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Many arguments found in the physics literature involve concepts that are not well-defined by the usual standards of mathematics. I argue that physicists are entitled to employ such concepts without ri...
Is There an Independent Principle of Causality in Physics? A Comment on Matthias Frisch, “Causal Reasoning in Physics.”
causality causation dispersion scattering
2008/4/15
Matthias Frisch has argued that the requirement that electromagnetic dispersion processes are causal adds empirical content not found in electrodynamic theory. I urge that this attempt to reconstitute...
There is a huge chasm between the notion of lawful determination that figures in fundamental physics, and the notion of causal determination that figures in the "folk physics" of everyday objects. In ...
Introduction to The Philosophy of Physics: Volume 2 of the North-Holland series, the Handbook of the Philosophy of Science
relativity theory quantum theory thermal physics
2008/4/15
This is the editors' introduction to a new anthology of commissioned articles covering the various branches of philosophy of physics. We introduce the articles in terms of the three pillars of modern ...
Indeterminism, Asymptotic Reasoning, and Time Irreversibility in Classical Physics.
determinism indeterminism acausality
2008/4/14
A recent proposal of Norton (2003) to show that a simple Newtonian system can exhibit stochastic acausal behavior by giving rise to spontaneous movements of a mass on the dome of a certain shape is ex...
Our discussion in the first five sections shows that little new can be said about compatibilism, that van Inwagen's argument for incompatibilism still stands, and that the view of free agency for a li...
High Energy Physics and Constructive Empiricism
elementary particle physics constructive empiricism
2008/4/14
Progress in elementary particle physics in recent decades has changed the status of the visible phenomena in the context of scientific research. Empiricist positions in philosophy of science, which pu...
Essay Review: Probability in Classical Statistical Physics
probability classical statistical mechanics
2008/4/11
Review article of Y.M. Guttmann, The Concept of Probability in Statistical Physics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999
Do the Causal Principles of Modern Physics Contradict Causal Anti-Fundamentalism?
Anti-Fundamentalism Modern Physics Contradict
2008/4/11
In Norton(2003), it was urged that the world does not conform at a fundamental level to some robust principle of causality. To defend this view, I now argue that the causal notions and principles of m...
Determinism and the Mystery of the Missing Physics
classical mechanics determinism point masses
2008/4/11
This article surveys the difficulties in establishing determinism for classical physics in the context of several distinct foundational approaches to the discipline. It also explains that such formula...
Critical Phenomena and Breaking Drops: Infinite Idealizations in Physics
Thermodynamic Limit Scaling Theory Reduction
2008/4/11
Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics are related to one another through the so-called "thermodynamic limit'' in which, roughly speaking the number of particles becomes infinite. At critical points...
Condensed Matter Physics and the Nature of Spacetime
spacetime condensed matter effective field theory
2008/4/10
This essay considers the prospects of modeling spacetime as a phenomenon that emerges in the low-energy limit of a quantum liquid. It evaluates three examples of spacetime analogues in condensed matte...
Causal Reasoning in Physics
Causation Physics Russell Norton
2008/4/10
In this paper I examine several neo-Russellian arguments for the claim that there is no room for an asymmetric notion of cause in mature physical theories. I argue that these arguments are unsuccessf...
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 Priori Conjectural Knowledge in Physics: The Comprehensibility of the Universe
A priori a priori knowledge physics scientific method
2008/4/9
In this paper I argue for a priori conjectural scientific knowledge about the world. Physics persistently only accepts unified theories, even though endlessly many empirically more successful disunifi...