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Lawrence Sklar

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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
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Philosophy of Mathematics
Philosophy of Physical Science
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  •  76
    Perspectives on Time
    Review 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.
    TimePersonsHealth and Illness
  • Interpreting Theories: The Case of Statistical Mechanics
    In Peter Clark & Katherine Hawley (eds.), Philosophy of science today, Oxford University Press. pp. 276--284. 2003.
  •  71
    David 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.
    Logic and Philosophy of Logic, Miscellaneous
  •  111
    Creating Modern Probability: Its Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy in Historical Perspective
    with Jan von Plato
    Journal of Philosophy 91 (11): 622. 1994.
    Philosophy of Mathematics, Miscellaneous
  •  118
    In the Wake of Chaos: Unpredictable Order in Dynamic Systems. Stephen H. Kellert (review)
    Philosophy of Science 64 (1): 184-185. 1997.
    Science, Logic, and MathematicsChaos
  •  41
    The Genesis and Evolution of Time (review)
    International Studies in Philosophy 18 (3): 61-62. 1986.
  •  102
    Review (review)
    British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 45 (3): 933-934. 1994.
  •  73
    John 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.
    History of ScienceHistory of PhysicsPhilosophy of Physics, Misc
  •  122
    Interpreting theories: the case of statistical mechanics
    British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 51 (4): 729-742. 2000.
    Science, Logic, and MathematicsThermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
  •  235
    Philosophy of statistical mechanics
    Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2008.
    Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
  •  192
    Varieties of explanatory autonomy
    This is the text of a talk given at the Robert and Sarah Boote Conference in Reductionism and Anti-Reductionism in Physics, 22-23 April, 2006, Center for Philosophy of Science University of Pittsburgh.
    Autonomy, Misc
  •  79
    Book Review: The Discovery of Dynamics. By Julian B. Barbour. Oxford University Press, New York, New York, xxiv + 746 pp., $45.00 . ISBN 0-19-513202-5 (review)
    Foundations of Physics 32 (8): 1325-1326. 2002.
  •  23
    Probability and Confirmation
    Routledge. 2000.
    First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
  •  61
    The Reality of Time (review)
    International Studies in Philosophy 22 (3): 127-128. 1990.
    Space and Time
  •  41
    A interdependência entre filosofia e ciência
    Critica -. 2003.
  •  171
    Is probability a dispositional property?
    Journal of Philosophy 67 (11): 355-366. 1970.
    Interpretation of ProbabilityDispositions and Powers
  •  51
    The Language of Nature is Mathematics—But Which Mathematics? And What Nature?: XII
    Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 98 (3): 241-261. 1998.
  •  19
    Foundational Physics and Empiricist Critique
    In C. Wade Savage (ed.), Scientific Theories, University of Minnesota Press. pp. 136--157. 1956.
    Constructive Empiricism
  •  492
    Space, Time, and Spacetime
    University of California Press. 1974.
    In this book, Lawrence Sklar demonstrates the interdependence of science and philosophy by examining a number of crucial problems on the nature of space and ...
    Space and Time
  •  22
    Comments [on Papers by Earman and Malament]
    PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1978. 1978.
    Space and Time
  •  148
    Perceived Worlds, Inferred Worlds, the World
    Journal of Philosophy 81 (11): 693. 1984.
    Possible Worlds
  •  49
    Problemas filosóficos tradicionais sobre o espaço e o tempo
    Critica -. 2006.
    Gilles Deleuze
  •  222
    Up and down, left and right, past and future
    Noûs 15 (2): 111-129. 1981.
    The Open FuturePhysics of Time
  •  13
    The Philosophy of Science: The philosophy of physics
    Routledge. 2000.
    First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
    Bayesian Reasoning, Misc
  •  25
    O debate entre Newton e Leibniz
    Critica -. 2006.
  •  12
    Time, Reality, and Relativity
    In R. Healey (ed.), Reduction, Time, and Relativity, Cambridge University Press. 1981.
    Physics of Time
  •  74
    Idealization and Explanation: A Case Study from Statistical Mechanics
    Midwest Studies in Philosophy 18 (1): 258-270. 1993.
    Thermodynamics and Statistical MechanicsIdealizationModels and Explanation
  •  204
    Incongruous counterparts, intrinsic features and the substantiviality of space
    Journal of Philosophy 71 (9): 277-290. 1974.
    Substantivalism about SpacetimeKant: MetaphysicsKant: Philosophy of Science
  •  347
    The falsifiability of geometric theories
    Journal of Philosophy 64 (8): 247-253. 1967.
    Falsification
  •  48
    Filosofia da física e filosofia em geral
    Critica -. 2006.
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