Assesses the metaphysical implications of quantum theory by considering the impact of the theory on our understanding of objects as individuals with well defined identity conditions. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Steven French.
(Added: Thu Jan 01 2004) ID 117593
Collection of essays, not always orthodox, but always lucid, on historical and important current issues in mathematics and physics.
(Added: Thu Jan 01 2004) ID 117613
Review of "The Emperor's New Mind", by Roger Penrose
His exploration is so much more serious philosophically than almost anything that has been done since Einstein and Schrodinger
(Added: Thu Jan 01 2004) ID 117600
Good links: paper by Feynman on paranormal 'sciences', Sokal Affair (use of pseudo-physics in social sciences), critique of Kuhn..
(Added: Thu Jan 01 2004) ID 117596
Shakespeare and Thermodynamics - Dam the Second Law!
What the second law of thermodynamics is all about, and how it is constantly 'dammed' or blocked by activation energy
(Added: Thu Jan 01 2004) ID 117606