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121I—Tim Maudlin: Time, Topology and Physical GeometryAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 84 (1): 63-78. 2010.
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114Time Travel and Modern PhysicsRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 50 169-200. 2002.Time travel has been a staple of science fiction. With the advent of general relativity it has been entertained by serious physicists. But, especially in the philosophy literature, there have been arguments that time travel is inherently paradoxical. The most famous paradox is the grandfather paradox: you travel back in time and kill your grandfather, thereby preventing your own existence. To avoid inconsistency some circumstance will have to occur which makes you fail in this attempt to kill yo…Read more
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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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109Nature's Capacities and Their MeasurementJournal of Philosophy 90 (11): 599. 1993.This book on the philosophy of science argues for an empiricism, opposed to the tradition of David Hume, in which singular rather than general causal claims are primary; causal laws express facts about singular causes whereas the general causal claims of science are ascriptions of capacities or causal powers, capacities to make things happen. Taking science as measurement, Cartwright argues that capacities are necessary for science and that these can be measured, provided suitable conditions are…Read more
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109The Labyrinth of Quantum LogicIn Sanjit Chakraborty & James Ferguson Conant (eds.), Engaging Putnam, De Gruyter. pp. 183-206. 2022.
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108Descrying 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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98A Rate of PassageManuscrito 40 (1): 75-79. 2017.ABSTRACT In “Temporal Passage and the ‘No Alternate Possibilities Argument’”, Jonathan Tallant takes up one objection based on the observation that if time passes at the rate of one second per second there is no other possible rate at which it could pass. The argument rests on the premise that if time passes at some rate then it could have passed at some other rate. Since no alternative rate seems to be coherent, one concludes that time cannot pass at all. The obvious weak point of the NAP is th…Read more
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98On the status of conservation laws in physics: Implications for semiclassical gravityStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. forthcoming.
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97Three roads to objective probability1In Claus Beisbart & Stephan Hartmann (eds.), Probabilities in Physics, Oxford University Press. pp. 293. 2011.
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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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92Précis of Truth and Paradox (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 73 (3): 696-704. 2007.Truth and Paradox largely consists of three connected technical projects together with a more general account of the nature of truth. The first project is the most familiar: providing an account of how logically complex sentences get assigned truth values on the basis of the truth values assigned to the logically atomic sentences. The second is construction of valid, syntactically specifiable inference rules for a language that includes the familiar logical connectives and the truth predicate. T…Read more
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83Physics meets philosophy at the planck scale: contemporary theories in quantum gravityStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 35 (3): 531-537. 2004.
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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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76L. A. Paul and Ned Hall, Causation: A User’s Guide. Oxford: Oxford University Press , 259 pp., $35.00 (review)Philosophy of Science 82 (1): 149-152. 2015.
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76A Combinatorial Theory of Possibility. D. M. Armstrong (review)Philosophy of Science 59 (4): 716-718. 1992.
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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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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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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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52Prosentence, 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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30Detlef the AdventurerIn Angelo Bassi, Sheldon Goldstein, Roderich Tumulka & Nino Zanghi (eds.), Physics and the Nature of Reality: Essays in Memory of Detlef Dürr, Springer. pp. 23-33. 2024.Detlef Dürr was a remarkable figure in many different ways. I recall some adventures we had with him in Abu Dhabi.
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21Can the world be only wavefunction?In Simon Saunders, Jonathan Barrett, Adrian Kent & David Wallace (eds.), Many Worlds?: Everett, Quantum Theory & Reality, Oxford University Press. 2010.
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21Précis of Truth and ParadoxPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 73 (3): 696-704. 2007.Truth and Paradox largely consists of three connected technical projects together with a more general account of the nature of truth. The first project is the most familiar: providing an account of how logically complex sentences get assigned truth values on the basis of the truth values assigned to the logically atomic sentences. The second is construction of valid, syntactically specifiable inference rules for a language that includes the familiar logical connectives and the truth predicate. T…Read more
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15CausationIn Quantum Non‐Locality and Relativity, Tim Maudlin. 2002-01-01.This chapter contains sections titled: Causation, Counterfactuals, and Laws Two World Pictures The EPR Argument A Note on Wave Collapse But is it Causation? Superluminal Influences and Relativity.
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14Bell's Theorem: The Price of LocalityIn Quantum Non‐Locality and Relativity, Tim Maudlin. 2002-01-01.This chapter contains sections titled: Polarization Light Quanta The Entangled State How Do They Do It? Bell's Theorem(s) Aspect's Experiment What Is Weird About the Quantum Connection? Appendix A: The GHZ Scheme.
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14Metafizyczne implikacje fizyki kwantowejRoczniki Filozoficzne 69 (4): 407-439. 2021.Przekład na podstawie: Tim Maudlin, „Distilling Metaphysics from Quantum Physics”, w: The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics, red. Michael J. Loux i Dean W. Zimmerman, 461–487 Przełożony tu na język polski tekst „Distilling Metaphysics from Quantum Physics” Tima Maudlina stanowi rozdział z The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics. Autor omawia w nim sześć ważnych zagadnień metafizycznych, na które fizyka kwantowa rzuca nowe światło. Każde z nich naświetla z punktu widzenia trzech podstawowych interpretacj…Read more
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