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  1. Handbook of the philosophy of physics.J. Butterfield & J. Earman (eds.) - 2006 - Kluwer Academic Publishers.
  2. What is a Newtonian system? The failure of energy conservation and determinism in supertasks.J. S. Alper, M. Bridger, J. Earman & J. D. Norton - 2000 - Synthese 124 (2):281-293.
    Supertasks recently discussed in the literature purport to display a failure ofenergy conservation and determinism in Newtonian mechanics. We debatewhether these supertasks are admissible as Newtonian systems, with Earmanand Norton defending the affirmative and Alper and Bridger the negative.
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    The Cement of the Universe.John Earman & J. L. Mackie - 1976 - Philosophical Review 85 (3):390.
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  4. The meaning and status of Newton's law of inertia and the nature of gravitational forces.J. Earman & M. Friedman - 1973 - Philosophy of Science 40 (3):329-359.
    A four dimensional approach to Newtonian physics is used to distinguish between a number of different structures for Newtonian space-time and a number of different formulations of Newtonian gravitational theory. This in turn makes possible an in-depth study of the meaning and status of Newton's Law of Inertia and a detailed comparison of the Newtonian and Einsteinian versions of the Law of Inertia and the Newtonian and Einsteinian treatments of gravitational forces. Various claims about the status of Newton's Law of (...)
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    Carnap, Kuhn, and the Philosophy of Science Methodology.J. Earman - 1993 - In Paul Horwich (ed.), World Changes: Thomas Kuhn and the Nature of Science. MIT Press. pp. 9--36.
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    Foundations of Space-Time Theories: Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science.John Earman, Clark N. Glymour & John J. Stachel (eds.) - 1974 - University of Minnesota Press.
    Some Philosophical Prehistory of General Relativity As history, my remarks will form rather a medley. If they can claim any sort of unity (apart from a ...
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    Two Challenges to the Requirement of Substantive General Covariance.J. Earman - 2006 - Synthese 148 (2):443-468.
    It is generally acknowledged that the requirement that the laws of a spacetime theory be covariant under a general coordinate transformation is a restriction on the form but not the content of the theory. The prevalent view in the physics community holds that the substantive version of general covariance – exhibited, for example, by Einstein’s general theory of relativity – consists in the requirement that diffeomorphism invariance is a gauge symmetry of the theory. This conception of general covariance is explained (...)
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    Covariance, invariance, and the equivalence of frames.J. Earman - 1974 - Foundations of Physics 4 (2):267-289.
    This paper represents an attempt to clarify a number of long-standing issues concerning the nature and status of the special and general principles of relativity in particular and symmetry or invariance principles in general. An analysis of the active and passive interpretations of symmetry operations is offered. This analysis yields an evaluation of the old covariance-invariance issue. It also demonstrates that the passive interpretation, insofar as it is not trivial, is parasitic on the active picture. Finally, the analysis shows that (...)
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    Discussion. Comments on Laraudogoitia's 'classical particle dynamics, indeterminism and a supertask'.J. Earman - 1998 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 49 (1):123-133.
    We discuss two supertasks invented recently by Laraudogoitia [1996, 1997], Both involve an infinite number of particle collisions within a finite amount of time and both compromise determinism. We point out that the sources of the indeterminism are rather different in the two cases - one involves unbounded particle velocities, the other involves particles with no lower bound to their sizes - and consequently that the implications for determinism are rather different - one form of indeterminism affects Newtonian but not (...)
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    Philosophical Problems of the Internal and External Worlds: Essays on the Philosophy of Adolf Grunbaum.John Earman, Allen I. Janis, Gerald J. Massey & Nicholas Rescher (eds.) - 1994 - University of Pittsburgh Press.
    The inaugural volume of the Pitt-Konstanz series, devoted to the work of philosopher Adolf Grünbaum, encompasses the philosophical problems of space, time, and cosmology, the nature of scientific methodology, and the foundations of psychoanalysis.
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  11. Foundations of Space-Time Theories.J. S. Earman, C. N. Glymour & J. J. Stachel - 1980 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 31 (3):311-315.
     
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  12. Special issue of.J. Earman, C. Glymour & S. Mitchell - forthcoming - Erkenntnis.
     
