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The Debate over Scientific RealismIn Aristidis Baltas & Kostas Stergiopoulos (eds.), Philosophy and Sciences in Twentieth Century, Crete University Press. pp. 467-498. 2013.
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Two Comments on the Common Cause Principle in Algebraic Quantum Field TheoryIn Henk W. de Regt (ed.), Epsa Philosophy of Science: Amsterdam 2009, Springer. pp. 387--402. 2009.I present two relatively independent sets of remarks on common causes and the violation of Bell inequalities in algebraic quantum field theory. The first set of remarks concerns the possibility of reconciling Reichenbachian ideas on common causes with quantum field theory in the face of an already known difficulty: the event shown to satisfy statistical relations for being the common cause of two correlated events has been associated with the union, rather than the intersection, of the backward …Read more
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Causal Processes and Locality in Classical and in Quantum PhysicsDissertation, University of Athens & National Technical University of Athems. 2011.In this work we try to study theories of causation based upon causal processes and causal interactions in the context of classical and quantum physics. Our central aim is to find out whether such causal theories are compatible with the world picture suggested by contemporary theories of physics. In the first part, we review, compare and try to place among more general taxonomical schemes, the causal theories by Russell (the causal lines approach), Reichenbach (mark method, probabilistic causalit…Read more
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Causal Processes in C*-Algebraic SettingFoundations of Physics 51 (1): 1-23. 2021.In this paper, we attempt to explicate Salmon’s idea of a causal process, as defined in terms of the mark method, in the context of C*-dynamical systems. We prove two propositions, one establishing mark manifestation infinitely many times along a given interval of the process, and, a second one, which establishes continuous manifestation of mark with the exception of a countable number of isolated points. Furthermore, we discuss how these results can be implemented in the context of the Haag–Ara…Read more
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Tracking down space and time: Tim Maudlin: Philosophy of physics: Space and time. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2012, xiv+183pp, $24.55 HB (review)Metascience 22 (3): 587-590. 2013.
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Anything other than paraphrasing the well-known Heraclitean aphorism would not be more appropriate to portray the crux of the contribution of the three philosophers of the Budapest School, Gábor Hofer-Szabó, Miklós Rédei and Lázló E. Szabó, in the ongoing discussion of the principle of the common cause . Indeed, ‘common causes love to hide’ and for that reason critics and aspirant falsifiers of PCC find correlations which, at a first level of analysis, might lack a common cause explanation. But …Read more
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Explaining Correlations by PartitionsFoundations of Physics 45 (12): 1599-1612. 2015.
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Are Metaphysical Claims Testable?Philosophia 49 (2): 801-818. 2020.To consider metaphysical claims a priori and devoid of empirical content, is a rather commonplace received opinion. This paper attempts an exploration of a contemporary philosophical heresy: it is possible to test metaphysical claims if they play an indispensable role in producing empirical success, i.e. novel predictions. To do so one, firstly, needs to express the metaphysical claims employed in the logico-mathematical language of a scientific theory, i.e. to explicate them. Secondly, one shou…Read more
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Induction, The Problem ofInternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2022.
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Empirical Underdetermination for Physical Theories in C* Algebraic Setting: Comments to an Arageorgis's ArgumentFoundations of Physics 50 (9): 877-892. 2020.In this paper, I reconstruct an argument of Aristidis Arageorgis against empirical underdetermination of the state of a physical system in a C*-algebraic setting and explore its soundness. The argument, aiming against algebraic imperialism, the operationalist attitude which characterized the first steps of Algebraic Quantum Field Theory, is based on two topological properties of the state space: being T1 and being first countable in the weak*-topology. The first property is possessed trivially b…Read more
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On Particle Phenomenology Without Particle Ontology: How Much Local Is Almost Local?Foundations of Physics 43 (8): 969-977. 2013.Recently, Clifton and Halvorson have tried to salvage a particle phenomenology in the absence of particle ontology within algebraic relativistic quantum field theory. Their idea is that the detection of a particle is the measurement of a local observable which simulates the measurement of an almost local observable that annihilates the vacuum. In this note, we argue that the measurements local particle detections are supposed to simulate probe radically holistic aspects of relativistic quantum f…Read more
Chrysovalantis Stergiou
The American College of Greece: Deree
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The American College of Greece: DereeAdjunct Professor (Part-time)
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Physical Science |
Science, Logic, and Mathematics |
General Philosophy of Science |