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1Martin R. Jones and Nancy Cartwight, eds., Idealization XII: Correcting the Model. Idealization and Abstraction in the Sciences Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 26 (5): 362-364. 2006.
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77Just one damn thing after another: Ari Ben-Menahem: Historical encyclopedia of the natural and mathematical sciences. Dordrecht: Springer, 2009, xxvii+5988pp, €2,245.50 HB (review)Metascience 20 (2): 407-412. 2010.Just one damn thing after another Content Type Journal Article DOI 10.1007/s11016-010-9485-1 Authors Dean Rickles, Unit for History and Philosophy of Science, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia Journal Metascience Online ISSN 1467-9981 Print ISSN 0815-0796
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118Many of the advances in string theory have been generated by the discovery of new duality symmetries connecting what were once thought to be distinct theories, solu- tions, processes, backgrounds, and more. Indeed, duality has played an enormously important role in the creation and development of numerous theories in physics and numerous fields of mathematics. Dualities often lie at those fruitful intersections at which mathematics and physics are especially strongly intertwined. In this paper I…Read more
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27David Clarke and Eric Clarke, eds. , Music and Consciousness: Philosophical, Psychological, and Cultural Perspectives . Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 32 (4): 253-258. 2012.
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41Richard Dawid string theory and the scientific method (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 67 (3): 925-929. 2016.
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106A philosopher looks at string dualitiesStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 42 (1): 54-67. 2011.
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44Introduction to special issue on dualitiesStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 59 1-5. 2017.
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77Public healthIn Fred Gifford (ed.), Philosophy of Medicine, Elsevier. 2010.Public health involves the application of a wide variety of scientific and non-scientific disciplines to the very practical problems of improving population health and preventing disease. Public health has received surprisingly little attention from philosophers of science. In this chapter we consider some neglected but important philosophical aspects of the science of public health.
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17Huw Price and Richard Corry, eds. Causation, Physics, and the Constitution of Reality: Russell's Republic Revisited Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 30 (2): 127-131. 2010.
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93In this paper I examine the connection between symmetry and modality from the perspective of `reduction' methods in geometric mechanics. I begin by setting the problem up as a choice between two opposing views: reduction and non-reduction. I then discern four views on the matter in the literature; they are distinguished by their advocation of distinct geometric spaces as representing `reality'. I come down in favour of non-reductive methods.
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2Book Review (review)Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 41 (2): 160-162. 2010.
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422Quantum gravity meets structuralism: Interweaving relations in the foundations of physicsIn Dean Rickles, Steven French & Juha T. Saatsi (eds.), The Structural Foundations of Quantum Gravity, Oxford University Press. pp. 1--39. 2006.
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2Structure, Objects and Causality, , Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, vol. 77 (edited book)Springer. 2011.
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153Mirror Symmetry and Other Miracles in Superstring TheoryFoundations of Physics 43 (1): 54-80. 2013.The dominance of string theory in the research landscape of quantum gravity physics (despite any direct experimental evidence) can, I think, be justified in a variety of ways. Here I focus on an argument from mathematical fertility, broadly similar to Hilary Putnam’s ‘no miracles argument’ that, I argue, many string theorists in fact espouse in some form or other. String theory has generated many surprising, useful, and well-confirmed mathematical ‘predictions’—here I focus on mirror symmetry an…Read more
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14Julian Savulescu and Nick Bostrom, eds. , Human Enhancement . Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 31 (1): 64-66. 2011.
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