Homepage of Simon Saunders

Simon Saunders is Professor of Philosophy of Physics

at the University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of

Merton College and a University Lecturer in Philosophy.

For links and more resources, and information on philosophy of

physics at Oxford University, go to the Philosophy of Physics website.

Contact

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telephone: (0)1865 276936
snailmail: Philosophy Faculty, Radcliffe Humanities, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG

Research interests

Recent and Forthcoming Papers

Click to download as pdf files:

The emergence of individuals in physics, Individuals Across the Sciences, A. Guay and T. Pradeu (eds.), OUP (2016).
Rethinking Newton's Principia, Philosophy of Science 80, 22-48 (2013).
Indistinguishability, Handbook of Philosophy of Physics, R. Batterman (ed.), OUP (2013).
Many worlds? an introduction, in Many Worlds? Everett, Quantum Theory, and Reality, S. Saunders, J. Barrett, A. Kent, and D. Wallace (eds.), Oxford (2010).
Chance in the Everett interpretation, in Many Worlds? Everett, Quantum Theory, and Reality, S. Saunders, J. Barrett, A. Kent, and D. Wallace (eds.), Oxford (2010).
Identity, in Compendium of Quantum Physics: Concepts, Experiments, History and Philosophy. Friedel Weinert, Klaus Hentschel, Dan Greenberger, (eds.), Springer-Verlag (2009).
Fermi-Dirac statistics, in Compendium of Quantum Physics: Concepts, Experiments, History and Philosophy , F. Weinert, K. Hentschel, and D. Greenberger, (eds.), Springer-Verlag (2009).
'The Philosophy of Physics', in The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Science, S, Psillos and M. Curd, eds., Routledge.
Discerning fermions, (with F. Muller), British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 59, 499-548 (2008).
Branching and uncertainty, (with D. Wallace), British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 59, 293-305 (2008).
Mirroring as an a priori symmetry, Philosophy of Science, 74, 452-480 (2007).
On the explanation for quantum statistics, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 37, 192-211 (2006).
Are quantum particles objects?, Analysis,66, 52-63 (2006).
See the symmetries, Times Literary Supplement, May 13, 2005.
Complementarity and scientific rationality, Foundations of Physics, 35, 347-72 (2005)
What is probability?", in Quo Vadis Quantum Mechanics?, A. Elitzur, S. Dolev, and N. Kolenda, eds., Springer-Verlag, Berlin (2005).
Operational derivation of the Born rule, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 460, 1-18 (2004).
Physics and Leibniz's principles, in Symmetries in Physics: Philosophical Reflections, K. Brading and E. Castellani, eds., Cambridge University Press (2003).
Structural realism, again , Synthese, 136, 127-33 (2003)
Critical notice: Cao's "The Conceptual Development of 20th Century Field Theories", Synthese,136 , 79-105 (2003)
Indiscernibles, general covariance and other symmetries: the case for non-reductive relationalism, Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics: Festschrift in Honour of John Stachel, A. Ashtekar et al, eds., Kluwer (2003).

Curriculum Vitae

List of publications
Positions, fellowships, awards
PhD Thesis (now downloadable): The Philosophical and Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Field Theory
Copyright Simon Saunders 2001. Last updated: 27 Sep 2013