John S. Earman (earman-js)

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Bibliography

Belot, Gordon and Earman, John S. 1999. “From Metaphysics to Physics.” in From Physics to Philosophy, edited by Jeremy Butterfield and Constantine Pagonis, pp. 166–186. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Belot, Gordon and Earman, John S. 2001. “Pre-Socratic Quantum Gravity.” in Physics Meets Philosophy at the Planck Scale: Contemporary Theories in Quantum Gravity, edited by Craig Callender and Nick Huggett, pp. 213–255. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Butterfield, Jeremy and Earman, John S., eds. 2007a. Philosophy of Physics. Part A. Handbook of the Philosophy of Science n. 2a. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers B.V.
Butterfield, Jeremy and Earman, John S., eds. 2007b. Philosophy of Physics. Part B. Handbook of the Philosophy of Science n. 2b. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers B.V.
Butterfield, Jeremy and Earman, John S. 2007c. “Introduction.” in Philosophy of Physics. Part A, edited by Jeremy Butterfield and John S. Earman, pp. xiii–xxii. Handbook of the Philosophy of Science n. 2a. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers B.V.
Earman, John S. 1970. “Who’s Afraid of Absolute Space?” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 48(3): 287–319, doi:10.1080/00048407012341291.
Earman, John S. 1971a. “Laplacian Determinism, or Is This Any Way to Run a Universe?” The Journal of Philosophy 68(21): 729–745.
Earman, John S. 1971b. “Kant, Incongruous Counterparts, and the Nature of Space and Space-Time.” Ratio 13: 1–18. Reprinted in Van Cleve and Frederick (1991, 131–150).
Earman, John S. 1972. “Notes on the Causal Theory of Time.” Synthese 24(1-2): 74–86, doi:10.1007/bf00540142.
Earman, John S. 1975. “Infinities, Infinitesimals, and Indivisibles: The Leibnizian Labyrinth.” Studia Leibnitiana 7(2): 236–251.
Earman, John S. 1976. “Causation: A Matter of Life and Death.” The Journal of Philosophy 73(18): 5–25.
Earman, John S. 1977a. “Perceptions and Relations in the Monadology.” Studia Leibnitiana 9(2): 212–230.
Earman, John S. 1977b. “Till the End of Time.” in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume VIII: Foundations of Space-Time Theories, edited by John S. Earman, Clark N. Glymour, and John J. Stachel, pp. 109–133. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
Earman, John S. 1977c. “Leibnizian Space-Times and Leibnizian Algebras.” in Historical and Philosophical Dimensions of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. Part Four of the Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, London, Ontario, Canada, 1975, edited by Robert E. Butts and Jaakko Hintikka, pp. 93–112. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 12. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Earman, John S. 1979. “Was Leibniz a Relationist?” in Midwest Studies in Philosophy 4: Studies in Metaphysics, edited by Peter A. French, Theodore E. Uehling Jr., and Howard K. Wettstein, pp. 263–276. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
Earman, John S. 1981. “Combining Statistical Thermodynamics and Relativity Theory: Methodological and Foundations Problems.” in PSA 1978: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposium Papers, edited by Peter D. Asquith and Ian Hacking, pp. 157–185. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Earman, John S., ed. 1983. Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume X: Testing Scientific Theories. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
Earman, John S. 1984. “Laws of Nature: The Empiricist Challenge.” in D.M. Armstrong, edited by Radu J. Bogdan, pp. 191–224. Profiles n. 4. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Earman, John S. 1985. “Concepts of Projectibility and the Problems of Induction.” Noûs 19(4): 521–535. Reprinted in Savage and Anderson (1989, 220–233) and in Stalker (1994, 97–116).
