Items where Author is "Earman, John"

Article

Earman, John (2011) The Unruh effect for philosophers. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 42 (2). 81 - 97. ISSN 1355-2198

Earman, John and Smeenk, Christopher and Wüthrich, Christian (2009) Do the laws of physics forbid the operation of time machines? Synthese, 169 (1). 91 - 124. ISSN 0039-7857

Earman, John (2009) Essential self-adjointness: implications for determinism and the classical–quantum correspondence. Synthese, 169 (1). 27 - 50. ISSN 0039-7857

Earman, John (2008) How Determinism Can Fail in Classical Physics and How Quantum Physics Can (Sometimes) Provide a Cure. Philosophy of Science, 75 (5). 817 - 829. ISSN 0031-8248

Earman, John (2008) Superselection Rules for Philosophers. Erkenntnis, 69 (3). 377 - 414. ISSN 0165-0106

Earman, John (2008) Reassessing the Prospects for a Growing Block Model of the Universe. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 22 (2). 135 - 164. ISSN 0269-8595

Earman, John and Fraser, Doreen (2006) Haag’s Theorem and its Implications for the Foundations of Quantum Field Theory. Erkenntnis, 64 (3). 305 - 344. ISSN 0165-0106

Earman, John (2006) The “Past Hypothesis”: Not even false. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 37 (3). 399 - 430. ISSN 1355-2198

Earman, John and Ruetsche, Laura (2005) Relativistic Invariance and Modal Interpretations. Philosophy of Science, 72 (4). 557 - 583. ISSN 0031-8248

Earman, John (2004) Laws, Symmetry, and Symmetry Breaking: Invariance, Conservation Principles, and Objectivity. Philosophy of Science, 71 (5). 1227 - 1241. ISSN 0031-8248

Earman, John (2004) Curie's Principle and spontaneous symmetry breaking. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 18 (2-3). 173 - 198. ISSN 0269-8595

Earman, John (2003) The cosmological constant, the fate of the universe, unimodular gravity, and all that. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 34 (4). 559 - 577. ISSN 1355-2198

Arageorgis, Aristidis and Earman, John and Ruetsche, Laura (2003) Fulling Non-uniqueness and the Unruh Effect: A Primer on Some Aspects of Quantum Field Theory. Philosophy of Science, 70 (1). 164 - 202. ISSN 0031-8248

Earman, John (2002) What time reversal invariance is and why it matters. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 16 (3). 245 - 264. ISSN 0269-8595

Earman, John (2002) Gauge Matters. Philosophy of Science, 69 (S3). S209 - S220. ISSN 0031-8248

Earman, John (2002) Thoroughly Modern McTaggart: Or, What McTaggart Would Have Said if He Had Read the General Theory of Relativity. Philosophers' Imprint, 2 (3). 1 - 28. ISSN 1533-628X

Arageorgis, Aristidis and Earman, John and Ruetsche, Laura (2002) Weyling the time away: the non-unitary implementability of quantum field dynamics on curved spacetime. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 33 (2). 151 - 184. ISSN 1355-2198

Earman, John (2001) Lambda: The Constant That Refuses to Die. Archive for History of Exact Sciences, 55 (3). 189 - 220. ISSN 0003-9519

Earman, John and Eisenstaedt, Jean (1999) Einstein and Singularities. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 30 (2). 185 - 235. ISSN 1355-2198

Earman, John and Mosterin, Jesus (1999) A Critical Look at Inflationary Cosmology. Philosophy of Science, 66 (1). 1 - 49. ISSN 0031-8248

Earman, John and Roberts, John (1999) UNSPECIFIED Synthese, 118 (3). 439 - 478. ISSN 0039-7857

Jordanova, Ludmilla and Earman, John and Campbell, Keith and Kerszberg, Pierre and Myhra, Sverre and Yeo, Richard and Schacter, Daniel L and LaFollette, Hugh and Haynes, Raymond F and Morrigan, Viviane and Gaukroger, Stephen and Younis, Ray and Redding, Paul and Dowe, Phil and Lynch, Tony (1998) Reviews. Metascience, 7 (1). 181 - 230. ISSN 0815-0796

Belot, Gordon and Earman, John (1997) Chaos out of order: Quantum mechanics, the correspondence principle and chaos. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 28 (2). 147 - 182. ISSN 1355-2198

Earman, John (1996) Tolerance for spacetime singularities. Foundations of Physics, 26 (5). 623 - 640. ISSN 0015-9018

Earman, John and Rédei, Miklós (1996) Why Ergodic Theory Does Not Explain the Success of Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 47 (1). 63 - 78. ISSN 0007-0882

