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24Physical Theory: Method and Interpretation (edited book)Oup Usa. 2014.In nine new essays, distinguished philosophers of science discuss outstanding issues in scientific methodology --especially that of the physical sciences-and address philosophical questions that arise in the exploration of the foundations of contemporary science.
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81This 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.
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30Philosophy and the Foundations of DynamicsCambridge University Press. 2012.Although now replaced by more modern theories, classical mechanics remains a core foundational element of physical theory. From its inception, the theory of dynamics has been riddled with conceptual issues and differing philosophical interpretations and throughout its long historical development, it has shown subtle conceptual refinement. The interpretive program for the theory has also shown deep evolutionary change over time. Lawrence Sklar discusses crucial issues in the central theory from w…Read more
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1The Philosophy of Science: The philosophy of physicsRoutledge. 2000.First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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33Tim Maudlin, Philosophy of Physics: Space and Time. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press , xiv+183 pp., $29.95 (review)Philosophy of Science 81 (2): 288-292. 2014.
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6Probability and ConfirmationRoutledge. 2000.First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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40Paul Valéry1 Valéry’s “Variation sur Descartes” excellently evokes the vanishing act that has haunted philosophy ever since Darwin overturned the Cartesian tradition. If my body is composed of nothing but a team of a few trillion robotic cells, mindlessly interacting to produce all the large-scale patterns that tradition would attribute to the nonmechanical workings of my mind, there seems to be nothing left over to be me. Lurking in Darwin’s shadow there is a bugbear: the incredible Disappearin…Read more
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55What Is an Isolated System?The Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 10 51-57. 2001.In this paper, I want to focus attention on ways in which the role of idealization in science has been rather neglected by standard methodology, and suggest that this distinct role for idealization is the truly important role it plays in science. Further, I suggest that there are a number of important cases in theoretical science where the issue of idealization is not the issue of misrepresentation in some sense. Rather, the question is which of several alternative idealizations correctly repres…Read more
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