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On Universals: An extensionalist alternative to Quine's resemblance theory
Universals resemblance sparse properties
2008/4/22
The notion of similarity plays a central role in Quine's theory of Universals and it is with the help of this notion that Quine intends to define the concept of kind which also plays a central role in...
Probability theory and causation.A branching space-times analysis
branching space-times causation probabilities screening-off
2008/4/22
We provide a formally rigorous framework for integrating singular causation, as understood by Nuel Belnap's theory of causae causantes, and objective single case probabilities. The central notion is t...
GRW Theory postulates a stochastic mechanism assuring that every so often the wave function of a quantum system is `hit', which leaves it in a localised state. How are we to interpret the probabilitie...
Roald Hoffmann and other theorists claim that we we ought to use highly idealized chemical models (``qualitative models'') in order to increase our understanding of chemical phenomena, even though oth...
Quantum Information Theory and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
quantum information Shannon information entanglement
2008/4/22
This thesis is a contribution to the debate on the implications of quantum information theory for the foundations of quantum mechanics.
In Part 1, the logical and conceptual status of various notion...
We develop and defend the thesis that the Hilbert space formalism of quantum mechanics is a new theory of probability. The theory, like its classical counterpart, consists of an algebra of events, and...
Quantum Probability and Decision Theory, Revisited
Quantum Mechanics Everett Interpretation
2008/4/22
An extended analysis is given of the program, originally suggested by Deutsch, of solving the probability problem in the Everett interpretation by means of decision theory. Deutsch's own proof is disc...
Realism in the age of String Theory
realism underdeterminism string theory structural realism
2008/4/22
String theory currently is the only viable candidate for a unified description of all known natural forces. This article tries to demonstrate that the fundamental structural and methodological differe...
Explaining the Unobserved: Why Quantum Theory Ain't Only About Information
Quantum information Collapse theories Crucial experiments
2008/4/22
A remarkable theorem by Clifton, Bub and Halvorson (2003) (CBH) characterizes quantum theory in terms of information--theoretic principles. According to Bub (2004, 2005) the philosophical significance...
Reality, measurement and locality in Quantum Field Theory
Quantum Field Theory Standard Model Correlations Locality
2008/4/22
It is currently believed that the local causality of Quantum Field
Theory (QFT) is destroyed by the measurement process. This belief
is also based on the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) paradox and on...
Relativity theory between structural and dynamical explanations
relativity spacetime explanation kinematics dynamics inertia
2008/4/22
In this review article I discuss Harvey Brown’s recent book Physical Relativity (OUP, 2005) by presenting and criticizing some of his main arguments in favour of a dynamical underpinning of rods contr...
What belongs to quantum theory is no more than what is needed for its derivation. Keeping to this maxim, we record a paradigmatic shift in the foundations of quantum mechanics, where the focus has rec...
SCIENTIFIC REALISM IN THE AGE OF STRING THEORY
realism underdetermination string theory structural realism
2008/4/22
String theory currently is the only viable candidate for a unified description of all known natural forces. This article tries to demonstrate that the fundamental structural and methodological differe...
In this paper (which is, at best, a work in progress), I discuss different modes of scientific explanation
identified by philosophers
(Hempel, Salmon, Kitcher, Friedman, Hughes)
and
examine how w...
Sider's stage theory and expectancy prior to personal fission
Sider stage theory personal fission
2008/4/22
According to Sider’s stage theory a subject about to undergo personal fission should expect to experience each outcome simultaneously as distinct persons. How is the subject to make sense of this ? I ...