A Framework for Metaphysical Explanation in Physics

Publications

Non-peer reviewed articles (5)

A Minimalist Ontology of the Natural World, by Michael Esfeld and Dirk-André Deckert

Author(s): Alastair Wilson
Published in: dialectica, Forthcoming, 2020, ISSN 0012-2017
Publisher: Dialectica

Super-Humeanism: insufficiently naturalistic and insufficiently explanatory

Author(s): Alastair Wilson
Published in: Metascience, 27/3, 2018, Page(s) 427-431, ISSN 0815-0796
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1007/s11016-018-0326-y

Causation, Explanation, and the Metaphysics of Aspect, by Bradford Skow

Author(s): Alastair WIlson
Published in: Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2019, ISSN 1538-1617
Publisher: University of Notre Dame College of Arts and Letters

The Quantum Revolution in Philosophy, by Richard Healey

Author(s): Alastair Wilson
Published in: Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2018, ISSN 1538-1617
Publisher: University of Notre Dame College of Arts and Letters

Making Things Up, by Karen Bennett

Author(s): Alastair Wilson
Published in: Mind, 128/510, 2018, Page(s) 588-600, ISSN 0026-4423
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/mind/fzy047

Peer reviewed articles (6)

Breaking the explanatory circle

Author(s): Michael Townsen Hicks
Published in: Philosophical Studies, Forthcoming, 2020, Page(s) 533–557, ISSN 0031-8116
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s11098-020-01444-9

In Search of the Holy Grail: How to Reduce the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Author(s): Katie Robertson
Published in: The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Forthcoming, 2020, ISSN 0007-0882
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Asymmetry, Abstraction, and Autonomy: Justifying Coarse-Graining in Statistical Mechanics

Author(s): Katie Robertson
Published in: The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 71/2, 2018, Page(s) 547-579, ISSN 0007-0882
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/bjps/axy020

Isolation, not locality

Author(s): Heather Demarest, Michael Townsen Hicks
Published in: Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2020, ISSN 0031-8205
Publisher: International Phenomenological Society
DOI: 10.1111/phpr.12731

Stars and steam engines: To what extent do thermodynamics and statistical mechanics apply to self-gravitating systems?

Author(s): Katie Robertson
Published in: Synthese, 196/5, 2019, Page(s) 1783-1808, ISSN 0039-7857
Publisher: D. Reidel Pub. Co.
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-018-02032-5

Asymmetry, Abstraction, and Autonomy: Justifying Coarse-Graining in Statistical Mechanics

Author(s): Katie Robertson
Published in: The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2018, ISSN 0007-0882
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/bjps/axy020

Book chapters (3)

Anthropic Contingency

Author(s): Alastair Wilson
Published in: The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism, by Alastair Wilson, 2020
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Classifying Dependencies

Author(s): Alastair Wilson
Published in: The Foundation of Reality: Fundamentality, Space and Time, eds. David Glick, George Darby & Anna Marmodoro, 2020
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Explanations of and in Time

Author(s): Alastair Wilson
Published in: Philosophy Beyond Spacetime, eds. Chris Wüthrich, Baptiste Le Bihan and Nick Huggett, 2020
Publisher: Oxford University Press