The Past Hypothesis Meets Gravity (2008)
The Past Hypothesis is the claim that the Boltzmann entropy of the universe was extremely low when the universe began. Can we make sense of this claim when *classical* gravitation is included in the...
Finding 'Real' Time in Quantum Mechanics (2007)
Many believe that quantum mechanics makes the world hospitable to the tensed theory of time. Quantum mechanics is said to rescue the significance of the present moment, the mutability of the future...
It’s time detensers stand up for themselves and challenge the claim that experience favors tenses. After arguing that there is no "experience of the present" as contemporary metaphysicians conceive...
The Emergence and Interpretation of Probability in Bohmian Mechanics (2007)
A persistent question about the deBroglie–Bohm interpretation of quantum mechanics concerns the understanding of Born’s rule in the theory. Where do the quantum mechanical probabilities come...
Music and foreign language pronunciation (2007)
This paper examines the relationship between musical training and success in foreign language pronunciation. I present the results of two studies, one involving native speakers of English learning...
The Subjectivity of the Present (2006)
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The Subjectivity of the Present (2006)
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Time is the Simplest (and Strongest) Thing (2006)
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Time is the Simplest (and Strongest) Thing (2006)
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Time is the Simplest (and Strongest) Thing (2006)
Contains one audio recording (mp3) and one set of presentation slides
The Subjectivity of the Present (2006)
Contains one audio recording (mp3) and one set of presentation slides
Time is the Simplest (and Strongest) Thing (2006)
Contains one audio recording (mp3) and one set of presentation slides
The Subjectivity of the Present (2006)
Contains one audio recording (mp3) and one set of presentation slides
An Answer in Search of a Question: 'Proofs' of the Tri-Dimensionality of Space (2005)
From Kant’s first published work to recent articles in the physics literature, philosophers and physicists have long sought an answer to the question, why does space have three dimensions. In this...
There Is No Special Problem About Scientific Representation (2005)
Callender, Craig, Cohen, Jonathan
In recent years, philosophers of science have devoted considerable attention to questions about scientific models, and particularly to the issue of how models can represent the world. We propose that...
Measures, Explanations and the Past: Should 'Special' Initial Conditions be Explained? (2004)
For the generalizations of thermodynamics to obtain, it appears that a very “special” initial condition of the universe is required. Is this initial condition itself in need of explanation? I...
A Collision Between Dynamics and Thermodynamics (2004)
Abstract: Philosophers of science have found the literature surrounding Maxwell's demon deeply problematic. This paper explains why, summarizing various philosophical complaints and adding to them....
Why Be a Fundamentalist: Reply to Schaffer (2001)
This is my commentary on Jonathan Schaffer's paper "Evidence for Fundamentality?; both the paper and comments were presented at the Pacific APA, San Francisco, March 2001. Schaffer argues against...
Physics Meets Philosophy at the Planck Scale (2001)
Callender, Craig, Huggett, Nicholas
This is the table of contents and first chapter of Physics Meets Philosophy at the Planck Scale (Cambridge University Press, 2001), edited by Craig Callender and Nick Huggett. The chapter discusses...
Taking Thermodynamics Too Seriously (2001)
This paper discusses the mistake of understanding the laws and concepts of thermodynamics too literally in the foundations of statistical mechanics. Arguing that this error is still pervasive (though...
Callender, Craig, Edney, Ralph (il.), Appignanesi, Richard (ed.)
Obra de carácter introductorio en que se revisan las diversas concepciones que sobre el tiempo (y su relación con el espacio) se han tenido a lo largo de la historia de la filosofía y la ciencia,...
Callender, Craig, Edney, Ralph (il.), Appignanesi, Richard (ed.)
Obra de carácter introductorio en que se revisan las diversas concepciones que sobre el tiempo (y su relación con el espacio) se han tenido a lo largo de la historia de la filosofía y la ciencia,...
Is Time Handed in a Quantum World? (2000)
This paper considers the possibility that nonrelativistic quantum mechanics tells us that Nature cares about time reversal. In a classical world we have a fundamentally reversible world that appears...