John D. Norton (norton-jd)

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Bibliography

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.
Janssen, Michel, Norton, John D., Renn, Jürgen, Sauer, Tilman and Stachel, John J., eds. 2007a. The Genesis of General Relativity. Volumes 1 and 2. Einstein’s Zurich Notebook: Introduction and Source. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 250. Dordrecht: Springer.
Janssen, Michel, Norton, John D., Renn, Jürgen, Sauer, Tilman and Stachel, John J. 2007b. “Introduction to Volumes 1 and 2: The Zurich Notebook and the Genesis of General Relativity.” in The Genesis of General Relativity. Volumes 1 and 2. Einstein’s Zurich Notebook: Introduction and Source, edited by Michel Janssen, John D. Norton, Jürgen Renn, Tilman Sauer, and John J. Stachel, pp. 7–20. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 250. Dordrecht: Springer.
Janssen, Michel, Norton, John D., Renn, Jürgen, Sauer, Tilman and Stachel, John J. 2007c. “A Commentary on the Notes on Gravity in the Zurich Notebook.” in The Genesis of General Relativity. Volumes 1 and 2. Einstein’s Zurich Notebook: Introduction and Source, edited by Michel Janssen, John D. Norton, Jürgen Renn, Tilman Sauer, and John J. Stachel, pp. 489–714. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 250. Dordrecht: Springer.
Norton, John D. 1987a. “Einstein, the Hole Argument and the Reality of Space.” in Measurement, Realism and Objectivity: Essays on Measurement in the Social and Physical Sciences, edited by John Forge, pp. 153–188. Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science n. 5. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Norton, John D. 1987b. “Comment on Krüger (1987).” 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. 288–291. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Norton, John D. 1988. “Shafer-Dempster Belief Functions. Standard Probability Measures and Limit Theorems: Do We Need a New Calculus of Belief?” Unpublished manuscript, University of Pittsburgh.
Norton, John D. 1989. “The Hole Argument.” in PSA 1988: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposium Papers, edited by Arthur I. Fine and Jarrett Leplin, pp. 56–64. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Norton, John D. 1993. “A Paradox in Newtonian Gravitation Theory.” 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. 412–420. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Norton, John D. 1998. “When the Sum of Our Expectations Fails Us: The Exchange Paradox.” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 79(1): 34–58.
Norton, John D. 1999. “The Hole Argument.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr1999/entries/spacetime-holearg/.
Norton, John D. 2000. “How We Know About Electrons.” in After Popper, Kuhn and Feyerabend. Recent Issues in Theories of Scientific Method, edited by Robert Nola and Howard Sankey, pp. 67–98. Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science n. 15. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Norton, John D. 2002. “A Paradox in Newtonian Gravitation Theory II.” in Inconsistency in Science, edited by Joke Meheus, pp. 185–196. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, doi:10.1007/978-94-017-0085-6.
Norton, John D. 2003a. “A Material Theory of Induction.” Philosophy of Science 70: 647–670.
Norton, John D. 2003b. “General Covariance, Gauge Theories, and the Kretschmann Objection.” in Symmetries in Physics: Philosophical Reflections, edited by Katherine Brading and Elena Castellani, pp. 110–123. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/cbo9780511535369.
Norton, John D. 2003c. “Causation as Folk Science.” Philosophers’ Imprint 3(4). Reprinted in Price and Corry (2007, 11–44).
Norton, John D. 2003d. “The N-Stein Family.” in Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics: Festschrift in Honour of John Stachel, pp. 55–68. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 234. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Norton, John D. 2004a. “Why Thought Experiments do not Transcendent Empiricism.” in Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Science, edited by Christopher R. Hitchcock, pp. 44–65. Contemporary Debates in Philosophy n. 2. Boston, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers.
Norton, John D. 2004b. “The Hole Argument.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2004/entries/spacetime-holearg/.
