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Synthese 114 (3):373-404 (1998)

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  1. Reasons and Persons.Derek Parfit - 1984 - Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.
    Challenging, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity, Parfit claims that we have a false view about our own nature. It is often rational to act against our own best interersts, he argues, and most of us have moral views that are self-defeating. We often act wrongly, although we know there will be no one with serious grounds for complaint, and when we consider future generations it is very hard to avoid conclusions (...)
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  • Reasons and Persons.Joseph Margolis - 1984 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 47 (2):311-327.
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  • (1 other version)Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science.Hermann Weyl - 1949 - Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. Edited by Olaf Helmer-Hirschberg & Frank Wilczek.
    This is a book that no one but Weyl could have written--and, indeed, no one has written anything quite like it since.
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  • (1 other version)Survival and identity.David Lewis - 1976 - In Amélie Rorty, The Identities of Persons. University of California Press. pp. 17-40.
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  • Interpreting the many-worlds interpretation.David Albert & Barry Loewer - 1988 - Synthese 77 (November):195-213.
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  • A Remark About the Relationship Between Relativity Theory and Idealistic Philosophy.Paul Arthur Schilpp & Kurt Gödel - 1949 - Harper & Row.
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  • (1 other version)Physics and Chance.Lawrence Sklar - 1995 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 46 (1):145-149.
    Statistical mechanics is one of the crucial fundamental theories of physics, and in his new book Lawrence Sklar, one of the pre-eminent philosophers of physics, offers a comprehensive, non-technical introduction to that theory and to attempts to understand its foundational elements. Among the topics treated in detail are: probability and statistical explanation, the basic issues in both equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, the role of cosmology, the reduction of thermodynamics to statistical mechanics, and the alleged foundation of the very notion (...)
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  • Are probabilism and special relativity incompatible?Nicholas Maxwell - 1985 - Philosophy of Science 52 (1):23-43.
    In this paper I expound an argument which seems to establish that probabilism and special relativity are incompatible. I examine the argument critically, and consider its implications for interpretative problems of quantum theory, and for theoretical physics as a whole.
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  • (1 other version)Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity: Aristotelian Society Series.Tim Maudlin & Lawrence Sklar - 1994 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 45 (3):933-934.
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  • The Nature of Existence.R. F. Alfred Hoernle, John McTaggart & Ellis McTaggart - 1921 - Philosophical Review 32 (1):79.
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  • The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.B. DeWitt & N. Graham (eds.) - 1973 - Princeton UP.
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  • (1 other version)Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science.Hermann Weyl & Olaf Helmer - 1951 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 2 (7):257-260.
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  • (2 other versions)The Nature of Existence.John Mctaggart, Ellis Mctaggart & C. D. Broad - 1928 - Mind 37 (146):221-233.
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  • Time, quantum mechanics, and decoherence.Simon Saunders - 1995 - Synthese 102 (2):235 - 266.
    State-reduction and the notion of actuality are compared to passage through time and the notion of the present; already in classical relativity the latter give rise to difficulties. The solution proposed here is to treat both tense and value-definiteness as relational properties or facts as relations; likewise the notions of change and probability. In both cases essential characteristics are absent: temporal relations are tenselessly true; probabilistic relations are deterministically true. The basic ideas go back to Everett, although the technical development (...)
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  • (1 other version)”Relative state’ formulation of quantum mechanics.Hugh Everett - 1957 - Reviews of Modern Physics 29 (3):454--462.
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  • (1 other version)Creating Modern Probability: Its Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy in Historical Perspective.Lawrence Sklar & Jan von Plato - 1994 - Journal of Philosophy 91 (11):622.
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  • The replacement of time.Steven F. Savitt - 1994 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 72 (4):463 – 474.
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  • Time, quantum mechanics, and tense.Simon Saunders - 1996 - Synthese 107 (1):19 - 53.
    The relational approach to tense holds that the now, passage, and becoming are to be understood in terms of relations between events. The debate over the adequacy of this framework is illustrated by a comparative study of the sense in which physical theories, (in)deterministic and (non)relativistic, can lend expression to the metaphysics at issue. The objective is not to settle the matter, but to clarify the nature of this metaphysics and to establish that the same issues are at stake in (...)
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  • The measurement of relative frequency.Neill Graham - 1973 - In B. DeWitt & N. Graham, The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. Princeton UP. pp. 1--229.
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  • Creating Modern Probability: Its Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy in Historical Perspective.Jan von Plato - 1994 - Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
    This is the only book to chart the history and development of modern probability theory. It shows how in the first thirty years of this century probability theory became a mathematical science. The author also traces the development of probabilistic concepts and theories in statistical and quantum physics. There are chapters dealing with chance phenomena, as well as the main mathematical theories of today, together with their foundational and philosophical problems. Among the theorists whose work is treated at some length (...)
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  • Comment on Lockwood.Barry Loewer - 1996 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 47 (2):229-232.
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  • Subtle Is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein.Abraham Pais - 1986 - Science and Society 50 (1):117-121.
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  • The theory of the universal wave function.Hugh Everett Iii - 1973 - In B. DeWitt & N. Graham, The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. Princeton UP. pp. 3.
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  • Comment on Lockwood.Simon Saunders - 1996 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 47 (2):241-248.
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  • The Theory of the Universal Wavefunction.Hugh Everett - 1973 - In B. DeWitt & N. Graham, The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. Princeton UP.
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