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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...
"Fundamental Physics": Molecular Dynamics vs. Hydrodynamics
emergence intertheory relations condensed matter physics
2008/4/9
This paper concerns the scale related decoupling of the physics of breaking drops and considers the phenomenon from the point of view of both hydrodynamics and molecular dynamics at the nanolevel. It ...
“Between Physics and Biology: Chemical Sciences in the Twentieth Century”, 29-30 May 1999, München, Germany
Physics Biology Chemical Sciences
2008/4/7
Under the patronage of the UNESCO, the international science community has been shaping itself during the past decades, apparently inspired by a mixture of Prussian style of social organization, Arist...
Lyotard and the Postmodern Misunderstanding of Physics
postmodernism science relativism modernism
2008/4/1
This paper is a critical, and fairly detailed, engagement with Lyotard's account of 'postmodern' science as it is found in his The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge.
Patching Physics and Chemistry Together
Context Reduction Emergence Chemistry Quantum Mechanics
2008/4/1
The "usual story" regarding molecular chemistry is that it is roughly an application of quantum mechanics. That is to say, quantum mechanics supplies everything necessary and sufficient, both ontologi...
The Language of Classical Physics
Classical Physics Analytic Philosophy Copenhagen Interpretation
2008/3/31
The objectivity of physics has been called into question by social theorists, Kuhnian relativists, and by anomalous aspects of quantum mechanics. Here we focus on one neglected background issue, the c...