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    Detlef the Adventurer
    In Angelo Bassi, Sheldon Goldstein, Roderich Tumulka & Nino Zanghì (eds.), Physics and the Nature of Reality: Essays in Memory of Detlef Dürr, Springer. pp. 23-33. 2024.
    Detlef Dürr was a remarkable figure in many different ways. I recall some adventures we had with him in Abu Dhabi.
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    Time-travel and Topology
    PSA Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1990 (1): 303-315. 1990.
    Is time-travel possible? Like most intriguing problems that lie within the shared locus of physics, metaphysics and logic, this question admits of many interpretations, each of which engenders a different line of research. At its most anemic, the issue can be just: Is it possible to tell a story about travel into the past that contains no explicit contradictions? Under the stimulation of physical concerns it may develop into a more challenging problem: Do the laws of physics, as best we understa…Read more
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    Quantum Non‐Locality and Relativity (edited book)
    Tim Maudlin. 2002-01-01.
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    This chapter contains sections titled: The GRW Theory Local Beables for GRW The Flash Ontology Relativistic Flashy GRW The Role of Local Beables The Logical Situation The Methodological Situation.
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    Morals
    In Quantum Non‐Locality and Relativity, Wiley‐blackwell. 2011.
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    This chapter contains sections titled: Galilean Transformations and Galilean Invariants A Brief Preliminary: Why Worry? Lorentz Invariance: Collapse Theories Lorentz Invariance: Hyperplane Dependence Lorentz Invariance: Non‐Collapse Theories Choose Your Poison.
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    This chapter contains sections titled: Non‐Euclidean Geometry The General Theory Superluminal Constraints and the GTR Lorentz Invariance and the GTR Quantum Theories in Non‐Minkowski Space‐times The GTR to the Rescue?
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    Grading, Sorting, and the Sorites
    In Peter A. French & Howard K. Wettstein (eds.), Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Blackwell. 2008.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Sorting without Gaps Sharp Semantic Cutoffs and Higher‐Order Vagueness Judgment Situations References.
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    This chapter contains sections titled: Limits for Uncommunicative Partners How Much Does a Particle Need to Know? Evaluation of Results Simulators Does Nature Simulate?
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    Causation
    In Quantum Non‐Locality and Relativity, Wiley‐blackwell. 2011.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Causation, Counterfactuals, and Laws Two World Pictures The EPR Argument A Note on Wave Collapse But is it Causation? Superluminal Influences and Relativity.
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    This chapter contains sections titled: A Slightly Technical Interlude3 Bell's Theorem Again What Does Factorization Signify? Relativity and Signals Signaling Paradoxes Appendix B: Bohmian Mechanics.
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    This chapter contains sections titled: The State of Play Particles and Relativistic Mass Increase Tachyons.
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    This chapter contains sections titled: Polarization Light Quanta The Entangled State How Do They Do It? Bell's Theorem(s) Aspect's Experiment What Is Weird About the Quantum Connection? Appendix A: The GHZ Scheme.
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    This chapter contains sections titled: Coordinate Systems: Euclidean Space Invariant Quantities Classical Space‐times Special Relativity Consequences of the Lorentz Transformation Lorentz Invariant Quantities.
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    Speculations in High Dimensions
    Analysis 82 (4): 787-798. 2022.
    It is a truth universally acknowledged that quantum mechanics is (somehow or other) screwy. That is, the ‘picture of the world’ presented by quantum mechanics i.
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    The Labyrinth of Quantum Logic
    In Sanjit Chakraborty & James Ferguson Conant (eds.), Engaging Putnam, De Gruyter. pp. 183-206. 2022.
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    The metaphysics of quantum theory
    Belgrade Philosophical Annual 29 5-13. 2016.
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    Metafizyczne implikacje fizyki kwantowej
    with Elżbieta Drozdowska
    Roczniki Filozoficzne 69 (4): 407-439. 2021.
    Przekład na podstawie: Tim Maudlin, „Distilling Metaphysics from Quantum Physics”, w: The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics, red. Michael J. Loux i Dean W. Zimmerman, 461–487 Przełożony tu na język polski tekst „Distilling Metaphysics from Quantum Physics” Tima Maudlina stanowi rozdział z The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics. Autor omawia w nim sześć ważnych zagadnień metafizycznych, na które fizyka kwantowa rzuca nowe światło. Każde z nich naświetla z punktu widzenia trzech podstawowych interpretacj…Read more
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    Can the world be only wavefunction?
    In Simon Saunders, Jonathan Barrett, Adrian Kent & David Wallace (eds.), Many Worlds?: Everett, Quantum Theory, & Reality, Oxford University Press. 2010.
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    Philosophy of Physics: Quantum Theory
    Princeton University Press. 2019.
    A sophisticated and original introduction to the philosophy of quantum mechanics from one of the world’s leading philosophers of physics In this book, Tim Maudlin, one of the world’s leading philosophers of physics, offers a sophisticated, original introduction to the philosophy of quantum mechanics. The briefest, clearest, and most refined account of his influential approach to the subject, the book will be invaluable to all students of philosophy and physics. Quantum mechanics holds a unique p…Read more
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    A Modal Free Lunch
    Foundations of Physics 50 (6): 522-529. 2020.
    The meaning and truth conditions for claims about physical modality and causation have been considered problematic since Hume’s empiricist critique. But the underlying semantic commitments that follow from Hume’s empiricism about ideas have long been abandoned by the philosophical community. Once the consequences of that abandonment are properly appreciated, the problems of physical modality and causal locutions fall away, and can be painlessly solved.
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    On the status of conservation laws in physics: Implications for semiclassical gravity
    with Elias Okon and Daniel Sudarsky
    Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. forthcoming.
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    Time Travel and Modern Physics
    Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 50 169-200. 2002.
    Time travel has been a staple of science fiction. With the advent of general relativity it has been entertained by serious physicists. But, especially in the philosophy literature, there have been arguments that time travel is inherently paradoxical. The most famous paradox is the grandfather paradox: you travel back in time and kill your grandfather, thereby preventing your own existence. To avoid inconsistency some circumstance will have to occur which makes you fail in this attempt to kill yo…Read more
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    Nature's Capacities and Their Measurement
    Journal of Philosophy 90 (11): 599. 1993.
    This book on the philosophy of science argues for an empiricism, opposed to the tradition of David Hume, in which singular rather than general causal claims are primary; causal laws express facts about singular causes whereas the general causal claims of science are ascriptions of capacities or causal powers, capacities to make things happen. Taking science as measurement, Cartwright argues that capacities are necessary for science and that these can be measured, provided suitable conditions are…Read more
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    Robust versus anemic: comments on Objective Becoming
    Philosophical Studies 175 (7): 1807-1814. 2018.
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    A Rate of Passage
    Manuscrito 40 (1): 75-79. 2017.
    ABSTRACT In “Temporal Passage and the ‘No Alternate Possibilities Argument’”, Jonathan Tallant takes up one objection based on the observation that if time passes at the rate of one second per second there is no other possible rate at which it could pass. The argument rests on the premise that if time passes at some rate then it could have passed at some other rate. Since no alternative rate seems to be coherent, one concludes that time cannot pass at all. The obvious weak point of the NAP is th…Read more