Philosophy of Physics
Philosophy of Physics
Philosophy of Physics Links
- Epistemology and Modern Physics Essay on the Epistemological foundations of modern physics by Moritz Schlick, founder of the Vienna Circle.
- A Brief History and Philosophy of Physics From greeks to present, with bibliography.
- Science, pseudoscience and Society Good links: paper by Feynman on paranormal 'sciences', Sokal Affair (use of pseudo-physics in social sciences), critique of Kuhn..
- Compilation of on Articles Ether (Aether) Unfinished story of Ether (and other pages on the site, some dealing with philosophy, mysticism, history of science and some with open questions in physics)
- Thermodynamic Principles for the Social Sciences Concept of Entropy, in physics, and may be beyond.
- Shakespeare and Thermodynamics - Dam the Second Law! What the second law of thermodynamics is all about, and how it is constantly 'dammed' or blocked by activation energy
- Physics Time-Line From the Copernican Revolution to superstrings, a chronology of more than 500 of the greatest discoveries in natural philosophy.
- Consciousness, Life and Meaning Essay on evolution, consciousness
- Philosophy of Science Essays on problems, history of physics, mathematics,..
- Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions Crucial chapter from Kuhn's famous book outlining how sciences is forced to go through a paradigm-shift, and see the world in terms of a new theory and new concepts.
- Physics, philosophy and theology Pope John Paul II on 300th anniversary of the publication of Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
- The Bactra Reviews This is an excellent set of reviews, not limited to physics.
- Reichenbach's Common Cause Principle From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Frank Arntzenius.
- Symmetry in Physics Group of motions determines the conservation laws - the fundamental principles of physics.
- Philosophy of Physics great collection of link from Kyoto University: philosophers-physicists.
- Philosophy and Foundations links from MIT General + Causality + CP Violation + Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics + Spacetime Structure + Time
- Holism and Nonseparability in Physics Entry from the Stanford Encyclopedia.
- Review of "The Emperor's New Mind", by Roger Penrose His exploration is so much more serious philosophically than almost anything that has been done since Einstein and Schrodinger
- Philosophical Foundations of Physics by R. Carnap Positivist view of Physics, which had influenced the Copenhagen Interpretation of the Quantum mechanics (CI).
- Experiments in Physics Entry from the Stanford Encyclopedia.
- Identity and Individuality in Quantum Theory Assesses the metaphysical implications of quantum theory by considering the impact of the theory on our understanding of objects as individuals with well defined identity conditions. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Steven French.
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