Norton, John D. 2007a. “What was Einstein’s ‘Fatal Prejudice’?” in The Genesis of General Relativity. Volumes 1 and 2. Einstein’s Zurich Notebook: Introduction and Source, edited by Michel Janssen, John D. Norton, Jürgen Renn, Tilman Sauer, and John J. Stachel, pp. 715–784. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 250. Dordrecht: Springer.
Norton, John D. 2007b. “Einstein, Nordström, and the Early Demise of Scalar, Lorentz Covariant Theories of Gravitation.” in The Genesis of General Relativity. Volumes 3 and 4. Gravitation in the Twilight of Classical Physics: Between Mechanics, Field Theory, and Astronomy, edited by Jürgen Renn and Matthias Schemmel, pp. 413–488. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 250. Dordrecht: Springer.
Norton, John D. 2007c. “Do the Causal Principles of Modern Science Contradict Causal Anti-Fundamentalism?” in Thinking about Causes. From Greek Philosophy to Modern Physics, edited by Peter K. Machamer and Gereon Wolters, pp. 222–234. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Norton, John D. 2008. “The Hole Argument.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2008/entries/spacetime-holearg/.
Norton, John D. 2010. “How Hume and Mach Helped Einstein Find Special Relativity.” in Discourse on a New Method: Reinvigorating the Marriage of History and Philosophy of Science, edited by Mary Domski and Michael Dickson, pp. 359–386. LaSalle, Illinois: Open Court Publishing Co.
Norton, John D. 2011a. “Challenges to Bayesian Confirmation Theory.” in Philosophy of Statistics, edited by Prasanta S. Bandyopadhyay and Malcolm R. Forster, pp. 391–440. Handbook of the Philosophy of Science n. 7. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers B.V.
Norton, John D. 2011b. “The Hole Argument.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2011/entries/spacetime-holearg/.
Norton, John D. 2014a. “A Material Dissolution of the Problem of Induction.” Synthese 191(4): 671–690.
Norton, John D. 2014b. “Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity and the Problems in the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies That Led Him to It.” in The Cambridge Companion to Einstein, edited by Michel Janssen and Christoph Lehner, pp. 72–102. Cambridge Companions to Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Norton, John D. 2014c. “Infinite Idealizations.” in European Philosophy of Science – Philosophy of Science in Europe and the Viennese Heritage, edited by Maria Carla Galavotti, Elisabeth Nemeth, and Friedrich Stadler, pp. 197–210. Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook n. 17. Dordrecht: Springer.
Norton, John D. 2015a. “What Can We Learn about the Ontology of Space and Time from the Theory of Relativity?” in Physical Theory. Method and Interpretation, edited by Lawrence Sklar, pp. 185–228. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195145649.001.0001.
Norton, John D. 2015b. “The Hole Argument.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2015/entries/spacetime-holearg/.
Norton, John D. 2017. “The Worst Thought Experiment.” in The Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments, edited by Michael T. Stuart, Joerg H. Yiftach Fehige, and James Robert Brown, pp. 454–468. Routledge Philosophy Companions. London: Routledge, doi:10.4324/9781315175027.
Norton, John D. 2018. “Maxwell’s Demon Does not Compute.” in Physical Perspectives on Computation, Computational Perspectives on Physics, edited by Michael E. Cuffaro and Samuel C. Fletcher, pp. 240–256. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/9781316759745.
Norton, John D. 2019. “The Hole Argument.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2019/entries/spacetime-holearg/.
Norton, John D. 2022. “The Hole Argument.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2022/entries/spacetime-holearg/.
Norton, John D., Pooley, Oliver and Read, James. 2023. “The Hole Argument.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2023/entries/spacetime-holearg/.
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.
Saunders, John Turk and Norton, John D. 1982. “Einstein, Light Signals and the \(\epsilon\)-Decision.” in What? Where? When? Why? Essays on Induction, Space and Time, Explanation, edited by Brian P. McLaughlin, pp. 101–128. Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science n. 1. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Further References

Krüger, Lorenz. 1987. “Probability as a Theoretical Concept in Physics.” 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. 273–287. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Price, Huw and Corry, Richard, eds. 2007. Causation, Physics and the Constitution of Reality: Russell’s Republic Revisited. Oxford: Oxford University Press.