qminfinity

camels resting, Gobi desert, Mongolia


(2022), "Locality in QFT," in Knox and Wilson (eds.), Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Physics.

(2020) (with John Earman), "Quantum Mechanics as a Theory of States," in Hemmo and Shenker, Quantum, Probability, Logic (Springer)

(2018), "Renormalization Group Realism: The ascent of pessimism," Philosophy of Science 85: 1176-1189.

(2014), "QMinfinity," in Sklar, ed, Physical Theory: Interpretation and Method (OUP)

rental skis resting, Yosemite National Park, California


*Sad but true: I sent corrected page proofs of these pieces to the journal in early 2009, shortly after I moved to Michigan. They languished unpublished for years because the journal couldn't get me to sign and return release forms which, because they were being sent to a defunct Pitt email address, I never received.


(2013), "Physical Equivalence and Unitary Equivalence," in Batterman (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Physics

(2012), (with John Earman) “Infinitely Challenging: Pitowsky’s subjective interpretation and QMinfinity,” in Yemima Ben-Menahme and Meir Hemmo (eds.), Probability in Physics (Berlin: Springer Verlag), 219-232.

(2012)*, “Philosophical Aspects of Quantum Field Theory, I and PAQFT, II” Philosophy Compass 7: 559-570, 571-584.

(2011), (with John Earman), “Probabilities in Quantum Field Theory and Quantum Statistical Mechanics,” in Claus Beisbart and Stephan Hartmann (eds.), Probabilities in Physics (Oxford University Press), 263-290.

(2011), “Why be Normal?” Studies in the History and Philosophy of ModernPhysics 42: 107-115.

bicycle resting, Swiss Alps


(2006), “Johnny’s So Long at the Ferromagnet,” Philosophy of Science 73 : 473-486.

(2005), (with John Earman), “Relativistic Invariance and Modal Interpretations,” Philosophy of Science 72: 557-583.

(2004), “Intrinsically Mixed States: an Appreciation,” Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 35: 221-239.

(2003), (with Aristidis Arageorgis and John Earman), “Fulling Non-uniqueness, Rindler Quanta, and the Unruh Effect: A Primer on Some Aspects of Quantum Field Theory,” Philosophy of Science 70: 164-2002.

(2003), “A Matter of Degree: Putting Unitary Inequivalence to Work,” Philosophy of Science 70: 1329-1342.

(2002), “Interpreting Quantum Field Theory,” Philosophy of Science 69: 348-378.

marmot resting, Deadman Canyon

(2002), (with Aristidis Arageorgis and John Earman), “Weyling the Time Away: the Non-Unitary Implementability of Quantum Field Dynamics on Curved Spacetime and the Algebraic Approach to QFT,” Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 33: 151-184.

(1999), (with Rob Clifton), “Changing the Subject: Redei on Causal Dependence and Screening Off in Relativistic Quantum Field Theory,” Philosophy of Science 66: S156-S169.

(1999), (with Gordon Belot and John Earman), “Anatomy of a Controversy: the HawkingInformation Loss Paradox,” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 50: 189-229.