Philosophy of Physics

Aczel, Amir D. God's Equation: Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe. New York: Delta, 1999.

Agazzi, Evandro. ed. Realism and Quantum Physics. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997.
Eleven essays explore the general philosophical context of scientific realism and then look into the existence of hidden and unobscurable entities in general and in quantum physics in particular.

Albert, David Z. Time and Chance. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000.

Auyang, S. How is Quantum Field Theory Possible? Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Barrett, Jeffrey A. The Quantum Mechanics of Minds and Worlds. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Deals comprehensively with the quantum measurement problem and its interpretation.

Bell, J. S. Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
A collection of John Bell's impotant papers including the discussions on EPR, reality, "beables".

Bohm, David. Causality & Chance in Modern Physics. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1957.

Bohm, David, B. J. Hiley. The Undivided Universe: An Ontological Interpretation of Quantum Theory. London & New York: Routledge, 1993.
Authors claim that Bohm's "realistic" view of quantum theory can handle all the measurement problems, and it can make another prediction or two.

Bohr, Niels. Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge. New York: Wiley, 1959.
Nature of reality in Quantum Physics.

Cartwright, Nancy. How the Laws of Physics Lie. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Cartwright argues that there is a very large gap between the idealizations of physical models and their application to actual cases.

Castellani, Elena. Interpreting Bodies: Classical and Quantum Objects in Modern Physics. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.
Papers focus on microphysical objects, the individuality of objects, the notion of invariance for identification of objects, and how to relate measurable properties to a physical entity.

Christensen, F. M. Space-like Time: Consequences of, Alternatives to, and Arguments Regarding the Theory That Time Is Like Space. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 1993.

Cole, K. C. The Hole in the Universe: How Scientists Peered Over the Edge of Emptiness and Found Everything. New York: Harcourt, Inc., 2001.

Cook, Alan. The Observational Foundations of Physics. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1994.

Coveney, Peter, Roger Highfield. The Arrow of Time: A Voyage Through Science to Solve Time's Greatest Mystery. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1991.

Craig, William Lane. The Tensed Theory of Time: A Critical Examination. Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000.

Davies, Paul, John Gribbin. The Matter Myth: Dramatic Discoveries that Challenge Our Understanding of Physical Reality. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1992.

D'Espagnat, Bernard. Reality and the Physicist: Knowledge, Duration and the Quantum World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

D'Espagnat, Bernard. Veiled Reality: An Analysis of Present-Day Quantum Mechanical Concepts. Wesley Longman, 1994.

Duhem, Pierre M. The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1954.

Ellis, George, and R. Williams. Flat and Curved Space-time. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988.

Fagg, Lawrence W. The Becoming of Time: Integrating Physical and Religious Time. Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1995.

Faraday, Michael. The Forces of Matter. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1993.

Feynman, Richard P. The Character of Physical Law. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994.

Fox, Matthew, Rupert Sheldrake. The Physics of Angels: Exploring the Realm Where Science and Spirit Meet. New York: HarperCollins, 1996.

Genz, Henning. Nothingness: The Science of Empty Space. Reading, MA: Perseus Books, 1999.

Goldman, Martin. The Demon in the Aether: The Story of James Clerk Maxwell. Edinburgh, UK: Paul Harris Publishing, 1983.

Halliwell, J. J., J. Pérez-Mercader, W.H. Zurek. Physical Origins of Time Asymmetry. Cambridge: CUP, 1994.

Hawking, S., Roger Penrose. The Nature of Space and Time. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.
Nature and reality of space-time from two great thinkers.

Heisenberg, Werner. Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Physics. New York: Harper & Row, 1958.

Hines, Brian. God's Whisper, Creation's Thunder: Echoes of Ultimate Reality in the New Physics. Brattleboro, UT: Threshold Books, 1996.

Hooykaas, Reijer. Das Verhältnis von Physik und Mechanik in historischer Hinsicht. Wiesbaden, Germany: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1963.

Jammer, Max. Concepts of Mass in Contemporary Physics and Philosophy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000.

Jeans, Sir James. Physics and Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1943.

Jungerman, John A. World in Process: Creativity and Interconnection in the New Physics. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2000.

Kafatos, Menas, Robert Nadeau. The Conscious Universe: Part and Whole in Modern Physical Theory. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1990.

Kostro, L. Einstein and the Ether. Montreal: Apeiron, 2000.

Leibowitz, Flora Lynn. Aspects of Ether Theory: A Study in the Philosophy of Science. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University, 1979.

Lerner, Eric. The Big Bang Never Happened: A Startling Refutation of the Dominant Theory of the Origin of the Universe. New York: Times Books, Random House, 1991.

