nLab philosophy of physics

Idea

The philosophy of physics.

Sentiments

• universal exceptionalism

• empiricism

• idealism

Related concepts

• coordination, measurement problem

• natural philosophy

• metaphysics

• philosophy of science

  • philosophy of mathematics

References

General

• Wikipedia, Philosophy of physics

• Georg Hegel, Philosophy of Nature

• Jeremy Butterfield, Philosophy of physics: a short reading list

• Lawrence Sklar, Philosophy of Physics, Oxford University Press (1992)

• Roland Omnès, Converging Realities – Toward a common philosophy of physics and mathematics, Princeton University Press, 2005

• David Albert, On the origin of Everything, 2012

• Gabriel Catren et al. (org.) Philosophy of Mechanics: Mathematical Foundations, Workshop Feb 12-14, 2014 (website, poster)

Interpretation of quantum mechanics

Reference specifically on the interpretation of quantum mechanics include

• Roland Omnès, The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

• Valia Allori (2017). A New Argument for the Nomological Interpretation of the Wave Function: The Galilean Group and the Classical Limit of Nonrelativistic Quantum Mechanics. (philsci-archive:14023)