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34Ontological, epistemological and methodological positionsIn Theo A. F. Kuipers (ed.), General Philosophy of Science, North Holland. pp. 303--376. 2007.
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32Things aren't what they used to be: on the immateriality of matter and the reality of relationsIn C. Cox, J. Jaskey & S. Malik (eds.), Realism Materialism Art, . 2015.
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30Does Physics Answer Metaphysical Questions?Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 61 179-201. 2007.According to logical positivism, so the story goes, metaphysical questions are meaningless, since they do not admit of empirical confirmation or refutation. However, the logical positivists did not in fact reject as meaningless all questions about for example, the structure of space and time. Rather, key figures such as Reichenbach and Schlick believed that scientific theories often presupposed a conceptual framework that was not itself empirically testable, but which was required for the theory…Read more
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29Review of Steven French, dcio Krause, Identity in Physics: A Historical, Philosophical, and Formal Analysis (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2007 (6). 2007.
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29Ontological Epistemological and Methodological PositionsIn Theo Kuipers (ed.), General Philosophy of Science, Elsevier. pp. 303-376. 2007.
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27S cientific S tructuralism: O n the I dentity and D iversity of O bjects in a S tructureAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 81 (1): 23-43. 2007.
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22Physics and Computation:The Statues of Landauer's PrincipleIn S. B. Cooper, B. Löwe & A. Sorbi (eds.), Computation and Logic in the Real World. CiE 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4497, . 2007.Realism about computation is the view that whether or not a particular physical system is performing a particular computation is at least sometimes a mindindependent feature of reality. The caveat ’at least sometimes’ is necessary here because a realist about computation need not believe that all instances of computation should be realistically construed. The computational theory of mind presupposes realism about computation. If whether or not the human nervous system implements particular compu…Read more
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21The Alleged Coupling/Constitution Fallacy and Mature SciencesIn Richard Menary (ed.), The Extended Mind, Bradford Book. 2010.
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21Commentary: Reply to Hawthorne: Physics before Metaphysics 1In Simon Saunders, Jonathan Barrett, Adrian Kent & David Wallace (eds.), Many Worlds?: Everett, Quantum Theory, and Reality, Oxford University Press. 2010.The metaphysical conception of the generation of the macroworld from fundamental physics that Hawthorne considers is criticized in this Commentary, and compared with the scientific account offered by Halliwell and Hartle. It is argued that Hawthorn's critique of Everettian quantum mechanics fails.
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20Road to reality with Roger Penrose (edited book)Copernicus Center Press. 2015.Where does the road to reality lie? This fundamental question is addressed in this collection of essays by physicists and philosophers, inspired by the original ideas of Sir Roger Penrose, the English mathematical physicist and philosopher of science. The topics range from black holes and quantum information to the very nature of mathematical cognition itself. *** Librarians: ebook available on ProQuest and EBSCO [Subject: Philosophy, Physics, Mathematics, Cosmology]
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20Correction to: How Quantum is Quantum Counterfactual Communication?Foundations of Physics 51 (2): 1-3. 2021.A correction to this paper has been published: doi:10.1007/s10701-021-00450-z
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19The Epistemology of Constructive EmpiricismIn Bradley John Monton (ed.), Images of empiricism: essays on science and stances, with a reply from Bas C. van Fraassen, Oxford University Press. 2007.
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18The connection between logical and thermodynamic irreversibilityStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 38 (1): 58-79. 2006.There has recently been a good deal of controversy about Landauer's Principle, which is often stated as follows: The erasure of one bit of information in a computational device is necessarily accompanied by a generation of kTln2 heat. This is often generalised to the claim that any logically irreversible operation cannot be implemented in a thermodynamically reversible way. John Norton and Owen Maroney both argue that Landauer's Principle has not been shown to hold in general, and Maroney offers…Read more
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16Does Homotopy Type Theory Provide a Foundation for Mathematics?British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 69 (2): 377-420. 2018.Homotopy Type Theory (HoTT) is a putative new foundation for mathematics grounded in constructive intensional type theory that offers an alternative to the foundations provided by ZFC set theory and category theory. This article explains and motivates an account of how to define, justify, and think about HoTT in a way that is self-contained, and argues that, so construed, it is a candidate for being an autonomous foundation for mathematics. We first consider various questions that a foundation f…Read more
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14The epistemology of constructive empiricismIn Bradley John Monton (ed.), Images of empiricism: essays on science and stances, with a reply from Bas C. van Fraassen, Oxford University Press. 2007.
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14Free Inquiry:The Haldane Principle and the Significance of Scientific ResearchSocial Epistemology 2 (7). 2013.[no abstract]
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12What has Philosophy Ever Done for Us?In Russell Blackford & Damien Broderick (eds.), Philosophy's Future, Wiley. 2017-04-27.This chapter comments on the past and future of the relationship between science and philosophy, and argues that philosophy and science need each other as much as ever. The particular threat to philosophy of the impact agenda is explained. Various predictions are offered as to how we can expect philosophy to evolve.
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8How HEFCE and the Research Councils are Undermining Science and the National InterestScience in Parliament 68. 2011.
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7Weak Physicalism and Special Science OntologyIn Alexander Hieke & Hannes Leitgeb (eds.), Reduction, abstraction, analysis: proceedings of the 31th International Ludwig Wittgenstein-Symposium in Kirchberg, 2008, De Gruyter. pp. 113-126. 2009.
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