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Tim Maudlin

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Also known as Tim William Eric Maudlin

American philosopher of science (born 1958)

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  • Philosophy of Physics
  • FILOSOFIA DE LA FISICA I
  • New Foundations for Physical Geometry
  • The metaphysics within physics
  • New Foundations For Physical Geometry The Theory Of Linear Structures

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  • Metaphysics is ontology. Ontology is the most generic study of what exists. Evidence for what exists, at least in the physical world, is provided solely by empirical research. Hence the proper object of most metaphysics is the careful analysis of our best scientific theories (and especially of fundamental physical theories) with the goal of determining what they imply about the constitution of the physical world.
  • I have often felt that whatever is of value in this book could be found in Bell's "The Theory of Local Beables" (1987, Ch. 7)... this book will have served a great purpose if it does no more than encourage people to read Bell with the care and attention that he deserves.
  • The sparks which fly when quantum theory collides with Relativity ignite conceptual brushfires of particular interest... problems about causation, time, and holism. Unfortunately much of the work... presupposes a considerable amount of familiarity with the physics. This is particularly sad since the physics is not, in most cases, very complicated.
  • The presentation of Bell's inequality needs no more than some algebra... Understanding Relativity also requires no more than algebraic manipulation... but would tax the patience of the average reader. So I have tried to present Relativity pictorially...
  • Pictures of space-time look misleadingly like pictures of space, and the novice must unlearn some of the conventions...
  • Quantum theory... formalism... uses no more than linear algebra and vector spaces. ...A particularly nice and accessible presentation of the requisite mathematics can be found in 's Quantum Mechanics and Experience (1992, Ch. 2).

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date of birth
1958-01-01
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