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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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Fluid Mechanics for Philosophers, or Which Solutions Do You Want for Navier-Stokes?
Of the seven $1,000,000 Clay Millennium Prize Problems in mathematics, just one would immediately appeal to Leonard Euler. That is “Existence and...
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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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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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Mechanics in Renaissance Science
The modern science of mechanics – a mathematical discipline – appeared during the sixteenth century at the crossroads of the increasing...
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Working Toward Solutions in Fluid Dynamics and Astrophysics What the Equations Don’t Say
This book focuses on continuing the long-standing productive dialogue between physical science and the philosophy of science. Researchers and readers...
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The preferred basis problem in the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics: why decoherence does not solve it
We start by very briefly describing the measurement problem in quantum mechanics and its solution by the Many Worlds Interpretation (MWI). We then...
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How the History of Thermodynamics Informs the Hidden Variables Debate in Quantum Mechanics
The main purpose of this paper is to inform all those interested in quantum foundations about several very striking historical parallels between...
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What can bouncing oil droplets tell us about quantum mechanics?
A recent series of experiments have demonstrated that a classical fluid mechanical system, constituted by an oil droplet bouncing on a vibrating...
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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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Mechanics in Renaissance Science
The modern science of mechanics – a mathematical discipline – appeared during the sixteenth century at the crossroads of the increasing...
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An Unruly Victim Tamed. What Things Are Done to Values?
This chapter, “An Unruly Victim Tamed” explores the dynamic nature of human values and their susceptibility to external influences. Drawing a...
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Fishbones, Wheels, Eyes, and Butterflies: Heuristic Structural Reasoning in the Search for Solutions to the Navier-Stokes Equations
Arguments for the effectiveness, and even the indispensability, of mathematics in scientific explanation rely on the claim that mathematics is...
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Beyond Newton, Leibniz and Kant: Insufficient Foundations, 1687–1786
Early modern foundations for mechanics came in two kinds, nomic and material. I examine here the dynamical laws and pictures of matter given...
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Distinguishing two (unsound) arguments for quantum social science
Quantum mechanics supersedes classical mechanics, and social science, some argue, should be responsive to this change. This paper finds that two...
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The State of Play in Hydrodynamic Quantum Analogs
We describe the manner in which the physical picture emerging from hydrodynamic quantum analogs (HQAs) may serve to resolve some of the longstanding...
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Completing the Quantum Ontology with the Electromagnetic Zero-Point Field
This text begins with a series of critical considerations on the initial interpretation of quantum phenomena observed in atomic systems. The...