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An Application of Information Theory to the Problem of the Scientific Experiment
Information theory ergodic theory induction
2008/4/10
There are two basic approaches to the problem of induction: the empirical one, which deems that the possibility of induction depends on how the world was made (and how it works) and the logical one, w...
An alternative to Kitcher's theory of conceptual progress and his account of the change of the gene concept
concepts conceptual change gene concept
2008/4/10
The present paper discusses Kitcher’s framework for studying conceptual change and progress. Kitcher’s core notion of reference potential is hard to apply to concrete cases. In addition, an account of...
Field theories have been central to physics over the last 150 years, and there are several theories in contemporary physics in which physical fields play key causal and explanatory roles. This paper p...
On the basis of examples from mathematical physics, theoretical hypotheses are distinguished from generative theories. An example of the former is Green’s claim that light is the vibrations of a certa...
A Theory of the Universe from Contemporary Physics: Evaluating Smolin's Argument for the Elimination of 'Ideal Elements'
quantum cosmology Barbour-Bertotti theory
2008/4/9
I explore Leibnizian themes in the theoretical physicist's pursuit of a quantum cosmology by examining Smolin's program based on the elimination of ideal elements. These constructs are formal mathemat...
A theory of causation: causae causantes (originating causes) as inus conditions in branching space-times
causation indeterminism inus conditions
2008/4/9
Branching space-times (BST) theory, as developed elsewhere,
permits a sound and rigorously definable notion of
``originating cause'' or causa causans---a type of
transition event---of an outcome ev...
A theory of causal learning in children: Causal maps and Bayes nets
General Issues Causation
2008/4/9
We propose that children employ specialized cognitive systems that allow them to recover an accurate “causal map” of the world: an abstract, coherent, learned representation of the causal relations am...
This paper outlines a ‘paradox’ in quantum measurement theory, illustrated with two different types of systems. If this paradox cannot be resolved in ordinary quantum mechanics (as I currently think),...
Within the framework of general relativity, in some cases at least, it is a delicate and interesting question just what it means to say that an extended body is or is not "rotating". It is so for two ...
Contrary to formal theories of induction, I argue that there are no universal inductive inference schemas. The inductive inferences of science are grounded in matters of fact that hold only in particu...
A recent analysis by de Barros and Suppes of experimentally realizable
GHZ correlations supports the conclusion that these correlations
cannot be explained by introducing local hidden variables. We ...
A Critical Review of Wigner's Work on the Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Theory
Wigner Quantum theory Realism Measurement problem
2008/4/9
Excerpt from the Conclusions:
Many of Wigner’s papers on mathematical physics are great classics. Most famous is his work on group representations which is of lasting value for a proper mathematical...
An essay review of Richard Johns "A Theory of Physical Probability" (University of Toronto Press, 2002).Forthcoming in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science.
"On the Time Reversal Invariance of Classical Electromagnetic Theory"
time reversal invariance electromagnetic theory
2008/4/9
David Albert claims that classical electromagnetic theory is not time reversal invariant. He acknowledges that all physics books say that it is, but claims they are ``simply wrong" because they rely ...
The Problem of Transition Across Levels in the van Hiele Theory of Geometric Reasoning
Geometric Reasoning Transition Across Levels
2008/4/8
The most outstanding characteristic of the van Hiele theory of geometric reasoning (Hoffer, 1983; Perdikaris, 1994; van Hiele,1986) is perhaps the relationship between the levels of reasoning, a hiera...