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On the Common Logical Structure of Classical and Quantum Mechanics
At the onset of quantum mechanics, it was argued that the new theory would entail a rejection of classical logic. The main arguments to support this...
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Hamilton, Hamiltonian Mechanics, and Causation
I show how Sir William Rowan Hamilton’s philosophical commitments led him to a causal interpretation of classical mechanics. I argue that Hamilton’s...
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Classical Mechanics
We describe here what we mean by a “physical theory.” Actually we develop the main standard formalisms for it. There are actually three such...
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The Principle of Inertia in the History of Classical Mechanics
Making a history of the principle of inertia, as of any other principle or concept, is a complex but still possible operation. In this work it has...
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Algebraic Structures Formalizing the Logic of Quantum Mechanics Incorporating Time Dimension
As Classical Propositional Logic finds its algebraic counterpart in Boolean algebras, the logic of Quantum Mechanics, as outlined within G. Birkhoff...
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The Engineering Lens and Classical Mechanics
The importance of both cultural and scientific paradigms is discussed. These paradigms change over the course of history with the dominant paradigm...
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The Problem of Truth in Quantum Mechanics
There is a large literature on the issue of the lack of properties (i.e. accidents) in quantum mechanics (the problem of “hidden variables”) and also...
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Geometry, mechanics, and experience: a historico-philosophical musing
Euclidean geometry, statics, and classical mechanics, being in some sense the simplest physical theories based on a full-fledged mathematical...
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Underdetermination: A Realist Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics and Bohmian Mechanics
It is generally believed that two rival non-relativistic quantum theories, the realist interpretation of quantum mechanics and Bohmian mechanics, are...
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Metaphysical indeterminacy in Everettian quantum mechanics
The question of whether Everettian quantum mechanics (EQM) justifies the existence of metaphysical indeterminacy has recently come to the fore....
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Scientific explanation as ampliative, specialized embedding: the case of classical genetics
Explanations in genetics have intriguing aspects to both biologists and philosophers, and there is no account that satisfactorily elucidates such...
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Relational quantum mechanics, causal composition, and molecular structure
Franklin and Seifert (2021) argue that solving the measurement problem of quantum mechanics (QM) also answers a question central to the philosophy of...
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Newton’s Principia and Philosophical Mechanics
Newton’s Principia reconceptualizes rational mechanics and physics, and offers a novel unification of these heretofore distinct disciplines. In this...
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Indeterminacy and Non-classical Logic
This paper is a response to a challenge set by Timothy Williamson in his Contribution to this volume where he argues that, even leaving aside the...
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The Wave-Memory Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Present quantum mechanics has been a source of puzzlement since its inception in 1927. The theory has been undoubtedly successful predicting results...
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The sky is blue, and other reasons quantum mechanics is not underdetermined by evidence
I criticize the widely-defended view that the quantum measurement problem is an example of underdetermination of theory by evidence: more...
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Assessing relational quantum mechanics
Relational Quantum Mechanics (RQM) is an interpretation of quantum theory based on the idea of abolishing the notion of absolute states of systems,...
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On Multi-Time Correlations in Stochastic Mechanics
We address a long-standing criticism of the stochastic mechanics approach to quantum theory by one of its pioneers, Edward Nelson: multi-time...
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A Sound and Complete Tableaux Calculus for Reichenbach’s Quantum Mechanics Logic
In 1944 Hans Reichenbach developed a three-valued propositional logic (RQML) in order to account for certain causal anomalies in quantum mechanics....
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The information-theoretic view of quantum mechanics and the measurement problem(s)
Until recently Jeffrey Bub and Itamar Pitowsky, in the framework of an information-theoretic view of quantum mechanics, claimed first that to the...
