Philosophy of Physics

Bain, Jonathan. ''Weinberg on QFT: Demonstrative Induction and Underdetermination." Synthese 117, 1 (1998).
Weinberg's argument for local quantum theory as the only one that accords with relevant evidence. Two basic physical principles are applied to the underdetermination argument in the debate over scientific realism.

Bell, John S. ''On the Einstein Podolsky Rosen Paradox." Physics 1 (1964) 195.
Proof that quantum nonlocality cannot be the consequence of an incomplete statistical theory, but must itself be a feature of reality.

Berthold, Georg Englert, Marlin O Scully, Herbert Walther. ''The Duality in Matter and Light." Scientific American 271, 6 (1994) 86-92.

Buchanan, Mark. ''Beyond Reality." New Scientist 157, 2125 (1998) 26-30.

Cerf, N. J., C. Adami. ''Entropic Bell Inequalities." Phys. Rev. A 55 (1997) 3371-3374.
Introduces entropic Bell inequalities from considering entropy Venn diagrams. These entropic inequalities, akin to the Braunstein-Caves inequalities, are violated for aquantum-mechanical Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen pair, which implies that the conditional entropies of Bell variables must be negative in this case. This suggests that the satisfaction of entropic Bell inequalities is equivalent to the non-negativity of conditional entropies as a necessary condition for separability.

Chown, Marcus. ''Anything Goes." New Scientist, 6 June (1998).

Compagner, Aaldert. ''Definitions of Randomness." American Journal of Physics 59, 8 (1991) 700-705.

Deltete, Robert J. F. ''Hawking on God and Physical Theory." Endmatter 30, 4 (1995) 635-642.
Argues that Hawking's hope for a total explanation of everything produces a shallow theology and cannot do more within its narrow naturalistic path.

Dyson, Freeman. ''Energy in the Universe." Scientific American 224, 3 (1971) 51-59.

Einstein, Albert. ''The Nature of Reality." Modern Review (Calcutta) 49 (1931).
Einstein's dialogue on the nature of reality with R. Tagor.

Ellis, George F. R. ''Major Themes in the Relation Between Philosophy and Cosmology." Memoirs of the Italian Astronomical Society 62 (1990).

Epstein, Paul S. ''The Reality Problem in Quantum Mechanics." American Journal of Physics 13, 3 (1945) 127-136.

Folse, Henry J. ''Metaphysical Awakening in Philosophy of Quantum Physics." International Studies in Philosophy 23, 1 (1991) 89-98.
Reviews the books on quantum physics to conclude that the philosophical questions it poses have not been solved, and that their solution requires reconstructing classical ontological assumptions.

Ford, J. ''The Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Problem: Paradox Turns Discovery." Physics Reports 213 (1992) 271.
Perhaps the best exposition of the significance of the FPU problem, the KAM theorem, and chaotic dynamics. The separate facts were well known, but here Ford explains their connections and significance.

Hawking, Stephen W., Roger Penrose. ''The Nature of Space and Time." Scientific American 275, 1 (1996) 60.

Horwitz, L. P., R. I. Arshansky, A. C. Elitzur. ''On the Two Aspects of Time: The Distinction and its Implications." Foundations of Physics 18, 12 (1988) 1159-1193.

Hut, Piet. & M. J. Rees. "How Stable is Our Vacuum?" Nature 302 (1983) 508-509.

Jaki, Stanley. ''Physics and the Ultimate." Ultimate Reality and Meaning 11, 1 (1988) 61-73.

Jaki, Stanley. ''Teaching of Transcendence in Physics." American Journal of Physics 55 (1987) 884-888.

Johnson, George. ''Quantum Stew: How Physicists Are Redefining Reality's Rules." New York Times Oct 16 (2001).

Labson, Sam, Dennis Rohatyn. ''Mach's Razor, Duhem's Holism, and Bell's Theorem." Philosophy in Science 5 (1993) 83-116.

Le Poidevin, Robin. ''Relative Realities." Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 28B, 4 (1997) 541-546.
Argues against Mauro Donato's version of "becoming" in Time and Reality as an incomplete and inadequate notion.

Muir, Hazel. ''Heavenly Visions." New Scientist 152 (1996) 30-31.

Nemesszeghy, Ervin. ''Searching for the Ultimate in Physics after the Big Bang." Ultimate Reality and Meaning 24, 2 (2001) 135-149.

Page, D. N. ''Evolution Without Evolution: Dynamics Described by Stationary Observables." Physical Review D27, 12 (1983) 2885-2892.
In quantum theory, times as special cases of other universes. Motion as a special case of quantum entanglement.

Pollard, William G. ''Rumors of Transcendence in Physics." American Journal of Physics 52, 10 (1984) 877-881.

Prigogine, Ilya. ''Why Irreversibility?: The Formulation of Classical and Quantum Mechanics for Non-integrable Systems." International Journal of Quantum Chemistry 53 (1995).
The ultimate source of irreversibility of time as diffusion in a Hilbert space.

Saunders, Simon. ''Time, Quantum Mechanics, and Probability." Synthese 114, 3 (1998) 373-404.
Argues that an appropriate understanding of quantum theory, using Everett's relative state theory, gives it empirical content.

Smart, J. J. ''Philosophical Problems of Cosmology." Review of International Philosophy 41 (1987) 112-116.

Zilsel, Edgar. ''The Genesis of the Concept of Physical Law." Philosophical Review 51, 3 (1942) 245-277.