Research Papers

(2008) (with D. Wallace), "Branching and Uncertainty", British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, forthcoming. Available online at http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00003383. Download as a pdf file.
(2007) "Mirroring as an A Priori Symmetry", Philosophy of Science, 74, 452-480 (2007). Download as a pdf file
(2006a) "On the Explanation for Quantum Statistics, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 37, 192-211. Available online at http://xxxx.arXiv.org/quant-ph/0511136. Download as a pdf file.
(2006b) "Are Quantum Particles Objects?, Analysis,66, 52-63. Download as a pdf file.
(2005a) "Complementarity and Scientific Rationality", Foundations of Physics,35, 347-72. Available online at http://xxxx.arXiv.org/quant-ph/0412195 Download as a pdf file.
(2005b) "What is Probability?", in Quo Vadis Quantum Mechanics, Elitzur, S. Dolev, and N. Kolenda, eds., Springer. Available online at http://xxxx.arXiv.org/quant-ph/0412194 Download as a pdf file.
(2004) "Operational Derivation of the Born Rule", Proceedings of the Royal Society of London , A, 460, 1-18 (available at http://xxxx.arXiv.org/quant-ph/0211138, but with a trivial but mildly embarrassing error in one of the proofs). Download as a pdf file
(2003a), "Physics and Leibniz's Principles">, in Symmetries in Physics: Philosophical Reflections, K. Brading and E. Castellani, eds., Cambridge University Press.

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(2003b)"Structural Realism, Again", Synthese, 136, 127-33 (2003).

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(2003c), "Critical Notice: Cao's "The Conceptual Development of 20th Century Field Theories", Synthese, forthcoming. Download as a pdf file
(2003d) "Indiscernibles, General Covariance, and Other Symmetries", in Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics: Festschrift in Honour of John Stachel, A. Ashtekar, D. Howard, J. Renn, S. Sarkar, and A. Shimony, (eds.), Kluwer. Download as pdf file
(2002a), "How Relativity Contradicts Presentism", in Time, Reality, and Experience,, ed. C. Callender, Cambridge University Press. Download as pdf file
(2002b) ‘Is the Zero-Point Energy Real?’, in Ontological Aspects of Quantum Field Theory, M. Kuhlmann, H. Lyre, and A. Wayne, (eds)., Singapore: World Scientific. Download as a pdf file.
(2001c), "Spacetime and Probability", in Chance in Physics: Foundations and Perspectives, J. Bricmont, D. Dürr, M.C. Galavotti, G. Ghirardi, F. Petruccione, N. Zanghi (eds.), Springer-Verlag, (2001). Download as a pdf file
(2000) "Tense and Indeterminateness", Philosophy of Science, 67, S600-611. Download as pdf file
(1999) "The "Beables" of Relativistic Pilot-Wave Theory", in From Physics to Philosophy, J. Butterfield, and C. Pagonis, (eds.), Cambridge University Press. Download as a pdf file
(1998a) "Hertz's Principles", in Heinrich Hertz: Classical Physicist, Modern Philosopher, D. Baird et al, (eds.), Kluwer.
(1998b) "Time, Quantum Mechanics, and Probability", Synthese, 114, p.405-44. Download as pdf file
(1996a) "Time, Quantum Mechanics, and Tense", Synthese, 107, 19-53.
(1996b) "Naturalizing Metaphysics", The Monist, 80, p.44-69.
(1995a) "Time, Quantum Mechanics, and Decoherence", Synthese, 102, 235-66.Download as pdf file
(1995b) "Relativism", in Perspectives on Quantum Reality, R. Clifton, ed., Kluwer, Dordrecht, p.125-42.
(1994a) "A Dissolution of the Problem of Locality", Philosophy of Science (Proceedings), Vol.2, p.88-98.
(1994b) "Time and Quantum Mechanics", in Physics and the Now, M. Bitbol, ed., Editions Frontieres, Paris, p.21-70.
(1994c) "What is the Problem of Measurement?", Harvard Review of Philosophy, Spring Edition.
(1994d) "Decoherence and Evolutionary Adaptation", Physics Letters A 184, p.1-5.
(1993a) "Decoherence, Relative States, and Evolutionary Adaptation", Foundations of Physics, 23, 1553-1585.
(1993b) "To What Physics Corresponds", in Correspondence, Invariance, and Heuristics; Essays in Honour of Heinz Post, S. French and H. Kaminga, (eds.), Kluwer, p.295-326.
(1992) "Locality, Complex Numbers, and Relativistic Quantum Theory", Philosophy of Science (Proceedings) Vol.1, p.365-380.
(1991) "The Negative Energy Sea", in Philosophy of Vacuum, S. Saunders and H. Brown (eds.), Clarendon Press.
(1991) "Reflections on Ether" (with H. Brown), in Philosophy of Vacuum, p.27-64.
(1988) "The Algebraic Approach to Quantum Field Theory", in Philosophical Foundations of Quantum Field Theory, H. Brown and R. Harre (eds.), Clarendon Press.