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What might be right about the causal theory of time
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; D. Reidel Publishing Company ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1977-06)
Comments on Parfit
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; D. Reidel Publishing Company ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1982-11)
Book Review: The Discovery of Dynamics. By Julian B. Barbour. Oxford University Press, New York, New York, xxiv + 746 pp., $45.00 (softcover). ISBN 0-19-513202-5
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-08)
Cause and essence
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1992-12)
Essence and causation are fundamental in metaphysics, but little is said about their relations. Some essential properties are of course causal, as it is essential to footprints to have been caused by feet. But I am interested ...
Disparate goods and Rawls' difference principle: A social choice theoretic treatment
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; D. Reidel Publishing Company ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1979-09)
Rawls' Difference Principle asserts that a basic economic structure is just if it makes the worst off people as well off as is feasible. How well off someone is is to be measured by an ‘index’ of ‘primary social goods’. ...
Models of deterministic systems
(Springer-Verlag, 1974-12)
The definition of “model of a system” in terms of a homomorphism of the states of the system is evaluated and an alternative definition in terms of sequence generators is proposed. Sequence generators are finite graphs ...
A Novel Interpretation of the Lorentz Transformations (Slide Set)
(2019-03-04)
While 'interpretations of a theory' are most commonly associated with quantum mechanics, they can become important in other branches of physics as well. Here we present a novel interpretation of the Lorentz Transformations ...
Dimensionality in Physics
(2019-01-24)
This paper is the first of a two-part series which re-interprets relativistic length contraction and time dilation in terms of concepts argued to be more fundamental, broadly construed to mean: concepts which point to the ...
Causes as explanations: A critique
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; D. Reidel Publishing Company ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1981-12)
This paper offers a critique of the view that causation can be analyzed in terms of explanation. In particular, the following points are argued: (1) a genuine explanatory analysis of causation must make use of a fully ...
A Novel Framework for Interpreting Quantum Mechanics
(European Science Foundation, 2012-04-25)