1): 145-149. 1995.Statistical mechanics is one of the crucial fundamental theories of physics, and in his new book Lawrence Sklar, one of the pre-eminent philosophers of physics, offers a comprehensive, non-technical introduction to that theory and to attempts to understand its foundational elements. Among the topics treated in detail are: probability and statistical explanation, the basic issues in both equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, the role of cosmology, the reduction of thermodynamics …Read more
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162The language of nature is mathematics—but which mathematics? And what nature?Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 98 (3). 1998.In theoretical physics the physical states of systems are represented by components of mathematical structures. This paper explores three ways in which the representation of states by mathematics can give rise to foundational problems, sometimes on the side of the mathematics and sometimes on the side of understanding what the physical states are that the mathematics represents, that is on the side of interpreting the theory. Examples are given from classical mechanics, quantum mechanics and sta…Read more
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181I’d Love to Be a Naturalist—if Only I Knew What Naturalism WasPhilosophy of Science 77 (5): 1121-1137. 2010.Naturalists tell us to rely on what science tells about the world and to eschew aprioristic philosophy. But foundational physics relies internally on modes of thinking that can only be called philosophical, and philosophical arguments rely upon what can only be called scientific inference. So what, then, could the naturalistic thesis really amount to?
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Areas of Interest
| Philosophy of Mathematics |
| Philosophy of Physical Science |