Earman, John (1995) Outlawing time machines: Chronology protection theorems. Erkenntnis, 42 (2). 125 - 139. ISSN 0165-0106

Earman, John (1993) Bayes, Hume, and Miracles. Faith and Philosophy, 10 (3). 293 - 310. ISSN 0739-7046

Earman, John (1993) In Defense of Laws: Reflections on Bas van Fraassen's Laws and Symmetry. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 53 (2). 413 - 419. ISSN 0031-8205

Earman, John (1993) Underdetermination, Realism, and Reason. Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 18. 19 - 38. ISSN 0363-6550

Earman, John (1991) Book review. Foundations of Physics, 21 (11). 1343 - 1346. ISSN 0015-9018

Earman, John (1990) Bayes' Bayesianism. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 21 (3). 351 - 370. ISSN 0039-3681

Earman, John (1989) OLD EVIDENCE, NEW THEORIES: TWO UNRESOLVED PROBLEMS IN BAYESIAN CONFIRMATION THEORY. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 70 (4). 323 - 340. ISSN 0279-0750

Earman, John (1989) Remarks on Relational Theories of Motion. Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 19 (1). 83 - 87. ISSN 0045-5091

Earman, John and Norton, John D (1988) Discussion: what revisions does bootstrap testing need? A reply. Philosophy of Science, 55 (2). 260 - 264. ISSN 0031-8248

Earman, John (1987) The Sap Also Rises: A Critical Examination of the Anthropic Principle. American Philosophical Quarterly, 24 (4). 307 - 317. ISSN 0003-0481

Earman, John and Norton, John (1987) What Price Spacetime Substantivalism? The Hole Story. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 38 (4). 515 - 525. ISSN 0007-0882

Earman, John (1986) WHY SPACE IS NOT A SUBSTANCE (AT LEAST NOT TO FIRST DEGREE). Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 67 (4). 225 - 244. ISSN 0279-0750

Earman, John (1985) Concepts of Projectibility and the Problems of Induction. Noûs, 19 (4). 521 - 535. ISSN 0029-4624

Earman, John and Glymour, Clark (1980) The gravitational red shift as a test of general relativity: History and analysis. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 11 (3). 175 - 214. ISSN 0039-3681

Earman, John and Glymour, Clark (1980) Relativity and Eclipses: The British Eclipse Expeditions of 1919 and Their Predecessors. Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, 11 (1). 49 - 85. ISSN 0073-2672

Earman, John (1979) Was Leibniz a Relationist? Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 4. 263 - 276. ISSN 0363-6550

Earman, John and Glymour, Clark (1978) Lost in the tensors: Einstein's struggles with covariance principles 1912–1916. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 9 (4). 251 - 278. ISSN 0039-3681

Earman, John (1978) The Universality of Laws. Philosophy of Science, 45 (2). 173 - 181. ISSN 0031-8248

Earman, John and Glymour, Clark (1978) Einstein and Hilbert: Two months in the history of general relativity. Archive for History of Exact Sciences, 19 (3). 291 - 308. ISSN 0003-9519

Earman, John (1978) Fairy tales vs an ongoing story: Ramsey's neglected argument for scientific realism. Philosophical studies : an international journal for philosophy in the analytic tradition, 33. 195 - 202. ISSN 1573-0883

Earman, John (1977) Against indeterminacy. The journal of philosophy, 74 (9). 535 - 538. ISSN 0022-362X

Earman, John (1977) How to Talk about the Topology of Time. Noûs, 11 (3). 211 - 226. ISSN 0029-4624

Earman, John (1977) Perceptions and Relations in the Monadology. Studia Leibnitiana, 9 (2). 212 - 230. ISSN 0039-3185

Earman, John (1976) Review of the cement of the universe. The Philosophical Review, 85 (3). 390 - 394. ISSN 0031-8108

Earman, John (1976) Causation. Journal of Philosophy, 73 (1). 5 - 25. ISSN 0022-362X

Earman, John (1975) Infinities, infinitesimals, and indivisibles: the leibnizian labyrinth. Studia Leibnitiana, 7 (2). 236 - 251. ISSN 0039-3185

Earman, John (1975) What is physicalism? The journal of philosophy, 72 (17). 565 - 567. ISSN 0022-362X

Earman, John (1974) An Attempt to Add a Little Direction to “The Problem of the Direction of Time”. Philosophy of Science, 41 (1). 15 - 47. ISSN 0031-8248

Earman, John (1972) Implications of causal propagation outside the null cone. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 50 (3). 222 - 237. ISSN 0004-8402

