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62Bell's Inequality, Information Transmission, and Prism ModelsPSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1992. 1992.Violations of Bell's Inequality can only be reliably produced if some information about the apparatus setting on one wing is available on the other, requiring superluminal information transmission. In this paper I inquire into the minimum amount of information needed to generate quantum statistics for correlated photons. Reflection on informational constraints clarifies the significance of Fine's Prism models, and allows the construction of several models more powerful than Fine's. These models …Read more
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6Review of Lawrence Sklar: Physics and Chance: Philosophical Issues in the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 46 (1): 145-149. 1995.
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369Why Bohm's theory solves the measurement problemPhilosophy of Science 62 (3): 479-483. 1995.Abraham Stone recently has published an argument purporting to show that David Bohm's interpretation of quantum mechanics fails to solve the measurement problem. Stone's analysis is not correct, as he has failed to take account of the conditions under which the theorems he cites are proven. An explicit presentation of a Bohmian measurement illustrates the flaw in his reasoning
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105Descrying the World in the Wave FunctionThe Monist 80 (1): 3-23. 1997.This essay is born of a misunderstanding. When Barry Loewer mentioned to me that he might be interested in an essay on David Bohm’s version or interpretation of quantum theory, he happened also to mention the work of Wilfrid Sellars, which coincidentally was on his mind. I mistakenly understood that what was wanted was an essay connecting Bohm and Sellars. This directed my thoughts down pathways they would not otherwise have taken, and sent me back to some works of Sellars which had lain neglect…Read more
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603Three measurement problemsTopoi 14 (1): 7-15. 1995.The aim of this essay is to distinguish and analyze several difficulties confronting attempts to reconcile the fundamental quantum mechanical dynamics with Born''s rule. It is shown that many of the proposed accounts of measurement fail at least one of the problems. In particular, only collapse theories and hidden variables theories have a chance of succeeding, and, of the latter, the modal interpretations fail. Any real solution demands new physics.
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49Prosentence, Revision, Truth, and ParadoxPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 73 (3): 705-712. 2007.Consider the sentence 'This sentence is not true'. It seems that the sentence can be neither true nor not true, on pain of contradiction. Certain notorious paradoxes like this have bedevilled philosophical theories of truth. Tim Maudlin presents an original account of logic and semantics which deals with these paradoxes, and allows him to set out a new theory of truth-values and the norms governing claims about truth. All philosophers interested in logic and language will find Truth and Paradox …Read more
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4Causation, Counterfactuals, and the Third FactorIn J. Collins, E. J. Hall & L. A. Paul (eds.), Causation and Counterfactuals, Mit Press. 2004.
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1What’s the deal with the really, really, weird-acting stuff that everything is made of? Can we ever take in our everyday world the same way again if we fully understand the nature of the quantum world? With Jeffrey Bub , Tim Maudlin , and Drew Arrowood
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12Part and whole in quantum mechanicsIn Elena Castellani (ed.), Interpreting Bodies, Princeton University Press. pp. 46--60. 1998.
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119I—Tim Maudlin: Time, Topology and Physical GeometryAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 84 (1): 63-78. 2010.
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147The Universal and the Local in Quantum TheoryTopoi 34 (2): 349-358. 2015.Any empirical physical theory must have implications for observable events at the scale of everyday life, even though that scale plays no special role in the basic ontology of the theory itself. The fundamental physical scales are microscopic for the “local beables” of the theory and universal scale for the non-local beables. This situation creates strong demands for any precise quantum theory. This paper examines those constraints, and illustrates some ways in which they can be met
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2Distilling metaphysics from quantum physicsIn Michael J. Loux & Dean W. Zimmerman (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics, Oxford University Press. pp. 461-487. 2003.
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234The Essence of Space-TimePSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1988. 1988.I argue that Norton & Earman's hole argument, despite its historical association with General Relativity, turns upon very general features of any linguistic system that can represent substances by names. After exploring various means by which mathematical objects can be interpreted as representing physical possibilities, I suggest that a form of essentialism can solve the hole dilemma without abandoning either determinism or substantivalism. Finally, I identify the basic tenets of such an essent…Read more
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2Space, absolute, and relationalIn Robin Le Poidevin, Simons Peter, McGonigal Andrew & Ross P. Cameron (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics, Routledge. 2009.
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643Buckets of water and waves of space: Why spacetime is probably a substancePhilosophy of Science 60 (2): 183-203. 1993.This paper sketches a taxonomy of forms of substantivalism and relationism concerning space and time, and of the traditional arguments for these positions. Several natural sorts of relationism are able to account for Newton's bucket experiment. Conversely, appropriately constructed substantivalism can survive Leibniz's critique, a fact which has been obscured by the conflation of two of Leibniz's arguments. The form of relationism appropriate to the Special Theory of Relativity is also able to e…Read more
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12Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity: Metaphysical Implications of Modern PhysicsPhilosophy of Science 64 (3): 515. 1997.
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132New Foundations for Physical Geometry: The Theory of Linear StructuresOxford University Press. 2014.Tim Maudlin sets out a completely new method for describing the geometrical structure of spaces, and thus a better mathematical tool for describing and understanding space-time. He presents a historical review of the development of geometry and topology, and then his original Theory of Linear Structures
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260What could be objective about probabilities?Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 38 (2): 275-291. 2007.
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92Geometric Possibility by Gordon Belot (review)Journal of Philosophy 110 (9): 518-522. 2013.Review article to Gordon Belot's Geometric Possibility
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831The metaphysics within physicsOxford University Press. 2007.A modest proposal concerning laws, counterfactuals, and explanations - - Why be Humean? -- Suggestions from physics for deep metaphysics -- On the passing of time -- Causation, counterfactuals, and the third factor -- The whole ball of wax -- Epilogue : a remark on the method of metaphysics.
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79Review of Patrick Greenough (ed.), Michael P. Lynch (ed.), Truth and Realism (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2007 (6). 2007.
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1The Philosophical Implications of Quantum Mechanics: DvdMilk Bottle ProductionsWhat’s the deal with the really, really, weird-acting stuff that everything is made of? Can we ever take in our everyday world the same way again if we fully understand the nature of the quantum world? With Jeffrey Bub, Tim Maudlin, and Drew Arrowood.
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210Philosophy of Physics: Space and TimePrinceton University Press. 2012.This concise book introduces nonphysicists to the core philosophical issues surrounding the nature and structure of space and time, and is also an ideal resource for physicists interested in the conceptual foundations of space-time theory. Tim Maudlin's broad historical overview examines Aristotelian and Newtonian accounts of space and time, and traces how Galileo's conceptions of relativity and space-time led to Einstein's special and general theories of relativity. Maudlin explains special rel…Read more
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112Kuhn édenté: incommensurabilité et choix entre théories (translated by Michel Ghins)Revue Philosophique De Louvain 94 (3): 428-446. 1996.
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76The unbuttoned empiricist: Van Fraassen speculates about the quantum world (review)Philosophical Books 35 (2): 94-101. 1994.
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