Abner E. Shimony (shimony-a)

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Bibliography

Baublitz, Millard and Shimony, Abner E. 1996. “Tension in Bohm’s Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.” in Bohmian Mechanics and Quantum Theory: An Appraisal, edited by James T. Cushing, Arthur I. Fine, and Sheldon Goldstein, pp. 251–264. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 184. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Bell, John S., Shimony, Abner E., Horne, Merle and Clauser, John F. 1985. “An Exchange on Local Beables.” Dialectica 39(2): 85–110.
Clauser, John F. and Shimony, Abner E. 1978. “Bell’s Theorem: Experimental Tests and Implications.” Reports on Progress in Physics 41: 1882–1927.
Myrvold, Wayne C., Genovese, Marco and Shimony, Abner E. 2019. “Bell’s Theorem.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2019/entries/bell-theorem/.
Myrvold, Wayne C., Genovese, Marco and Shimony, Abner E. 2024. “Bell’s Theorem.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2024/entries/bell-theorem/.
Shimony, Abner E. 1965. “Quantum Physics and the Philosophy of Whitehead.” in Philosophy in America, edited by Max Black, pp. 240–261. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.
Shimony, Abner E. 1970a. “Scientific Inference.” in The Nature and Function of Scientific Theories. Essays in Contemporary Science and Philosophy, edited by Robert G. Colodny, pp. 79–172. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Shimony, Abner E. 1970b. “Resolution of the Paradox.” in Zeno’s Paradoxes, edited by Wesley C. Salmon, 1st ed., pp. 1–4. Indianapolis, Indiana: Bobbs-Merrill Company Inc. Cited after the second edition, Salmon (2001).
Shimony, Abner E. 1973. “The Status of Hidden-Variable Theories.” in Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science IV: Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress in Bucharest 1971, edited by Patrick Suppes, Leon Henkin, Athanase Joja, and Gr.C. Moisil, pp. 593–602. Studies in Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics n. 74. Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Co.
Shimony, Abner E. 1975a. “Carnap on Entropy: Introduction to ‘Two Essays on Entropy’ by Rudolf Carnap.” in Rudolf Carnap, Logical Empiricist: Materials and Perspectives, edited by Jaakko Hintikka, pp. 381–396. Synthese Library n. 73. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Shimony, Abner E. 1975b. “Vindication: A Reply to Teller (1975).” in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume VI: Induction, Probability and Confirmation, edited by Grover Maxwell and Robert M. Anderson Jr., pp. 204–211. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
Shimony, Abner E. 1976. “Comments on Two Epistemological Theses of Thomas Kuhn.” in Essays in Memory of Imre Lakatos, edited by Robert S. Cohen, Paul K. Feyerabend, and Marx W. Wartofsky, pp. 569–588. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 39. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Shimony, Abner E. 1977. “Comments on the Papers of Brush (1977) and Tisza (1977).” in PSA 1976: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposia, edited by Frederick Suppe and Peter D. Asquith, pp. 609–616. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Shimony, Abner E. 1981. “Critique of the Papers of Fine (1981) and Suppes (1981).” in PSA 1980: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposium Papers, edited by Peter D. Asquith and Ronald N. Giere, pp. 572–580. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Shimony, Abner E. 1983. “Reflections on the Philosophy of Bohr, Heisenberg, and Schrödinger.” in Physics, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: Essays in Honor of Adolf Grünbaum, edited by Robert S. Cohen and Laurens [Larry] Laudan, pp. 209–222. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 76. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Shimony, Abner E. 1985. “Introduction.” Dialectica 39(2): 83–84.
Shimony, Abner E. 1987a. “The Methodology of Synthesis: Parts and Wholes in Low-Energy Physics.” in Kelvin’s Baltimore Lectures and Modern Theoretical Physics, edited by Robert H. Kargon and Peter Achinstein, pp. 399–423. Studies from the John Hopkins Center for the History and Philosophy of Science. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Shimony, Abner E. 1987b. “Introduction.” in Naturalistic Epistemology. A Symposium of Two Decades, edited by Abner E. Shimony and Debra Nails, pp. 1–16. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 100. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Shimony, Abner E. 1987c. “Integral Epistemology.” in Naturalistic Epistemology. A Symposium of Two Decades, edited by Abner E. Shimony and Debra Nails, pp. 299–320. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 100. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Shimony, Abner E. 1988. “An Adamite Derivation of the Principles of the Calculus of Probability.” in Probability and Causality. Essays in Honor of Wesley C. Salmon, edited by James H. Fetzer, pp. 79–90. Synthese Library n. 192. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Shimony, Abner E. 1989a. “The Non-Existence of a Principle of Natural Selection.” Biology and Philosophy 4(3): 255–273.
Shimony, Abner E. 1989b. “Reply to Sober (1989).” Biology and Philosophy 4(3): 281–286.
Shimony, Abner E. 1989c. “Search for a Worldview Which Can Accommodate Our Knowledge of Microphysics.” in Philosophical Consequences of Quantum Theory: Reflections on Bell’s Theorem, edited by James T. Cushing and Ernan McMullin, pp. 25–37. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press.
Shimony, Abner E. 1990. “The Theory of Natural Selection as a Null Theory.” in Statistics in Science. The Foundations of Statistical Methods in Biology, Physics and Economics, edited by Roger M. Cooke and Domenico Costantini, pp. 229–197. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 229–199. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Shimony, Abner E. 1991a. “A Tribute to John S. Bell.” in PSA 1990: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposium Papers, edited by Arthur I. Fine, Micky Forbes, and Linda Wessels, pp. 17. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Shimony, Abner E. 1991b. “Desiderata for a Modified Quantum Dynamics.” in PSA 1990: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposium Papers, edited by Arthur I. Fine, Micky Forbes, and Linda Wessels, pp. 49–59. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Shimony, Abner E. 1994a. “Empirical and Rational Components in Scientific Confirmation.” in PSA 1994: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposium Papers, edited by David L. Hull, Micky Forbes, and Richard M. Burian, pp. 146–155. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Shimony, Abner E. 1994b. “Ten Philosophical Poems.” in Artifacts, Representations & Social Practice, Essays for Marx Wartofsky, edited by Carol C. Gould and Robert S. Cohen, pp. 343–347. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 154. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Shimony, Abner E. 1995. “The Confrontation and Monadology.” in Critical Rationalism, Metaphysics and Science: Essays for Joseph Agassi, volume 1, edited by Ian C. Jarvie and Nathaniel Laor, pp. 29–32. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 161. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Shimony, Abner E. 1998a. “Comments on Leggett (1998).” in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume XVII: Quantum Measurement: Beyond Paradox, edited by Richard A. Healey and Geoffrey Hellman, pp. 23–31. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
Shimony, Abner E. 1998b. “The Relationship between Physics and Philosophy.” in Philosophies of Nature: The Human Dimension. In Celebration of Erazim Kohák, edited by Robert S. Cohen and Aflred I. Tauber, pp. 177–184. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 195. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Shimony, Abner E. 1999a. “Can the Fundamental Laws of Nature be the Results of Evolution?” in From Physics to Philosophy, edited by Jeremy Butterfield and Constantine Pagonis, pp. 208–223. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Shimony, Abner E. 1999b. “Philosophical and Experimental Perspectives on Quantum Physics (6th Vienna Circle Lecture).” in Epistemological and Experimental Perspectives on Quantum Physics, edited by Daniel M. Greenberger, Wolfgang L. Reiter, and Anton Zeilinger, pp. 1–18. Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook n. 7. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Shimony, Abner E. 2003. “On Quantum Non-Locality, Special Relativity, and Counterfactual Reasoning.” in Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics: Festschrift in Honour of John Stachel, pp. 499–522. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 234. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Shimony, Abner E. 2004. “Bell’s Theorem.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2004/entries/bell-theorem/.
Shimony, Abner E. 2009a. “Bell’s Theorem.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2009/entries/bell-theorem/.
Shimony, Abner E. 2009b. “Unfinished Work: A Bequest.” in Quantum Reality, Relativistic Causality, and Closing the Epistemic Circle. Essays in Honour of Abner Shimony, edited by Wayne C. Myrvold and Joy Christian, pp. 479–492. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 72. Dordrecht: Springer.
Shimony, Abner E. and Nails, Debra, eds. 1987. Naturalistic Epistemology. A Symposium of Two Decades. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 100. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.

