Lawrence Sklar (sklar-l)

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Bibliography

Sklar, Lawrence. 1974a. Space, Time, and Spacetime. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, doi:10.2307/jj.5232979.
Sklar, Lawrence. 1974b. “Incongruous Counterparts, Intrinsic Features, and the Substantiviality of Space.” The Journal of Philosophy 71: 277–290. Reprinted in Van Cleve and Frederick (1991, 173–186).
Sklar, Lawrence. 1974c. “The Evolution of the Problem of the Unity of Science.” in Philosophical Foundations of Science. Proceedings of Section L, 1969, American Association for the Advancement of Science, edited by Raymond J. Seeger and Robert S. Cohen, pp. 535–545. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 11. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Sklar, Lawrence. 1976. “Thermodynamics, Statistical Mechanics and the Complexity of Reductions.” in PSA 1974: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, edited by Robert S. Cohen, Clifford A. Hooker, Alex C. Michalos, and James W. van Evra, pp. 15–32. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 32. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Sklar, Lawrence. 1977. “Facts, Conventions, and Assumptions in the Theory of Space-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. 206–274. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
Sklar, Lawrence. 1979. “What Might be Right about the Causal Theory of Time.” in Hans Reichenbach: Logical Empiricist, edited by Wesley C. Salmon, pp. 367–383. Synthese Library n. 132. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Sklar, Lawrence. 1981a. “Time, Reality and Relativity.” in Reduction, Time, and Reality. Studies in the Philosophy of the Natural Sciences, edited by Richard A. Healey, pp. 129–142. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Sklar, Lawrence. 1981b. “Comments [on Earman (1981) and Malament].” 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. 186–193. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Sklar, Lawrence. 1982a. “Prospects for a Causal Theory of Space-Time.” in Space, Time and Causality, edited by Richard Swinburne, pp. 45–62. Synthese Library n. 157. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Sklar, Lawrence. 1982b. “Saving the Noumena.” Philosophical Topics 13(1): 89–110.
Sklar, Lawrence. 1985a. Philosophy and Spacetime Physics. Berkeley, California: University of California Press.
Sklar, Lawrence. 1985b. “Comments on Field (1985).” in PSA 1984: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposium Papers, edited by Peter D. Asquith and Philip Kitcher, pp. 101–105. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Sklar, Lawrence. 1985c. “Comments on Malament’s ‘ “Time Travel” in the Gödel Universe’ [on Malament (1985)].” in PSA 1984: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposium Papers, edited by Peter D. Asquith and Philip Kitcher, pp. 106–110. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Sklar, Lawrence. 1987. “The Elusive Object of Desire: In Pursuit of the Kinetic Equations and the Second Law.” 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. 209–225. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association. Reprinted in Savitt (1995, 191–216).
Sklar, Lawrence. 1989. “Ultimate Explanations: Comments on Tipler (1989).” 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. 49–55. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Sklar, Lawrence. 1990a. “Invidious Contrasts within Theories.” in Meaning and Method – Essays in Honour of Hilary Putnam, edited by George Boolos, pp. 197–212. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Sklar, Lawrence. 1990b. “Foundational Physics and Empiricist Critique.” in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume XIV: Scientific Theories, edited by C. Wade Savage, pp. 136–157. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
Sklar, Lawrence. 1990c. “Real Quantities and Their Sensible Measures.” in Philosophical Perspectives on Newtonian Science, edited by Phillip Bricker and R. I. G. Hughes, pp. 57–76. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Sklar, Lawrence. 1991a. “How Free Are Initial Conditions?” 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. 551–564. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Sklar, Lawrence. 1991b. “Quantum Physics.” in Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology, edited by Hans Burkhardt and Barry Smith. Analytica: Investigations in Logic, Ontology, and the Philosophy of Language n. 2. München: Philosophia Verlag.
Sklar, Lawrence. 1991c. “Space-Time.” in Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology, edited by Hans Burkhardt and Barry Smith. Analytica: Investigations in Logic, Ontology, and the Philosophy of Language n. 2. München: Philosophia Verlag.
Sklar, Lawrence. 1992. Philosophy of Physics. Dimensions of Philosophy Series. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.
Sklar, Lawrence. 1993. “Idealization and Explanation: A Case Study from Statistical Mechanics.” in Midwest Studies in Philosophy 18: Philosophy of Science, edited by Peter A. French, Theodore E. Uehling Jr., and Howard K. Wettstein, pp. 258–270. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press.
