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Simon Saunders is Reader in Philosophy of Physics and University Lecturer in Philosophy of Science at the University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of Linacre College and a member of the Philosophy and Physics Faculties.

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Branching and Uncertainty, (with D. Wallace), British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, forthcoming.
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).

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