Leslie, John. Physical Cosmology and Philosophy. London: Macmillan, 1990.

Lindley, David. The End of Physics: The Myth of a Unified Theory. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1993.

Malin, Shimon. Nature Lovers to Hide: Quantum Physics and Reality, a Western Perspective. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Margenau, Henry. The Nature of Physical Reality. Woodbridge: BOW Press, 1977.

Maudlin, Tim. Quantum Non-locality and Relativity: Metaphysical Intimations of Modern Physics. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1994.

Maxwell, James Clerk. Matter and Motion. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK), 1920.

Mook, D., and T. Varish. Inside Relativity. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1987.

Nahin, Paul J. Time Machines: Time Travel in Physics, Metaphysics, and Science Fiction. AIP Press: Springer-Verlag, 1999.

Nerlich, Graham. ed. What Spacetime Explains: Metaphysical Essays on Space and Time. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Eleven essays defend a realistic view based on aspects of General Relativity, meeting objections.

Norris, Christopher. Quantum Theory and the Flight from Realism: Philosophical Responses to Quantum Mechanics. New York: Routledge, 2000.

Oliver, David. The Shaggy Steed of Physics: Mathematical Beauty in the Physical World. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1994.

Omnés, Roland. Quantum Philosophy: Understanding and Interpreting Contemporary Science. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999.

Omnés, Roland. Understanding Quantum Mechanics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1999.

Poincaré, Henry. Les Méthodes Nouvelles De La Mécanique Céleste: Vol. 1,2,3. Paris, 1892.

Price, Huw. Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point: New Directions for the Physics of Time. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Prigogine, Ilya, Isabelle Steugers. The End of Certainty: Time, Chaos and the New Laws of Nature. Free Press, 1997.
Time as the source of all reality.

Redhead, Michael. From Physics to Metaphysics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Reichenbach, H., The Philosophy of  Space and Time. Translated by Maria Reichenbach and John Freund. New York: Dover, 1958.
A classic, clear, insightful treatment of measurement of space and time, the conventionality of geometry.

Rothman, Milton. Dicovering the Natural Laws: The Experimental Basis of Physics. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972.

Rössler, Otto E. Endophysics: The World as an Interface. World Scientific, 1998.
Argues for a new notion of reality, utilizing notions from chaos theory, relativity, quanta, and other recent and contemporary work.

Saunders, Simon, Harvey R. Brown. eds. The Philosophy of the Vacuum. New York: Clarendon/Oxford Press, 1991.
Essays by several authorities on aspects of the quantum vacuum.

Sklar, Lawrence. Philosophy of Physics. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Sklar, Lawrence. Space, Time, and Spacetime. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1974.
Deals with substantial vs. relational space, the conventionality of geometry and topology, the direction of time.

Stapp, Henry. Mind, Matter and Quantum Mechanics. Springer-Verlag, 1993.
Reality in quantum mechanics and how it is related to the functioning of the human mind.

Stein, Irving. The Concept of Object as The Foundation of Physics. New York: Lang, 1996.
Develops an ontology of object as the foundation for classical, relativistic and quantum physics, and shows how object derives from and even more basic concept.

Stenger, Victor J. Timeless Reality: Symmetry, Simplicity, and Multiple Universes. New York: Prometheus Books, 2000.

Torretti, R. The Philosophy of Physics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Offers an unsophisticated survey of the development of theoretical physics from the days of Galilei until the development of relativistic quantum theories and how physicists of each of these periods viewed physical reality.

Toulmin, Stephen. Physical Reality: Philosophical Essays on Twentieth-Century Physics. New York: Harper & Row, 1970.

Toulmin, Stephen, June Goodfield. The Discovery of Time. New York: Harper and Row Publishers, 1965.

Trusted, Jennifer. Physics and Metaphysics: Theories of Space and Time. London: Routledge.

Wesson, Robert G. Cosmos and Metacosmos. La Salle, IL: Open Court Press, 1989.

Weyl, Hermann. Raum, Zeit, Materie. Springer-Verlag, 1918.

Weyl, Hermann. Symmetry. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1980.

Whittaker, Edmund Taylor. A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity. New York: Dover Publications, 1989.

Wigner, Eugene P. Symmetries and Reflections. Bloomington: Indiana Univ Press, 1967.
Contains Wigner's remarks on mind-body questions.

Wilber, Ken. Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists. Shambhala Publications, 2001.

Zee, A. Fearful Symmetry: The Search for Beauty in Modern Physics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1999.

Zukav, Gary. The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics. William Morrow & Co, 1979.