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14The Logic of Experimental QuestionsPSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1982. 1982.The pair (A, Δ ), where A is a physical quantity (an observable) and Δ a subset of the reals, may be called an 'experimental question'. The set Q of experimental questions is, in classical mechanics, a Boolean algebra, and in quantum mechanics an orthomodular lattice (and also a transitive partial Boolean algebra). The question is raised: can we specify a priori what algebraic structure Q must have in any theory whatsoever? Several proposals suggesting that Q must be a lattice are discussed, and…Read more
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The Structure and Interpretation of Quantum MechanicsTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 54 (4): 735-736. 1992.
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34Symmetry Arguments in Probability KinematicsPSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1984 851-869. 1984.Probability kinematics is the theory of how subjective probabilities change with time, in response to certain constraints . Rules are classified by the imposed constraints for which the rules prescribe a procedure for updating one's opinion. The first is simple conditionalization , and the second Jeffrey conditionalization . It is demonstrated by a symmetry argument that these rules are the unique admissible rules for those constraints, and moreover, that any probability kinematic rule must be e…Read more
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2Bell's Theorem, Ideology, and Structural ExplanationIn James T. Cushing & Ernan McMullin (eds.), Philoophical Consequences of Quantum Theory, University of Notre Dame Press. pp. 195--207. 1989.
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1Review: Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara, Quantum Logic (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 57 (2): 753-754. 1992.
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78Quantum Logic and the Interpretation of Quantum MechanicsPSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1980. 1980.One problem with assessing quantum logic is that there are considerable differences between its practitioners. In particular they offer different versions of the set of sentences which the logic governs. On some accounts the sentences involved describe events, on others they are ascriptions of properties. In this paper a framework is offered within which to discuss different quantum logical interpretations of quantum theory, and then the works of Jauch, Putnam, van Fraassen and Kochen are locate…Read more
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12Models, the Brownian motion, and the disunities of physicsIn John Earman & John D. Norton (eds.), The Cosmos of Science: Essays of Exploration, University of Pittsburgh Press. pp. 325--347. 1997.
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4The Theoretical Practices of Physics: Philosophical EssaysOxford University Press UK. 2009.R.I.G. Hughes presents a series of eight philosophical essays on the theoretical practices of physics. The first two essays examine these practices as they appear in physicists' treatises and journal articles. By treating these publications as texts, Hughes casts the philosopher of science in the role of critic. This premise guides the following six essays which deal with various concerns of philosophy and physics such as laws, disunities, models and representation, computer simulation, explanat…Read more
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16A Philosophical Companion to First-order Logic (edited book)Hackett Publishing. 1993.This volume of recent writings, some previously unpublished, follows the sequence of a typical intermediate or upper-level logic course and allows teachers to enrich their presentations of formal methods and results with readings on corresponding questions in philosophical logic.
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17The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. Jeffrey Bub (review)Philosophy of Science 44 (2): 332-336. 1977.
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63Tolstoy, stanislavski, and the art of actingJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 51 (1): 39-48. 1993.
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45Semantic alternatives in partial Boolean quantum logicJournal of Philosophical Logic 14 (4). 1985.
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13Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara. Quantum logic. Handbook of philosophical logic, Volume III, Alternatives to classical logic, edited by D. Gabbay and F. Guenthner, Synthese library, vol. 166, D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht etc. 1986, pp. 427–469 (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 57 (2): 753-754. 1992.
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5Kant's Analogies and the Structure of Objective TimePacific Philosophical Quarterly 71 (2): 141-163. 1990.
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22The Shaky Game: Einstein, Realism, and the Quantum Theory by Arthur Fine (review)Journal of Philosophy 88 (5): 275-279. 1991.
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18Laws of Nature, Laws of Physics, and the Representational Account of TheoriesProtoSociology 12 113-143. 1998.