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The following list is intended to be of interest to and useful for those working in the philosophy of physics. It includes physicists and philosophers who, in one way or another, work on the philosophy/foundations of physics. There are bound to be many omissions and errors; please e-mail me if you notice any. (N.B. in many cases the philosopher/physicist classification is rather arbitrary. I have been guided, where appropriate, by departmental affiliation.)
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Physicists
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A – D
- Andre Koch Torres Assis
- John Baez
- John Baez
- quantum gravity and n-categories
- Department of Mathematics, University of California, Riverside
- Julian Barbour
- foundations of general relativity, Mach's Principle, quantum cosmology
- Richard Dawid
- Dennis Dieks
- interpretation of quantum mechanics, esp. the modal interpretation
- Institute for History and Foundations of Mathematics and the Natural Sciences, Utrecht University
- David Deutsch
- quantum computation, interpretation of quantum mechanics
- Centre for Quantum Computation, Oxford University
- Matthew Donald
- Many-minds interpretations of quantum theory
- The Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University
- Detlef Dürr
- de Broglie-Bohm versions of quantum mechanics
- Mathematisches Institut, Universität München
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E – K
- Christopher A. Fuchs
- James G. Gilson
- Sheldon Goldstein
- James G. Gilson
- mathematical physics, foundations of quantum mechanics, Bohmian mechanics
- Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University
- Mehdi Golshani
- Stephen Hawking
- Stephen Hawking
- quantum gravity, black holes, cosmology
- Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics (DAMTP), Cambridge University
- Michael Heller
- Gerard 't Hooft
- Gerard 't Hooft
- gauge theories in elementary particle physics; quantum gravity and black holes
- Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht University
- Erich Joos
- quantum theory, decoherence
- Adrian Kent
- foundations of quantum theory, quantum information
- Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics (DAMTP), Cambridge University
- Karel Kuchar
- the Hamiltonian theory of Einstein's gravitational field, quantum theory of covariant systems, and quantum geometrodynamics
- Department of Physics, University of Utah
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L – R
- Janneke van Lith
- foundations of statistical mechanics
- Institute for History and Foundations of Mathematics and the Natural Sciences, Utrecht University
- Michael C. Mackey
- Jerrold Marsden
- Jerrold Marsden
- geometric mechanics
- Division of Engineering & Applied Science, California Institute of Technology
- Fred Muller
- foundations and philosophy of physics, of mathematics and of logic, general philosophy of science
- Institute for History and Foundations of Mathematics and the Natural Sciences, Utrecht University
- Karin Münch-Berndl
- de Broglie-Bohm versions of quantum mechanics
- Institut für Mathematik, Universität Zürich
- Willem M. de Muynck
- Foundations of quantum mechanics and relativity theory
- Henk de Regt
- intelligibility and modern physical theory
- Institute for History and Foundations of Mathematics and the Natural Sciences, Utrecht University
- Carlo Rovelli
- quantum gravity
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh
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S – Z
- Afshin Shafiee
- Gao Shan
- Andrew Steane
- Gao Shan
- fundamental questions in physics, especially the nature of quantum mechanics
- Department of Atomic and Laser Physics, Oxford University
- László E. Szabó
- Stefan Teufel
- Stefan Teufel
- quantum scattering (foundations and the role of the quantum flux), Bohmian mechanics, covariant geometrodynamics
- Center of Mathematics, Technical University of Munich
- Jos Uffink
- the foundations of quantum mechanics and of probabilistic or stastical theories in general
- Institute for History and Foundations of Mathematics and the Natural Sciences, Utrecht University
- Nino Zanghì
- mathematical physics, foundations of quantum mechanics, Bohmian Mechanics
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova
- H. Dieter Zeh
- quantum theory (esp. decoherence), the direction of time
- The Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, University of Heidelberg
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Philosophers
- David Albert
- Frank Arntzenius
- Guido Bacciagaluppi
- Jonathan Bain
- Jeffrey Barrett
- Gordon Belot
- Michel Bitbol
- Frank Arntzenius
- Directeur de recherche at the CNRS and charge de cours at the University Paris I (Sorbonne); present work is mainly about the philosophy of quantum mechanics (with a neo-kantian orientation), and about the philosophy of mind
- Alisa Bokulich
- Peter Bokulich
- Harvey Brown
- James Robert Brown
- Jeffrey Bub
- Jeremy Butterfield
- Craig Callender
- Tian Yu Cao
- Nancy Cartwright
- Anjan Chakravartty
- Mauro Dorato
- Antony Eagle
- John Earman
- Adam Elga
- Michael Esfeld
- Steven French
- Adolf Grünbaum
- Hans Halvorson
- Richard Healey
- Carl Hoefer
- Nick Huggett
- Michel Janssen
- Barry Loewer
- John Lucas
- Peter Lynds
- Holger Lyre
- Paul Mainwood
- Tim Maudlin
- Joseph Melia
- Brent Mundy
- Bill Newton-Smith
- John Norton
- David Papineau
- Vesselin Petkov
- Oliver Pooley
- Huw Price
- Dean Rickles
- Robert Rynasiewicz
- Simon Saunders
- Abner Shimony
- Ed Slowik
- Peter Smith
- John Stachel
- Mauricio Suarez
- Paul Teller
- Chris Timpson
- Soshichi Uchii
- Bas C. van Fraassen
- Pieter Vermaas
- Peter Bokulich
- modal interpretations of quantum mechanics
- Department of Philosophy, Delft University of Technology
- David Wallace
- Steven Weinstein
- Christian Wüthrich
- Steven Weinstein
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