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- A Brief History and Philosophy of Physics - By Alan J. Slavin. Summary written to give physics students an appreciation of the background of their discipline and that philosophical principles underpinning it.
www.trentu.ca/academic/physics/depinfo/history_895.html
- Compilation of on Articles Ether (Aether) - Unfinished story of Ether (and other pages on the site, some dealing with philosophy, mysticism, history of science and some with open questions in physics)
www.magna.com.au/~prfbrown/aetherqr.htm
- Consciousness, Life and Meaning - Essay on evolution, consciousness
www.thymos.com/tat/emergenc.html
- Cosmology: Methodological Debates 1932-48 - Discusses philosophical views about cosmology in the 1930s and 1940s; from the Stanford Encyclopedia, by George Gale.
plato.stanford.edu/entries/cosmology-30s
- Digital Philosophy -- Discrete Physics - Assuming that all quantities, including space and time, are finite and discrete.
www.digitalphilosophy.org
- Epistemology and Modern Physics - Essay on the Epistemological foundations of modern physics by Moritz Schlick, founder of the Vienna Circle.
www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/schlick.htm
- Events in History of physics - Time-lines of thermodynamics, emg, symmetry .. With links to other time-lines and resources.
history.hyperjeff.net
- Experiments in Physics - Entry from the Stanford Encyclopedia.
plato.stanford.edu/entries/physics-experiment
- Holism and Nonseparability in Physics - Entry from the Stanford Encyclopedia.
plato.stanford.edu/entries/physics-holism
- Identity and Individuality in Quantum Theory - 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.
plato.stanford.edu/entries/qt-idind
- Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Crucial chapter from Kuhn's famous book outlining how sciences is forced to go through a paradigm-shift, and see the world in terms of a new theory and new concepts.
www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/kuhn.htm
- Philosophical Foundations of Physics by R. Carnap - Positivist view of Physics, which had influenced the Copenhagen Interpretation of the Quantum mechanics (CI).
www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/carnap.htm
- Philosophy and Foundations links from MIT - General + Causality + CP Violation + Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics + Spacetime Structure + Time
web.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/r/e/redingtn/www/netadv/founds.html
- Philosophy of Physics - great collection of link from Kyoto University: philosophers-physicists.
www.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~suchii/physics.index.html
- Philosophy of Science - Essays on problems, history of physics, mathematics,..
www.friesian.com/science.htm
- Physics Time-Line - From the Copernican Revolution to superstrings, a chronology of more than 500 of the greatest discoveries in natural philosophy.
www.weburbia.demon.co.uk/pg/heretic.htm
- Physics, philosophy and theology - Pope John Paul II on 300th anniversary of the publication of Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
www.its.caltech.edu/~newman/sci-cp/sci-coyne.html
- PhysicsWeb - This is Your Philosophy - Are physicists realists? - results of a poll.
physicsweb.org/article/world/15/4/2
- Quantum Physics Links - Heterogeneous collection of QM links assembled by UK academic service BUBL
bubl.ac.uk/link/q/quantumphysics.htm
- Quantum Quackery - Skeptical overview of QM and consciousness connection.
www.csicop.org/si/9701/quantum-quackery.html
- Reichenbach's Common Cause Principle - From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Frank Arntzenius.
plato.stanford.edu/entries/physics-Rpcc
- 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
www.friesian.com/penrose.htm
- Science, pseudoscience and Society - Good links: paper by Feynman on paranormal 'sciences', Sokal Affair (use of pseudo-physics in social sciences), critique of Kuhn..
www.softpanorama.org/Skeptics/index.shtml#Sociology and Ethics of Science
- 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
www.shakespeare2ndlaw.com
- Space and Time: Inertial Frames - Frames of reference relative to which motion and rest are measured; by Robert DiSalle.
plato.stanford.edu/entries/spacetime-iframes
- Symmetry in Physics - Group of motions determines the conservation laws - the fundamental principles of physics.
www.emmynoether.com
- The Bactra Reviews - This is an excellent set of reviews, not limited to physics.
www.santafe.edu/~shalizi/reviews
- The Mind of God - A review of Paul Davies' exposition of foundational philosophical issues.
dannyreviews.com/h/The_Mind_of_God.html
- The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace - Salon.com review of Margaret Wertheim's book examining the spiritual realm of non-physical space.
www.salon.com/tech/books/1999/07/15/cyberspace
- Thermodynamic Principles for the Social Sciences - Concept of Entropy, in physics, and may be beyond.
eclectic.ss.uci.edu/~drwhite/Anthro179a/principles.html
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