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Quantum objects are vague objectsSorites 6 (1): 21--33. 1996.Is there vagueness in the world? This is the central question that we are concerned with. Focusing on identity statements around which much of the recent debate has centred, we argue that `vague identity' arises in quantum mechanics in one of two ways. First, quantum particles may be described as individuals, with `entangled' states understood in terms of non-supervenient relations. In this case, the vagueness is ontic but exists at the level of these relations which act as a kind of `veil'. Sec…Read more
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Review Articles-The Phenomenological Approach to PhysicsStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 30 (2): 267-282. 1999.
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The structure of theoriesIn Martin Curd & Stathis Psillos (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science, Routledge. pp. 269--280. 2008.
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Putting a new spin on particle identityIn R. Hilborn & G. Tino (eds.), Spin Statistics Connection and Commutation Relations, . pp. 305-318. 2000.
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Modality and scientific structuralismIn Otávio Bueno & Scott A. Shalkowski (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Modality, Routledge. 2018.
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Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
Science, Logic, and Mathematics |