My academic writings
All of my published articles and other writings are available here, with the exception of my book, The Emergent Multiverse. Papers are available grouped under subject headings, with abstracts and links; there is also a list in chronological order below, which links to the more detailed descriptions.
In most cases, the best-quality version of the paper will be the publisher's version, but usually you (or your institution) will need a subscription to the relevant online journal. In all cases I also give a link to a preprint version - usually on arxiv.org or on the Pittsburgh Philosophy of Science archive - but the journal version is usually better quality.
Any paper on this website may be quoted or cited without asking my permission, whether or not it has been officially published yet. If someone doesn't want their work to be publicly disussed, they shouldn't post it on the Internet. If you are citing a paper that's been published, please if possible refer to the final, journal version rather than to a preprint.
The date I list for a paper is the date at which it first became widely accessible. In some cases, this is up to several years before the "official" publication date.
2011
- H. Greaves and D. Wallace, "Empirical Consequences of Symmetries", in submission.
- D. Wallace, "Decoherence and its Role in the Modern Measurement Problem", invited submission to special issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A, edited by A. Hagar.
- D. Wallace, "The Everett Interpretation", in R. Batterman (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Physics (OUP, forthcoming).
- D. Wallace, "A prolegomenon to the ontology of the Everett interpretation", in A. Ney and D. Albert (ed.), The Wave Function: Essays in the Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics (forthcoming).
- D. Wallace, "The logic of the past hypothesis", in B. Loewer, E. Winsberg and B. Weslake (ed.) currently-untitled volume on themes from David Albert's Time and Chance (Harvard, forthcoming).
- D. Wallace, "Interview", in M. Schlosshauer (ed.), Elegance and Enigma: The Quantum Interviews (Springer, 2011).
- D. Wallace, "Taking Particle Physics Seriously: a critique of the algebraic approach to quantum field theory", Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 42 (2011) pp.116-125.
2010
- D. Wallace,"Diachronic Rationality and Prediction-Based Games",Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 110 (2010) pp. 243-266.
2009
- D. Wallace and C. Timpson, "Quantum Mechanics on Spacetime I: Spacetime State Realism", British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 61 (2010) pp. 697-727
- D. Wallace, "Gravity, Entropy and Cosmology: In Search of Clarity", British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 61 (2010) pp. 513-540.
- D. Wallace, "QFT, Antimatter, and Symmetry", Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 40 (2009) pp. 209-222.
- D. Wallace, "The Relativity and Equivalence Principles for Self-Gravitating Systems", forthcoming in D. Lehmkuhml (ed.), Towards a Theory of Spacetime Theories, in the Einstein Studies series, to appear in 2012-2013.
- D. Wallace, "Decoherence and Ontology: or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love FAPP", in S. Saunders, J. Barrett, A. Kent and D. Wallace (ed.), Many Worlds? Everett, Quantum Theory, and Reality (OUP, 2010).
- D. Wallace, "How to Prove the Born Rule", in S. Saunders, J. Barrett, A. Kent and D. Wallace (ed.), Many Worlds? Everett, Quantum Theory, and Reality (OUP, 2010).
2008
- S. Saunders and D. Wallace, "Saunders and Wallace Reply (2008)" British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 59 (2008), pp. 315-317
2007
- S. Saunders and D. Wallace,"Branching and Uncertainty" British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 59 (2008), pp. 293-305.
- D. Wallace, "Quantum Mechanics", chapter 1 of D. Rickles (ed), The Ashgate Companion to the New Philosophy of Physics (Ashgate, 2008). Published online under the title "The Measurement Problem: State of Play".
2005
- D. Wallace and C. Timpson, "Non-locality and gauge freedom in Deutsch and Hayden's formulation of quantum mechanics" Foundations of Physics 37 (2007), pp. 951-955.
- D. Wallace, "Quantum Probability from Subjective Likelihood: improving on Deutsch's proof of the probability rule", Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 38 (2007), pp. 311--332. (An earlier version was available in 2003, but this version is substantially revised.)
- H. Greaves and D. Wallace, "Justifying conditionalisation: conditionalisation maximises expected epistemic utility" Mind 115 (2006) pp. 607-632.
- D. Wallace, "Epistemology Quantised: circumstances in which we should come to believe in the Everett interpretation", British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 57 (2006), pp. 655-689.
- D. Wallace, "Language Use in a Branching Universe", online only (http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/2554/).
- D. Wallace, "Three Kinds of Branching Universe", unpublished (available only via this website).
2004
- H.R. Brown and D. Wallace, "Solving the measurement problem: de Broglie-Bohm loses out to Everett", Foundations of Physics 35 (2005), pp. 517-540.
- D. Wallace, "Protecting cognitive science from quantum theory", Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27 (2004) pp. 636-7.
2003
- D. Wallace, "Time-dependent symmetries: the link between gauge symmetries and indeterminism", in K. Brading and E. Castellani (ed.), Symmetries in physics: philosophical reflections (CUP, 2003).
2002
- D. Wallace, "Everettian Rationality: defending Deutsch's approach to probability in the Everett interpretation", Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 34 (2003), pp. 415-438.
- D. Wallace, Quantum Probability and Decision Theory, Revisited, online only (arxiv:quant-ph/0211104
2001
- D. Wallace, "Everett and Structure", Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 34 (2003), pp. 86--105.
- D. Wallace, "Worlds in the Everett Interpretation", Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 33 (2002), pp. 637--661.
- D. Wallace, "In defence of naivete: the conceptual status of Lagrangian QFT", Synthese 151 (2006) pp. 33-80.
- D. Wallace, "Emergence of particles from bosonic quantum field theory", online only (arxiv:quant-ph/0112149).
- D. Wallace, "Implications of quantum theory in the foundations of statistical mechanics", online only (http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/410).
- A. Kent and D. Wallace, "Quantum Interrogation and the Safer X-ray", online only (arxiv:quant-ph/0102118.
2000
- D. Wallace, "Simple computer model for the quantum Zeno effect", Physical Review A 63 (2001), 022019.
- D. Wallace, "The quantization of gravity - an introduction", online only arxiv:gr-qc/0004005.