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On the Metaphysics of Least Action
Dispositionalism Armstrong Humeanism Laws of Nature Action Principles
2016/6/15
When it comes to predicting the evolution of physical systems, there seem to be two mathematically equivalent, but conceptually distinct kinds of what we might call `fundamental laws': there are those...
Delayed-Choice Experiments and the Metaphysics of Entanglement
Delayed-choice experiments double-slit experiment entanglement swapping quantum eraser realism
2016/6/13
Delayed-choice experiments in quantum mechanics are often taken to undermine a realistic interpretation of the quantum state. More specifically, Healey has recently argued that the phenomenon of delay...
Individuality,quantum physics,and a metaphysics of non-individuals:the role of the formal
non-individuals individuality quantum objects identity
2016/5/30
The notion of an individual and the related issues on individuation are topics that appear in the philosophical discussion ever since the antiquity. The idea of an individual thing is intuitively clea...
How to combine and not to combine physics and metaphysics
physics metaphysics modality possibility time quantum mechanics interpretation manifest image scientific image
2016/5/30
In this paper I will argue that if physics is to become a coherent metaphysics of nature it needs an “interpretation”. As I understand it, an interpretation of a physical theory amounts to offering (1...
On the Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics
quantum mechanics Bohmian mechanics Everettian quantum mechanics GWR theory primitive ontology wave function ontology
2016/5/27
What is quantum mechanics about? The most natural way to interpret quantum mechanics realistically as a theory about the world might seem to be what is called wave function ontology: the view accordin...
Proportionality and the Metaphysics of Causation
contrastivism causation proportionality Metaphysics
2009/9/17
This paper reexamines the case for a proportionality constraint on causation. The general idea behind the proportionality constraint is that causes need the right amount of detail. The cause needs to ...
Carnap on Theoretical Terms: Structuralism without Metaphysics
Carnap structuralism structural realism theoretical terms Ramsey sentence
2009/6/5
Both realists and instrumentalists have found it difficult to understand (much less accept) Carnap’s developed view on theoretical terms, which attempts to stake out a neutral position between realism...
Carnap on Theoretical Terms: Structuralism without Metaphysics
Carnap, structuralism, structural realism, theoretical terms, Ramsey sentence, Carnap sentence
2011/9/7
Both realists and instrumentalists have found it difficult to understand (much less accept) Carnap’s developed view on theoretical terms, which attempts to stake out a neutral position between realism...
Hypothetical metaphysics of nature
block universe eternalism incommensurability scientific realism structural realism
2009/5/6
The paper first sketches out a reply to the underdetermination challenge and the incommensurability challenge that rebuts the sceptical conclusions of these challenges and that is sufficient to lay th...
Newton's Metaphysics of Space: A "Tertium Quid" Betwixt Substantivalism and relationism, or merely a "God of the (Rational Mechanical) Gaps"?
Space and Time, Newton, physics
2011/9/8
This paper investigates the question of, and the degree to which, Newton’s theory of space constitutes a third-way between the traditional substantivalist and relationist ontologies, i.e., that Newton...
Kant and Whewell on Bridging Principles between Metaphysics and Science
natural Philosophy Kant Whewell History of Philosophy of Science
2011/9/7
In this essay, I call attention to Kant’s and Whewell’s attempt to provide bridging principles between a priori principles and scientific laws. Part of Kant’s aim in the Opus postumum (ca. 1796-1803) ...
Kant and Whewell on Bridging Principles between Metaphysics and Science
natural Philosophy, Kant, Whewell, History of Philosophy of Science
2011/9/7
In this essay, I call attention to Kant’s and Whewell’s attempt to provide bridging principles between a priori principles and scientific laws. Part of Kant’s aim in the Opus postumum (ca. 1796-1803) ...
Nietzsche on Religion, Metaphysics and the Contemporary World
Metaphysics the Contemporary World
2008/8/18
To address the various themes of this conference my paper, Nietzsche on Religion, Metaphysics and the Contemporary World will analyze the following quotes by Nietzsche:
[1] [“The Chinese … seem...
The rehabilitation of a metaphysics of nature
underdetermination incommensurability metaphysics of science
2008/4/21
The paper first sketches out a reply to the underdetermination challenge and the incommensurability challenge that rebuts the sceptical conclusions of these challenges and that is sufficient to lay th...
Modal Metaphysics and the Everett Interpretation
the Everett Interpretation Modal Metaphysics
2008/4/15
Recent work on probability in the Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics yields a decision-theoretic derivation of David Lewis’ Principal Principle, and hence a general metaphysical theory of pro...