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1Richard Johns, A Theory of Physical Probability Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 24 (1): 34-36. 2004.
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78How to Fix Directions Or Are Assignments of Vector Characteristics Attributions of Intrinsic Properties?Dialectica 63 (4): 503-524. 2009.In physics, objects are often assigned vector characteristics such as a specific velocity. How can this be understood from a metaphysical point of view – is assigning an object a vector characteristic to attribute it an intrinsic property? As a short review of Newtonian, special relativistic and general relativistic physics shows, if we wish to assign some object a vector characteristic, we have to relate it to something – call it S. If S is to be different from the original object – and I argue…Read more
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171Are We Sims? How Computer Simulations Represent and What this Means for the Simulation ArgumentThe Monist 97 (3): 399-417. 2014.N. Bostrom’s simulation argument and two additional assumptions imply that we likely live in a computer simulation. The argument is based upon the following assumption about the workings of realistic brain simulations: The hardware of a computer on which a brain simulation is run bears a close analogy to the brain itself. To inquire whether this is so, I analyze how computer simulations trace processes in their targets. I describe simulations as fictional, mathematical, pictorial, and material m…Read more
Ludwig Maximilians Universität, München
Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Study of Religion
PhD, 2004
Bern, Bern, Switzerland
PhilPapers Editorships
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