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Review of William L.Harper,Isaac Newton's Scientific Method
Newton scientific method gravity Principia
2016/6/15
The title and dust jacket portrait of Newton eliciting the celebrated phenomenon of colors may lead one to think this is a comprehensive work on Newton’s scientific method,including his experimental w...
The back cover text of this excellent monograph closes with a b old remark on its metho dology:“[T]he assumption that the fundamental laws of physics are simple in terms of the fundamental physical pr...
Eating Goldstone bosons in a phase transition:A critical review of Lyre's analysis of the Higgs mechanism
gauge transformations Higgs mechanism representation symmetry
2016/5/31
In this note, I briefly review Lyre’s (2008) analysis and interpretation of the Higgs mechanism. Contrary to Lyre, I maintain that, on the proper understanding of the term, the Higgs mechanism r...
Essay Review of David Malament,Topics in the Foundations of General Relativity and Newtonian Gravitation Theory
general relativity Newtonian gravitation theory
2016/5/30
Essay Review of David Malament,Topics in the Foundations of General Relativity and Newtonian Gravitation Theory.
REVIEW OF Getting Causes from Powers,by Stephen Mumford and Rani Lill Anjum
Causation powers dispositions simultaneous causation vectors
2016/5/30
In this book, Mumford and Anjum advance a theory of causation based on a metaphysics of powers. The book is for the most part lucidly written, and contains some interesting contributions: in particula...
Review of Michael Wheeler: Reconstructing the cognitive world: the next step. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005).
Michael Wheeler Phenomenology Cognitive Science
2015/7/29
Review of Michael Wheeler: Reconstructing the cognitive world: the next step. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005).
Review of Palle Yourgrau's "Gödel Meets Einstein: Time Travel in the Gödel Universe."
Gö del Universe Time Travel
2008/4/22
This is a review of Yourgrau's book, the second edition of his "The Disappearance of Time."
Review of Time and the Metaphysics of Relativity
the Metaphysics of Relativity Review of Time
2008/4/22
In his recent book Time and the Metaphysics of Relativity, William Lane Craig uses the concept of time to try to reconstruct strong conceptual links between theology, metaphysics and physics, three ve...
Machery, E., 2006, Review of A. Zilhao, ed., Evolution, Rationality and Cognition, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
Evolution cognition rationality
2008/4/15
Evolution, Rationality, and Cognition, A Cognitive Science for the Twenty-First Century, is a fine collection of essays edited by António Zilhão. Most essays are written by prominent philosophe...
Essay Review: Probability in Classical Statistical Physics
probability classical statistical mechanics
2008/4/11
Review article of Y.M. Guttmann, The Concept of Probability in Statistical Physics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999
A Critical Review of Wigner's Work on the Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Theory
Wigner Quantum theory Realism Measurement problem
2008/4/9
Excerpt from the Conclusions:
Many of Wigner’s papers on mathematical physics are great classics. Most famous is his work on group representations which is of lasting value for a proper mathematical...
Healy, Christopher C. (1993) Creating Miracles: A story of student discovery. Berkeley, California: Key Curriculum Press.
REVIEW OF THE ELECTRONIC EDITION OF THE COLLECTED PAPERS OF C. S. PEIRCE
ELECTRONIC EDITION COLLECTED PAPERS
2008/4/8
The Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, volumes 1-6 edited by Charles Hartshorne and Paul Weiss published in 1931-1935, and volumes 7-8 edited by Arthur Burks published in 1958 (Cambridge, MA:...
Review article of: Cilliers, P. (1998) Complexity and postmodernism: Understanding complex systems, London: Routledge.
complexity postmodernism neural networks representation
2008/4/1
This is a review article of Paul Cillier's 1999 book Complexity and Postmodernism. The review article is generally encouraging and constructive, although isolates a number of areas in need of c...