Earman, John S. 1986. A Primer on Determinism. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 29. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Earman, John S. 1987a. “Locality, Nonlocality, and Action at a Distance: A Skeptical Review of Some Philosophical Dogmas.” in Kelvin’s Baltimore Lectures and Modern Theoretical Physics, edited by Robert H. Kargon and Peter Achinstein, pp. 449–490. Studies from the John Hopkins Center for the History and Philosophy of Science. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Earman, John S. 1987b. “The Problem of Irreversibility.” in PSA 1986: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposium Papers, edited by Arthur I. Fine and Peter K. Machamer, pp. 226–233. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Earman, John S. 1989. World Enough and Space-Time: Absolute versus Relational Theories of Space and Time. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Earman, John S., ed. 1992a. Inference, Explanation and Other Philosophical Frustrations. Berkeley, California: University of California Press.
Earman, John S. 1992b. Bayes or Bust: A Critical Examination of Confirmation Theory. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Earman, John S. 1993a. “In Defense of Laws: Reflections on Bas Van Fraassen’s Laws and Symmetry.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 53: 413–419.
Earman, John S. 1993b. “Underdetermination, Realism, and Reason.” in Midwest Studies in Philosophy 18: Philosophy of Science, edited by Peter A. French, Theodore E. Uehling Jr., and Howard K. Wettstein, pp. 19–38. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press.
Earman, John S. 1993c. “Cosmic Censorship.” in PSA 1992: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposium Papers, edited by David L. Hull, Micky Forbes, and Kathleen Okruhlik, pp. 171–180. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Earman, John S. 1993d. “The Cosmic Censorship Hypothesis.” in Philosophical Problems of the Internal and External Worlds. Essays on the Philosophy of Adolf Grünbaum, edited by John S. Earman, Allen I. Janis, Gerald J. Massey, and Nicholas Rescher, pp. 45–82. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Earman, John S. 1993e. “Carnap, Kuhn, and the Philosophy of Scientific Methodology.” in World Changes – T. Kuhn and the Nature of Science, edited by Paul Horwich, pp. 9–36. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Earman, John S. 1995a. Bangs, Crunches, Whimpers, and Shrieks: Singularities and Acausalities in Relativistic Spacetime. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Earman, John S. 1995b. “Recent Work on Time Travel.” in Time’s Arrow Today. Recent Physical and Philosophical Work on the Direction of Time, edited by Steven F. Savitt, pp. 268–310. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Earman, John S. 2000. Hume’s Abject Failure – the Argument Against Miracles. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/0195127382.001.0001.
Earman, John S. 2002a. “Gauge Matters.” Philosophy of Science 69: S209–220.
Earman, John S. 2002b. “Thoroughly Modern McTaggart. Or what McTaggart would have said if he had Learned General Relativity Theory.” Philosophers’ Imprint 2(3).
Earman, John S. 2003a. “Tracking down Gauge: An Ode to the Constrained Hamiltonian Formalism.” in Symmetries in Physics: Philosophical Reflections, edited by Katherine Brading and Elena Castellani, pp. 140–162. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/cbo9780511535369.
Earman, John S. 2003b. “Rough Guide to Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking.” in Symmetries in Physics: Philosophical Reflections, edited by Katherine Brading and Elena Castellani, pp. 335–346. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/cbo9780511535369.
Earman, John S. 2004. “Determinism: What We Have Learned and What We Still Don’t Know.” in Freedom and Determinism, edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O’Rourke, and David Shier, pp. 21–46. Topics in Contemporary Philosophy n. 1. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Earman, John S. 2006a. “The Implications of General Covariance for the Ontology and Ideology of Spacetime.” in The Ontology of Spacetime, edited by Dennis Dieks, pp. 3–23. Philosophy and the Foundations of Physics Series n. 1. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers B.V.
Earman, John S. 2006b. “In the Beginning, At the End, and All in Between: Cosmological Aspects of Time.” in Proceedings of the 28th International Wittgenstein Symposium: Time and History, edited by Friedrich Stadler and Michael Stöltzner, pp. 155–180. Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society (new series) n. 1. Heusenstamm b. Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag.
Earman, John S. 2007. “Aspects of Determinism in Modern Physics.” in Philosophy of Physics. Part B, edited by Jeremy Butterfield and John S. Earman, pp. 1369–1434. Handbook of the Philosophy of Science n. 2b. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers B.V.