Earman, John (1972) Notes on the causal theory of time. Synthese, 24 (1/2). 74 - 83. ISSN 0039-7857

Earman, John (1972) Review of "Conceptual Foundations of Contemporary Relativity Theory" by J. Graves. The Philosophical Quarterly, 22 (89). 373 - 375. ISSN 0031-8094

Graves, John C and Earman, John (1972) Some Aspects of General Relativity and Geometrodynamics. The journal of philosophy, 69 (19). 634 - 647. ISSN 0022-362X

Earman, John (1971) Laplacian Determinism, or Is This Any Way to Run a Universe? The journal of philosophy, 68 (21). 729 - 744. ISSN 0022-362X

Earman, John (1971) Review of "An introduction to the philosophy of space and time" by Bas van Fraassen. The philosophical review, 80 (4). 516 - 522. ISSN 0031-8108

Earman, John (1970) Who's afraid of absolute space? Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 48 (3). 287 - 319. ISSN 0004-8402

Earman, John (1970) Are spatial and temporal congruence conventional? General Relativity and Gravitation, 1 (2). 143 - 157. ISSN 0001-7701

Earman, John (1970) Space-Time, or How to Solve Philosophical Problems and Dissolve Philosophical Muddles without Really Trying. The journal of philosophy. 259 - 277. ISSN 0022-362X

Earman, John (1969) The anisotropy of time. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 47 (3). 273 - 295. ISSN 0004-8402

Earman, John (1967) On Going Backward in Time. Philosophy of Science, 34 (3). 211 - 222. ISSN 0031-8248

Earman, John (1967) Irreversibility and temporal asymmetry. The journal of philosophy, 64 (18). 543 - 549. ISSN 0022-362X

Book Section

Ruetsche, Laura and Earman, John (2012) Infinitely Challenging: Pitowsky’s Subjective Interpretation and the Physics of Infinite Systems. In: Probability in Physics. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 219 - 232. ISBN 9783642213281

Earman, John (2011) Sharpening the Electromagnetic Arrow(s) of Time. In: UNSPECIFIED Oxford University Press. ISBN UNSPECIFIED

Ruetsche, Laura and Earman, John (2011) Interpreting Probabilities in Quantum Field Theory and Quantum Statistical Mechanics. In: Probabilities in Physics. Oxford University PressOxford, 263 - 290. ISBN 0199577439

Earman, John and Wüthrich, Christian (2010) Time machines. In: The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. UNSPECIFIED. ISBN UNSPECIFIED

Earman, John (2008) Chapter 10 Pruning Some Branches from “Branching Spacetimes”. In: The Ontology of Spacetime II. Elsevier, 187 - 205. ISBN UNSPECIFIED

Earman, John (2007) Aspects of determinism in modern physics. In: Philosophy of physics. Handbook of the philosophy of science / gen. eds. Dov M. Gabbay . Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1369 - 1434. ISBN 0444530029

Butterfield, Jeremy and Earman, John (2007) Introduction (of the book "Philosophy of Physics"). In: Philosophy of Physics. Handbook of the philosophy of science / gen. eds. Dov M. Gabbay . Elsevier, Amsterdam, xiii - xxii. ISBN 9780444515605

Earman, John (2006) In the beginning, at the end, and all in between: cosmological aspects of time. In: Time and history : proceedings of the 28. International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria 2005. Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society . Ontos, Frankfurt, 155 - 180. ISBN 3938793171

Earman, John (2006) Chapter 1: The Implications of General Covariance for the Ontology and Ideology of Spacetime. In: The Ontology of Spacetime. Elsevier, 3 - 23. ISBN UNSPECIFIED

Earman, John (2005) Bayes, Hume, Price, and Miracles. In: Bayes's Theorem. British Academy. ISBN UNSPECIFIED

Earman, John (2004) Determinism: What We Have Learned and What We Still Don’t Know. In: Freedom and Determinism. The MIT Press, Cambridge, 21 - 46. ISBN 0262532573

Earman, John (2003) Rough guide to spontaneous symmetry breaking. In: Symmetries in Physics. Cambridge University Press, 335 - 346. ISBN UNSPECIFIED

Earman, John (2003) Tracking down gauge: an ode to the constrained Hamiltonian formalism. In: Symmetries in Physics. Cambridge University Press, 140 - 162. ISBN UNSPECIFIED

Belot, Gordon and Earman, John (2001) Pre-Socratic quantum gravity. In: Physics Meets Philosophy at the Planck Scale. Cambridge University Press, 213 - 255. ISBN UNSPECIFIED

Belot, Gordon and Earman, John (1999) From metaphysics to physics. In: From Physics to Philosophy. Cambridge University Press, 166 - 186. ISBN UNSPECIFIED