Sklar, Lawrence. 1995a. Physics and Chance: Philosophical Issues in the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Sklar, Lawrence. 1995b. “Time in Experience and in Theoretical Description of the World.” in Time’s Arrow Today. Recent Physical and Philosophical Work on the Direction of Time, edited by Steven F. Savitt, pp. 217–229. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Sklar, Lawrence. 1998. “The Language of Nature Is Mathematics: But Which Mathematics? And What Nature?” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 98: 241–261.
Sklar, Lawrence. 2000a. Theory and Truth. Philosophical Critique within Foundational Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/0199251576.001.0001.
Sklar, Lawrence. 2000b. “Topology Versus Measure in Statistical Mechanics.” The Monist 83(2): 258–273.
Sklar, Lawrence. 2001a. “Philosophy of Statistical Mechanics.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2001/entries/statphys-statmech/.
Sklar, Lawrence. 2001b. “Review of Smith (1998).” The Philosophical Review 110(2): 289–290.
Sklar, Lawrence. 2001c. “Convention, Role of.” in A Companion to the Philosophy of Science, edited by William H. Newton-Smith, pp. 56–64. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, doi:10.1002/9781405164481.
Sklar, Lawrence. 2001d. “Space, Time, and Relativity.” in A Companion to the Philosophy of Science, edited by William H. Newton-Smith, pp. 461–469. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, doi:10.1002/9781405164481.
Sklar, Lawrence. 2002. “Physics, Metaphysics, and Method in Newton’s Dynamics.” in The Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics, edited by Richard M. Gale, pp. 1–18. Blackwell Philosophy Guides. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, doi:10.1002/9780470998984.
Sklar, Lawrence. 2003. “Interpreting Theories: The Case of Statistical Mechanics.” in Philosophy of Science Today, edited by Peter Clark and Katherine Hawley, pp. 276–290. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Sklar, Lawrence. 2005a. “Philosophy of Statistical Mechanics.” in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Donald M. Borchert, 2nd ed. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.
Sklar, Lawrence. 2005b. “Physics and the Direction of Time.” in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Donald M. Borchert, 2nd ed. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.
Sklar, Lawrence. 2006. “Why does the Standard Measure Work in Statistical Mechanics?” in Interactions. Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy, 1860–1930, edited by Vincent F. Hendricks, Klaus Frovin Jørgensen, Jesper Lützen, and Stig Andur Pedersen, pp. 307–320. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 251. Dordrecht: Springer.
Sklar, Lawrence. 2009a. “Philosophy of Statistical Mechanics.” 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/statphys-statmech/.
Sklar, Lawrence. 2009b. “Causation in Statistical Mechanics.” in The Oxford Handbook of Causation, edited by Helen Beebee, Christopher R. Hitchcock, and Peter Menzies, pp. 661–672. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199279739.001.0001.
Sklar, Lawrence. 2011. “Time in Classical Dynamics.” in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Time, edited by Craig Callender, pp. 571–576. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199298204.001.0001.
Sklar, Lawrence. 2013. Philosophy and the Foundations of Dynamics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Sklar, Lawrence, ed. 2015a. Physical Theory. Method and Interpretation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195145649.001.0001.
Sklar, Lawrence. 2015b. “Introduction.” in Physical Theory. Method and Interpretation, edited by Lawrence Sklar, pp. 1–8. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195145649.001.0001.
Sklar, Lawrence. 2015c. “Statistical Mechanics in Physical Theory.” in Physical Theory. Method and Interpretation, edited by Lawrence Sklar, pp. 269–284. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195145649.001.0001.
Sklar, Lawrence. 2015d. “How Theories Work: Open Questions for Methodological Philosophy of Science.” in Qualia and Mental Causation in a Physical World. Themes from the Philosophy of Jaegwon Kim, edited by Terence E. Horgan, Marcelo Sabatés, and David Sosa, pp. 231–251. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/cbo9781139939539.
Sklar, Lawrence. 2015e. “Philosophy of Statistical Mechanics.” 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/statphys-statmech/.

Further References

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.
Field, Hartry. 1985. “Can we Dispense with Space-Time?” in PSA 1984: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposium Papers, edited by Peter D. Asquith and Philip Kitcher, pp. 33–90. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Malament, David B. 1985. “ ‘Time Travel’ in the Gödel Universe.” in PSA 1984: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposium Papers, edited by Peter D. Asquith and Philip Kitcher, pp. 91–100. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Savitt, Steven F., ed. 1995. Time’s Arrow Today. Recent Physical and Philosophical Work on the Direction of Time. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Smith, Peter. 1998. Explaining Chaos. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Tipler, Frank J. 1989. “The Anthropic Principle: A Primer for Philosophers.” 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. 27–48. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
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.