Earman, John S. 2008. “Pruning Some Branches from Branching Spacetimes.” in The Ontology of Spacetime, edited by Dennis Dieks, pp. 187–205. Philosophy and the Foundations of Physics Series n. 2. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers B.V.
Earman, John S. 2011. “Sharpening the Electromagnetic Arrow(s) of Time.” in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Time, edited by Craig Callender, pp. 485–527. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199298204.001.0001.
Earman, John S. 2015. “Some Puzzles and Unresolved Issues About Quantum Entanglement.” Erkenntnis 80(2): 303–337.
Earman, John S., Glymour, Clark N. and Rynasiewicz, Robert. 1983. “On Writing the History of Special Relativity.” in PSA 1982: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposia and Invited Papers, edited by Peter D. Asquith and Thomas Nickles, pp. 403–416. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Earman, John S., Glymour, Clark N. and Stachel, John J., eds. 1977. Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume VIII: Foundations of Space-Time Theories. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
Earman, John S., Janis, Allen I., Massey, Gerald J. and Rescher, Nicholas, eds. 1993. Philosophical Problems of the Internal and External Worlds. Essays on the Philosophy of Adolf Grünbaum. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Earman, John S. and Norton, John D. 1988. “What Price Spacetime Substantivalism? The Hole Story.” The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 38: 515–525.
Earman, John S. and Norton, John D. 1996. “Infinite Pains: the Trouble with Supertasks.” in Benacerraf and His Critics, edited by Adam Morton and Stephen P. Stich, pp. 231–261. Philosophers and Their Critics. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Earman, John S. and Norton, John D., eds. 1997. The Cosmos of Science: Essays of Exploration. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Earman, John S. and Roberts, John T. 1999. “Ceteris Paribus, There is No Problem of Provisos.” Synthese 118: 439–478.
Earman, John S. and Roberts, John T. 2005a. “Contact with the Nomic: A Challenge for Deniers of Humean Supervenience about Laws of Nature Part I: Humean Supervenience.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 71(1): 1–22.
Earman, John S. and Roberts, John T. 2005b. “Contact with the Nomic: A Challenge for Deniers of Humean Supervenience about Laws of Nature Part II: The Epistemological Argument for Humean Supervenience.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 71(2): 253–286, doi:10.1111/j.1933-1592.2005.tb00449.x.
Earman, John S. and Wüthrich, Christian. 2004. “Time Machines.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2004/entries/time-machine/.
Earman, John S. and Wüthrich, Christian. 2010. “Time Machines.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2010/entries/time-machine/.
Earman, John S., Wüthrich, Christian and Manchak, John Byron. 2016. “Time Machines.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2016/entries/time-machine/.
Earman, John S., Wüthrich, Christian and Manchak, John Byron. 2020. “Time Machines.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2020/entries/time-machine/.
Earman, John S., Wüthrich, Christian and Manchak, John Byron. 2024. “Time Machines.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2024/entries/time-machine/.
Ruetsche, Laura and Earman, John S. 2011. “Interpreting Probabilities in Quantum Field Theory and Quantum Statistical Mechanics.” in Probabilities in Physics, edited by Claus Beisbart and Stephan Hartmann, pp. 263–292. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199577439.001.0001.
Salmon, Merrilee H., Earman, John S., Glymour, Clark N., Lennox, James G., Machamer, Peter K., McGuire, James E., Norton, John D., Salmon, Wesley C. and Schaffner, Kenneth F., eds. 1999. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science. Indianapolis, Indiana: Hackett Publishing Co.

Further References

Savage, C. Wade and Anderson, Curtis Anthony, eds. 1989. Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume XII: Rereading Russell: Essays on Bertrand Russell’s Metaphysics and Epistemology. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
Stalker, Douglas F., ed. 1994. Grue! LaSalle, Illinois: Open Court Publishing Co.
Van Cleve, James and Frederick, Robert E., eds. 1991. The Philosophy of Right and Left. Incongruent Counterparts and the Nature of Space. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 46. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.