Earman, John and Gale, Richard M (1995) Time. In: The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 803 - 806. ISBN 9780521402248

Earman, John (1995) Recent work on time travel. In: Time's Arrows Today. Cambridge University Press, 268 - 310. ISBN UNSPECIFIED

Earman, John (1994) Concepts of projectibility and the problems of induction. In: Grue!: the new riddle of induction. Open Court Publishing Company, Chicago, 97 - 115. ISBN 978-0812692198

Earman, John (1993) Carnap, Kuhn, and the Philosophy of Scientific Methodology. In: World changes Thomas Kuhn and the nature of science. MIT Press, Cambridge, 9 - 36. ISBN 0262082160

Earman, John (1993) The Cosmic Censorship Hypothesis. In: Philosophical problems of the internal and external worlds : essays on the philosophy of Adolf Grünbaum. University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, 45 - 82. ISBN 0822937387

Earman, John (1993) Einstein's Explanation of the Motion of Mercury's Perihelion. In: The attraction of gravitation: New studies in the history of general relativity. Birkhaeuser, Boston, 129 - 172. ISBN 3764336242

Earman, John (1992) Determinism in the Physical Sciences. In: Introduction to the philosophy of science. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 232 - 268. ISBN 0136633455

Earman, John (1992) The confirmation of scientific hypotheses. In: Introduction to the philosophy of science. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 42 - 103. ISBN 0136633455

Earman, John (1991) Kant, Incongruous Counterparts, and the Nature of Space and Space-Time. In: The Philosophy of Right and Left. Springer Netherlands, 131 - 149. ISBN 9789401056618

Earman, John (1991) On The Other Hand …: A Reconsideration Of Kant, Incongruent Counterparts, And Absolute Space. In: The Philosophy of Right and Left: Incongruent Counterparts and the Nature of Space. The University of Western Ontario series in philosophy of science, 46 . Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 235 - 255. ISBN 0792308441

Earman, John (1987) Locality, Nonlocality and Action at a Distance: A Skeptical Review of Some Philosophical Dogmas. In: Kelvin’s Baltimore lectures and modern theoretical physics : historical and philosophical perspectives. MIT Press, Cambridge, 449 - 490. ISBN 0262111179

Earman, John (1984) Laws of Nature: The Empiricist Challenge. In: D.M. Armstrong. D. Reidel Pub. Co., Dordrecht, 191 - 223. ISBN 9027716579

Earman, John (1983) The Nature and Recognition of Scientific Progress. In: Collected Translation of Philosophy. Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing. ISBN UNSPECIFIED

Earman, John (1983) The Rise and Fall of Empiricist Criteria of Cognitive Significance. In: Philosophical Problems in Natural Sciences. UNSPECIFIED, Beijing. ISBN UNSPECIFIED

Earman, John (1977) Till the end of time. In: Foundations of space-time theories. Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science . University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 109 - 133. ISBN 0816608075

Book

Earman, John (2000) Hume's Abject Failure: The Argument Against Miracles. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 0195127374

Earman, John (1995) Bangs, Crunches, Whimpers, and Shrieks: Singularities and Acausalities in Relativistic Spacetimes. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 019509591X

Earman, John (1992) Bayes or Bust? A Critical Examination of Bayesian Confirmation Theory. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.. ISBN 0262050463

Earman, John (1989) World Enough and Spacetime: Absolute versus Relational Theories of Space and Time. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.. ISBN 0262050404

Earman, John (1986) A primer on determinism. D. Reidel Pub. Co., Dordrecht. ISBN 9027722404

Conference or Workshop Item

Earman, John (1999) The Penrose-Hawking singularity theorems: history and implications. In: Birk presentations of the fourth conference on the and gravitation, Berlin.

Earman, John (1992) Cosmic Censorship. In: PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, 1992 - 1992.

Earman, John (1986) The Problem of irreversibility. In: PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, 1985 - 1985.

Earman, John and Glymour, Clark and Rynasiewicz, Robert (1982) On Writing the History of Special Relativity. In: PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, 1982 - 1982.

Earman, John (1980) Combining Statistical-Thermodynamics and Relativity Theory: Methodological and Foundations Problems. In: PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Volume 2: Symposia and Invited Papers, 1978 - 1978.

Earman, John (1977) Leibnizian Space-times and Leibnizian Algebras. In: Historical and philosophical dimensions of logic, methodology and philosophy of science : part 4 of the proceedings of the 5th international congress of logic, methodology and philosophy of science, 1975 - 1975, London, Ontario, Canada.