LATEX

A guide to the philosophy of physics

Philosophy of quantum mechanics

Quantum mechanics 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm/

Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-copenhagen/ 

Bohr's philosophy and the complementarity principle 

https://www.informationphilosopher.com/solutions/scientists/bohr/

Many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-manyworlds/

The uncertainty principle 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qt-uncertainty/ 

The quantum measurement problem 

https://b-ok.africa/book/1299172/d308dd

Bohr's correspondence principle 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/bohr-correspondence/

Philosophical issues in quantum theory

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qt-issues/

Collapse theories 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-collapse/

Everett's relative-state formulation of quantum mechanics 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-everett/

The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen argument in quantum theory 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qt-epr/ 

Bell's theorem 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/bell-theorem/ 

CHSH inequality, Bell's states and quantum games 

http://www.sophphx.caltech.edu/Adv_Lab/References/CHCSPhysRevLett.23.880.pdf

The Kochen-Specker theorem 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kochen-specker/ 

Action at a distance in quantum mechanics

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-action-distance/

Quantum entanglement and information 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qt-entangle/

The role of decoherence in quantum mechanics 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-decoherence/

Bohmian mechanics 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-bohm/ 

Retrocausality in quantum mechanics 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-retrocausality/ 

The consistent histories approach to quantum mechanics  

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-consistent-histories/

Quantum approaches to consciousness 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qt-consciousness/ 

von Neumann-Wigner interpretation 

https://philarchive.org/archive/YDRBTA

Quantum logic and probability theory 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qt-quantlog/ 

Quantum nonlocality and quantum contextuality 

https://b-ok.africa/book/437945/c5ecda 

Quantum perspectivism 

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00413704

Quantum theory and mathematical rigor 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qt-nvd/ 

Quantum computing 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qt-quantcomp/

Quantum field theory  

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/quantum-field-theory/



Philosophy of spacetime and relativity  

Newton's views on space, time and motion

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/newton-stm/

Leibniz's philosophy of physics

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/leibniz-physics/

Kant's  views on space and time

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-spacetime/

Being and becoming in modern physics 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spacetime-bebecome/

Absolute and relational space and motion: classical theories 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spacetime-theories-classical/

Absolute and relational space and motion: post-Newtonian theories

Space and time: inertial frames

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spacetime-iframes/

Conventionality of simultaneity 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spacetime-convensimul/  

Philosophy of the theory of special relativity 

https://b-ok.africa/book/3344963/0b20cd

The equivalence of mass and energy 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/equivME/

The hole argument

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spacetime-holearg/ 

Ernst Mach 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ernst-mach/

Early philosophical interpretations of general relativity 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/genrel-early/

Einstein's philosophy of science 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/einstein-philscience/ 

Hermann Weyl 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/weyl/

Philosophy of cosmology 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cosmology/  

The universes of Tegmark: The universe, the inflationary multiverse, the quantum multiverse, and the mathematical multiverse

https://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/crazy.html

Singularities and black holes 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spacetime-singularities/

Quantum black holes: Hawking radiation and information loss problem 

https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.00748

Quantum gravity 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/quantum-gravity/ 

Philosophy of classical mechanics and symmetry 

Causation in physics 

On symplectic reduction in classical mechanics 

Causation in classical mechanics 

Intrinsic and extrinsic properties 


Symmetry and equivalence 

Symmetry and symmetry breaking

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/symmetry-breaking/  

The representation of time and change in mechanics 

http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/2549/1/representation2.pdf

Symmetry and invariances in classical physics  

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.516.4606&rep=rep1&type=pdf 

Aspects of determinism in modern physics 

https://sites.pitt.edu/~jearman/Earman2007a.pdf

The tyranny of scales 

http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/8678/

Fine tuning 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fine-tuning/https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qt-quantcomp/

Unification in physics 

https://b-ok.africa/book/2341578/3a8cfa 

lndistinguishability 

https://b-ok.africa/book/2341578/3a8cfa

Identity and individuality in quantum theory

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qt-idind/

Holism and non-separability in physics

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/physics-holism/ 

Philosophy of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics 

Boltzmann's work in statistical physics 

 https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/statphys-Boltzmann/ 

Boltzmann's philosophy and the second law of thermodynamics 

https://www.informationphilosopher.com/solutions/scientists/boltzmann/

Heat and chance 

https://b-ok.africa/book/3344963/0b20cd

Philosophy of statistical mechanics 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/statphys-statmech/ 

Interpretation of probability 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/probability-interpret/ 

Thermodynamics asymmetry in time 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/time-thermo/

Time's arrow and Eddington's challenge

http://www.bourbaphy.fr/price.pdf

The thermodynamical arrow of time: Reinterpreting the Boltzmann-Schuetz argument 

https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0212511 

Time's arrow and Archimedes's point 

https://b-ok.africa/book/941806/28bc17

Philosophical question raised by phase transitions 

http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/8757/ 

Theories of matters: infinities and renormalization 

https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.2985

Information processing and thermodynamics entropy 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/information-entropy/

Computation in physical system 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computation-physicalsystems/


Philosophy of time

Time

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/time/

The experience and perception of time 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/time-experience/ 

Causal determinism 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/determinism-causal/

Reichenbach's common cause principle 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/physics-Rpcc/

Backward causation 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/causation-backwards/ 

Time travel 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/time-travel/ 

Time travel and modern physics

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/time-travel-phys/ 

Time machines 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/time-machine/  


Philosophy of consciousness 

Consciousness 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness/

Temporal consciousness 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness-temporal/ 

Dualism 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dualism/




Philosophy of science and mathematics  

Scientific method 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-method/ 

Thought experiments 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thought-experiment/

Philosophy of mathematics 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/philosophy-mathematics/ 

Hilbert's program 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hilbert-program/ 

Kurt Godel 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/goedel/

The anthropic principle 

https://anthropic-principle.com/book/anthropicbias.pdf

Simulation hypothesis 

https://www.simulation-argument.com/matrix 

The Matrix as metaphysics 

https://consc.net/papers/matrix.html 

The philosophy of computer science 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computer-science/

The philosophy of neuroscience 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/neuroscience/



Existentialism and metaphysics  

Friedrich Nietzsche 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche/  

Neutral monism 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/neutral-monism/

Perspectivism 

https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1024&context=philosophy_theses 

Perspectivism in science 

https://iep.utm.edu/persp-sc/ 

Perspectival objectivity 

http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/16616/1/Perspectival%20Objectivity%20%5Bdraft%5D.pdf