Further References

Brush, Stephen G. 1977. “Statistical Mechanics and the Philosophy of Science: Some Historical Notes.” in PSA 1976: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposia, edited by Frederick Suppe and Peter D. Asquith, pp. 551–584. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Fine, Arthur I. 1981. “Correlations and Physical Locality.” in PSA 1980: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposium Papers, edited by Peter D. Asquith and Ronald N. Giere, pp. 535–562. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Leggett, Anthony J. 1998. “Macroscopic Realism: What is it, and What do We Know About It from Experiment?” in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume XVII: Quantum Measurement: Beyond Paradox, edited by Richard A. Healey and Geoffrey Hellman, pp. 1–22. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
Salmon, Wesley C., ed. 1970. Zeno’s Paradoxes. 1st ed. Indianapolis, Indiana: Bobbs-Merrill Company Inc.
Salmon, Wesley C., ed. 2001. Zeno’s Paradoxes. 2nd ed. Indianapolis, Indiana: Hackett Publishing Co. First edition: Salmon (1970).
Sober, Elliott R. 1989. “Is the Theory of Natural Selection Unprincipled? A Reply to Shimony (1989a).” Biology and Philosophy 4(3): 275–279.
Suppes, Patrick. 1981. “Causal Analysis of Hidden Variables.” in PSA 1980: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposium Papers, edited by Peter D. Asquith and Ronald N. Giere, pp. 563–571. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Teller, Paul. 1975. “Shimony’s A Priori Arguments for Tempered Personalism.” in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume VI: Induction, Probability and Confirmation, edited by Grover Maxwell and Robert M. Anderson Jr., pp. 166–203. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
Tisza, Laszlo. 1977. “The Foundations of Statistical Mechanics.” in PSA 1976: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposia, edited by Frederick Suppe and Peter D. Asquith, pp. 585–608. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.