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    Jarrett’s Locality Condition and Causal Paradox
    PSA Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1988 (1): 318-325. 1988.
    In this paper, I want to present a family of results that may seem to add up to a new proof of the impossibility of hidden variables. In fact, I very much doubt that that’s really what really emerges, but I think the results are nonetheless interesting because they help to sharpen the discussion of Jon Jarrett’s very useful decompostion theorem, in particular, of the condition he calls locality. Jarrett (1984) and Ballentine and Jarrett (1987) have suggested that the so-called condition of local…Read more
  •  4
    Book Reviews (review)
    with Stephen Read, C. B. Schmitt, Thomas Kesselring, Rolf George, Randall R. Dipert, S. J. Surma, A. Grieder, P. M. Simons, Wolfe Mays, David B. Resnik, N. C. A. Da Costa, J. W. Van Evra, and Richard L. Epstein
    History and Philosophy of Logic 7 (1): 77-117. 1986.
    MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE LOGICSIMON OF FAVERSHAM, Quaestiones super Libro Elenchorum. Text in Latin with introduction and notes in English, edited by Sten Ebbesen, Thomas Izbicki, John Longeway, Francesco del Punta, Eileen Serene and Eleonore Stump. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1984. xiv + 270 pp. $3 1.OO.JACOPO ZABARELLA, De methodis libri quatuor; Liber de regressu. Edited by Cesare Vasoli. Bologna: Editrice CLUEB, 1985. xxxviii+ 193 pp. Lire 57,000.EDITIONSG. W. F. HEGE…Read more
  •  3
    The Case Against Creationism
    Philosophy & Public Policy Quarterly 2 (2): 9. 1982.
  •  36
    On the Plurality of Worlds
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 49 (2): 333-352. 1988.
  •  24
    Is Bananaworld nonlocal?
    Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 72 301-309. 2020.
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    Review Essay: On the Plurality of Worlds (review)
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 49 (2): 333. 1988.
  • Quantum Mechanics, Logic and Reality
    Dissertation, The University of Western Ontario (Canada). 1978.
  •  18
    Rosenberg, Rules and Regularities
    Dialogue 18 (3): 418-420. 1979.
  •  16
    Science, Revolution and Discontinuity (review)
    with Roger Paden and John Krige
    Philosophical Review 94 (1): 120. 1985.
  •  45
    Quantum Logic and Quantum Reconstruction
    Foundations of Physics 45 (10): 1351-1361. 2015.
    Quantum logic understood as a reconstruction program had real successes and genuine limitations. This paper offers a synopsis of both and suggests a way of seeing quantum logic in a larger, still thriving context
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    A loose and separate certainty: Caves, Fuchs and Schack on quantum probability one
    Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 42 (3): 158-166. 2011.
  •  27
    This book concentrates on research done during the last twenty years on the philosophy of quantum mechanics. In particular, the author focuses on three major issues: whether quantum mechanics is an incomplete theory, whether it is non-local, and whether it can be interpreted realistically. Much of the book is concerned with distinguishing various senses in which these questions can be taken, and assessing the bewildering variety of answers philosophers and physicists have given up to now. The bo…Read more
  •  21
    Value-Definiteness and Contextualism: Cut and Paste with Hilbert Space
    PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1992. 1992.
    I begin with an appeal to the GHZ/Mermin state to illustrate the allure of contextualism and value-definiteness. I then point out that standard contextualism, with its special status for non-degenerate operators, faces some embarrassing questions. Further, there is an alternative that apparently does not have the same problems. A modest re-pasting of Hilbert space makes the honors almost even between these two varieties. The paper closes with some reflections on the peculiarities of contextualis…Read more
  •  157
    Quantum logic, realism, and value definiteness
    Philosophy of Science 50 (4): 578-602. 1983.
    One of the most interesting programs in the foundations of quantum mechanics is the realist quantum logic approach associated with Putnam, Bub, Demopoulos and Friedman (and which is the focus of my own research.) I believe that realist quantum logic is our best hope for making sense of quantum mechanics, but I have come to suspect that the usual version may not be the correct one. In this paper, I would like to say why and to propose an alternative
  •  34
    Bub on quantum logic and continuous geometry
    British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 36 (3): 313-325. 1985.
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    Jarrett's Locality Condition and Causal Paradox
    PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1988. 1988.
    Jarrett (1984) and Ballentine and Jarrett (1987) have argued that violations of Jarrett's locality condition are strictly forbidden by the theory of relativity. In Ballentine and Jarrett, this claim is supported by an appeal to the fact that superluminal signalling gives rise to causal paradoxes. In this paper, it is argued that if violations of locality are permitted, certain puzzles indeed arise. The result takes the form of a set of apparent "no go" theorems. However, it is argued that the re…Read more
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    Contextuality and Nonlocality in 'No Signaling' Theories
    Foundations of Physics 39 (7): 690-711. 2009.
    We define a family of ‘no signaling’ bipartite boxes with arbitrary inputs and binary outputs, and with a range of marginal probabilities. The defining correlations are motivated by the Klyachko version of the Kochen-Specker theorem, so we call these boxes Kochen-Specker-Klyachko boxes or, briefly, KS-boxes. The marginals cover a variety of cases, from those that can be simulated classically to the superquantum correlations that saturate the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt inequality, when the KS-box…Read more
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    Review essay
    Synthese 86 (1): 99-122. 1991.
  •  57
    On local realism and commutativity
    Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 38 (4): 863-878. 2007.
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    Correlations, Contextuality and Quantum Logic
    Journal of Philosophical Logic 42 (3): 483-499. 2013.
    Quantum theory is a probabilistic theory that embodies notoriously striking correlations, stronger than any that classical theories allow but not as strong as those of hypothetical ‘super-quantum’ theories. This raises the question ‘Why the quantum?’—whether there is a handful of principles that account for the character of quantum probability. We ask what quantum-logical notions correspond to this investigation. This project isn’t meant to compete with the many beautiful results that informatio…Read more