Virtually all known laws of physics are invariant under the CPT transformation — that is, the combined operations of Charge conjugation (C), Parity or “mirror flipping” (P), and Time reversal…
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Four 1975 Lectures by Paul Dirac
Slobodan Perovic (via Chris Joas) pointed this gem out to me. Four wonderful lectures given by Paul Dirac in 1975, on various topics in the foundations of quantum theory and…
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Dear academic publishers: your business model runs completely counter to the aims of the academic community, for this reason: academic publishing is not like commercial publishing. Stop conflating the two.…
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Not Elsevier Elsevier Journal Publisher American Philosophical Quarterly University of Illinois Press Analysis Oxford University Press Australasian Journal of Philosophy Taylor & Francis (Routledge) Biology and Philosophy Springer Verlag British…
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In a letter to Chisholm, Wilfred Sellars wrote: Thus, while I agree with you that‘. . .’ means – – – is not constructable in Rylean terms (‘Behaviorese,’ I have…
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