Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science
Key Publications
Foundations of Physics
- Guido Bacciagaluppi, "The Role of Decoherence in Quantum Mechanics", The Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Edward N. Zalta (ed.). - Guido Bacciagaluppi, "The Statistical Interpretation according to Born and Heisenberg", in C. Lehner et al. (ed.), Proceedings of the first Meeting of the
History of Quantum Physics Project, MPIWG preprint series, in press.
Download pre-print PDF - Stephen D. Bartlett, Terry Rudolph, and Robert W. Spekkens, 'Dialogue Concerning Two Views on Quantum Coherence: Factist and Fictionist', International Journal of Quantum Information 4, 17 (2006) [arXiv:quant-ph/0507214]
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S0219749906001591 - Stephen D. Bartlett, Terry Rudolph, and Robert W. Spekkens,
'Reference frames, superselection rules, and quantum information', Reviews of Modern Physics 79, 555 (2007) [arXiv:quant-ph/0610030]
URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/RMP/v79/e555 - Huw Price, Boltzmann's time bomb. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 53 (2002) 83-119.
Download PDF - Huw Price, “On the origins of the arrow of time: why there is still a puzzle about the low entropy past.” In Christopher Hitchcock, ed., Contemporary Debates in the Philosophy of Science (Blackwell, 2004), 219-239.
Download PDF - Huw Price, “Recent work on the arrow of radiation.” In Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 37 (2006), 498-527.
Abstract: http://www.usyd.edu.au/time/price/preprints/sommerfeld-abstract.htm
PDF at the Pittsburgh PhilSci Archive: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00002216/ - Huw Price, “Recent work on the arrow of radiation.” In Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 37 (2006), 498-527.
Abstract: http://www.usyd.edu.au/time/price/preprints/sommerfeld-abstract.htm
PDF at the Pittsburgh PhilSci Archive: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00002216/ - '[[http://www.oup.co.uk/pdf/0-19-926969-6.pdf||Quantum 'Gravity Meets Structuralism: Interweaving Relations in the Foundations of Physics', D. P. Rickles and S. R. D. French.
In D. Rickles, S. French, and J. Saatsi (eds.) The Structural Foundations of Quantum Gravity, OUP, 2006. - Econophysics for philosophers. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 38(4) 2007: 948-978.
- Dean Rickles, '“A new spin on the hole argument', Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 36(3) 2005: 415-434.
- Dean Rickles, 'Interpreting quantum gravity, Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 36(4) 2005: 691-715
Decision Theory
- Colyvan, M. `Relative Expectation Theory', The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 105, No. 1 (January 2008), 37-44.
- Colyvan, M. and Steele, K. `Environmental Ethics and Decision Theory: Fellow Travellers or Bitter Enemies?', in B. Brown, K. de Laplante, and K. Peacock (eds.), Handbook of the Philosophy of Science Volume 11: Philosophy of Ecology, North Holland/Elsevier, forthcoming.
- Justus, J. 2002. 'Taking Stock of Conservation Biology: Old Problems and New Directions', Bioscience 52: 854-885.
- Steele, K., 'The Precautionary Principle: A New Approach to Public Decision-Making?', Law, Probability and Risk, 5 (2006) 19-31.