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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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151The 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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121I—Tim Maudlin: Time, Topology and Physical GeometryAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 84 (1): 63-78. 2010.
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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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240The 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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653Buckets 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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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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12Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity: Metaphysical Implications of Modern PhysicsPhilosophy of Science 64 (3): 515. 1997.
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263What 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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134New 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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93Geometric 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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837The 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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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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79Review of Patrick Greenough (ed.), Michael P. Lynch (ed.), Truth and Realism (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2007 (6). 2007.
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215Philosophy 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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76The unbuttoned empiricist: Van Fraassen speculates about the quantum world (review)Philosophical Books 35 (2): 94-101. 1994.
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114Kuhn édenté: incommensurabilité et choix entre théories (translated by Michel Ghins)Revue Philosophique De Louvain 94 (3): 428-446. 1996.
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Distilling Metaphysics from Quantum MechanicsIn Michael J. Loux & Dean W. Zimmerman (eds.), The Oxford handbook of metaphysics, Oxford University Press. 2003.
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55The irrelevance of incommensurability: Reflections on Torretti's creative understandingStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 25 (6): 1005-1012. 1994.
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182Between The Motion And The Act... A Review of Shadows of the Mind by Roger Penros (review)PSYCHE: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Research On Consciousness 2 40-51. 1995.
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398Substances and space-time: What Aristotle would have said to EinsteinStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 21 (4): 531-561. 1990.
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2Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity: Aristotelian Society SeriesBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 45 (3): 933-934. 1994.
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515XIV-Remarks on the Passing of TimeProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 102 (3): 237-252. 2002.This essay is the first act of a two-act play. My ultimate aim is to defend a simple proposition: time passes. To be more precise, I want to defend the claim that the passage of time is an intrinsic asymmetry in the structure of space-time itself, an asymmetry that has no spatial counterpart and is metaphysically independent of the material contents of space-time. It is independent, for example, of the entropy gradient of the universe. This view is part of common-sense, but has been widely attac…Read more
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290On the impossibility of David Lewis' modal realismAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 74 (4). 1996.This Article does not have an abstract
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159Grading, sorting, and the soritesMidwest Studies in Philosophy 32 (1): 141-168. 2008.No Abstract
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