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Matter or geometry as fundamental in relativity theory:How not to teach special relativity
relativity spacetime ontology constructivism
2016/6/13
In this paper, I review a number of interpretational frameworks for relativistic phenomena like length contraction and relativity of simultaneity. Of central focus is the book Physical Relativity by H...
The GRW flash theory:a relativistic quantum ontology of matter in space-time?
Bell’s theorem Bohmian mechanics collapse of the wave-function dispositionalism GRW flash GRW mass density Humeanism Lorentz-invariance primitive ontology propensities relativistic collapse theory
2016/6/13
John Bell proposed an ontology for the GRW modification of quantum mechanics in terms of flashes occurring at space-time points. The paper spells out the motivation for this ontology, enquires into th...
Newton and Spinoza:On Motion and Matter(and God,of Course)
Newton, Spinoza Clarke More Maclaurin Matter Motion
2016/5/31
This study explores several arguments against BENEDICTUS DE Spinoza Spinoza’s philosophy that were developed by Henry More, Samuel Clarke, and Colin Maclaurin. In the arguments on which I focus, More,...
Is the Contingentist/Inevitabilist Debate a Matter of Degrees?
Contingency inevitability social construction
2016/5/30
Debates between contingentists and inevitabilists contest whether the results of successful science are contingent or inevitable. This paper addresses lingering ambiguity in the way contingency is def...
Newton on Matter and Space in De gravitatione et aequipondio fluidorum
Isaac Newton Matter Space
2016/5/30
This paper explicates the concepts of matter and space that Newton develops in De gravitatione. As I interpret Newton’s account of created substances, bodies are constructed from qualities alone, as c...
Kant's dynamical theory of matter in 1755, and its debt to speculative Newtonian experimentalism
Kant, repulsive force, air, ether, Newton, Hales, Boerhaave
2011/9/8
This paper explores the scientific sources behind Kant’s early dynamical theory of matter in 1755, with a focus on two main Kant’s writings: Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens and On ...
General Relativity offers the possibility to model attributes of matter, like mass, momentum, angular momentum, spin, chirality etc. from pure space, endowed only with a single field that represents i...
Kant's dynamic theory of matter in 1755, and its debt to speculative Newtonian experimentalism
Kant repulsive force ether
2009/9/17
This paper explores the scientific sources behind Kant’s early dynamic theory of matter in 1755, with a focus on two main Kant’s writings: Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens and On Fi...
Some disagreements have arisen in the last few years regarding the role played by material properties when modeling, simulating and experimenting on physical systems (Morrison 2008, Parker (forthcomin...
Characterizing the Acts of Righteous Gentiles: A Matter of Duty or Supererogation?
Supererogation Righteous Gentiles
2009/7/8
To what extent should we trust the affirmations of Holocaust rescuers who, when questioned about their heroic efforts, tend to assert - adamantly - that they never went above and beyond the call of du...
Without God: Gravity as a Relational Property of Matter in Newton
Newton, gravity, matter-theory, action at a distance, field ontology, empiricism
2011/9/8
In this paper I interpret Newton’s speculative treatment of gravity as a relational, accidental property of matter that arises through what Newton calls “the shared action” of two bodies of matter. In...
“Ontological emergence” of inherent high-level properties with causal powers is witnessed nowhere. A non-substantialist conception of emergence works much better. It allows downward causation, provide...
The Methodological Value of Coincidences: Further Remarks on Dark Matter and the Astrophysical Warrant for General Relativity
Dark Matter General Relativity Evidence Methodology Theory Choice
2008/4/21
This paper compares four techniques for measuring the masses of galaxies and larger astrophysical systems from their dynamics. The apparent agreement of these techniques is sometimes invoked as reason...
This contribution explores Wolfgang Pauli's idea that mind and matter are complementary aspects of the same reality. We adopt the working hypothesis that there is an undivided timeless primordial real...
Some recent philosophical debate about persistence has focussed on an argument against perdurantism that discusses rotating perfectly homogeneous discs (the `rotating discs argument'; RDA). The argume...