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  13. Bandyopadhyay, PS, 259 Bassler, OB, 99.G. G. Brittan Jr, S. Choi, P. Contu, M. de Pinedo, K. Dosen, J. Earman, E. Fischer, H. J. Glock, L. Hallnas & S. O. Hansson - 2006 - Synthese 148:749.
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    Discussion. Earman and Norton on supertasks that generate indeterminism.J. P. Laraudogoitia - 1999 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 50 (1):137-141.
    In a recent discussion, Earman and Norton [(1998)] propose a classification of supertasks that generate indeterminism which is flawed. An emendation is presented here.
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  15. Laws of Nature: The Empiricist Challenge.John Earman - 1977 - In Jeremy Butterfield & John Earman (eds.). pp. 191-223.
    Hume defined ‘cause’ three times over. The two principal definitions (constant conjunction, felt determination) provide the anchors for the two main strands of the modem empiricist accounts of laws of nature 1 while the third (the counter factual definition 2) may be seen as the inspiration of the nonHumean necessitarian analyses. Corresponding to the felt determination definition is the account of laws that emphasizes human attitudes, beliefs, and actions. Latter day weavers of this strand include Nelson Goodman, A. J. Ayer, (...)
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  16. J. Earman: "A Primer on Determinism". [REVIEW]Jolm Forge - 1988 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 66:263.
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    Inference, Explanation, and Other Frustrations: Essays in the Philosophy of Science.John Earman (ed.) - 1992 - Berkeley: University of California Press.
    These provocative essays by leading philosophers of science exemplify and illuminate the contemporary uncertainty and excitement in the field. The papers are rich in new perspectives, and their far-reaching criticisms challenge arguments long prevalent in classic philosophical problems of induction, empiricism, and realism. By turns empirical or analytic, historical or programmatic, confessional or argumentative, the authors' arguments both describe and demonstrate the fact that philosophy of science is in a ferment more intense than at any time since the heyday of (...)
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    Review of "Conceptual Foundations of Contemporary Relativity Theory" by J. Graves. [REVIEW]John Earman - unknown
  19. Review of "Bangs, crunches, shrieks, whispers" by J Earman[REVIEW]Graham Oppy - 1998 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 76 (2):352-4.
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    Change in Hamiltonian general relativity from the lack of a time-like Killing vector field.J. Brian Pitts - 2014 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 47:68-89.
    In General Relativity in Hamiltonian form, change has seemed to be missing, defined only asymptotically, or otherwise obscured at best, because the Hamiltonian is a sum of first-class constraints and a boundary term and thus supposedly generates gauge transformations. Attention to the gauge generator G of Rosenfeld, Anderson, Bergmann, Castellani et al., a specially _tuned sum_ of first-class constraints, facilitates seeing that a solitary first-class constraint in fact generates not a gauge transformation, but a bad physical change in electromagnetism or (...)
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  21. Some Thoughts on Relativity and the Flow of Time: Einstein’s Equations given Absolute Simultaneity.J. Brian Pitts - 2004 - Chronos 6.
    The A-theory of time has intuitive and metaphysical appeal, but suffers from tension, if not inconsistency, with the special and general theories of relativity (STR and GTR). The A-theory requires a notion of global simultaneity invariant under the symmetries of the world's laws, those ostensible transformations of the state of the world that in fact leave the world as it was before. Relativistic physics, if read in a realistic sense, denies that there exists any notion of global simultaneity that is (...)
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    A Defense of Hume on Miracles.Robert J. Fogelin - 2010 - Princeton University Press.
    Since its publication in the mid-eighteenth century, Hume's discussion of miracles has been the target of severe and often ill-tempered attacks. In this book, one of our leading historians of philosophy offers a systematic response to these attacks. Arguing that these criticisms have--from the very start--rested on misreadings, Robert Fogelin begins by providing a narrative of the way Hume's argument actually unfolds. What Hume's critics have failed to see is that Hume's primary argument depends on fixing the appropriate standards of (...)
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  23. Earman, J.-Bangs, Crunches, Whimpers, and Shrieks.A. Maidens - 1998 - Philosophical Books 39:220-221.
  24. Earman, J.(ed.)-Inference, Explanation, and Other Frustrations.A. Heathcote - 1996 - Philosophical Books 37:133-133.
     
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  25. John Earman, Allen I. Janis, Gerald J. Massey, and Nicholas Rescher, eds., Philosophical Problems of the Internal and External Worlds: Essays on the Philosophy of Adolf Grunbaum Reviewed by. [REVIEW]Chris Daly - 1995 - Philosophy in Review 15 (3):167-171.
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  26. EARMAN, J., GLYMOUR, C. & STACHEL, J. "Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science", Vol. VIII: "Foundations of Space-Time Theories". [REVIEW]Graham Nerlich - 1979 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 57:186.
     
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    Review of J. S. EARMAN, C. N. GLYMOUR and J. J. STACHEL: Foundations of Space-Time Theories[REVIEW]Roger Jones - 1980 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 31 (3):311-315.
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    Some Philosophical Prehistory of the (Earman-Norton) hole argument.James Owen Weatherall - 2020 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 70:79-87.
    The celu of the philosophical literature on the hole argument is the 1987 paper by Earman \& Norton ["What Price Space-time Substantivalism? The Hole Story" Br. J. Phil. Sci.]. This paper has a well-known back-story, concerning work by Stachel and Norton on Einstein's thinking in the years 1913-15. Less well-known is a connection between the hole argument and Earman's work on Leibniz in the 1970s and 1980s, which in turn can be traced to an argument first presented in (...)
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    Review of Philosophical Problems of the Internal and External Worlds: Essays on the Philosophy of Adolf Grunbaum, ed. John Earman, Allen I. Janis, Gerald J. Massey, and Nicholas Rescher. [REVIEW]Massimo Pauri - 1995 - Philosophy of Science 62 (3):484-487.
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    Book Review:Foundations of Space-Time Theories (Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume 8) John S. Earman, Clark N. Glymour, John J. Stachel. [REVIEW]Philip L. Quinn - 1980 - Philosophy of Science 47 (2):327-.
  31. Assessing theories, Bayes style.Franz Huber - 2008 - Synthese 161 (1):89-118.
    The problem addressed in this paper is “the main epistemic problem concerning science”, viz. “the explication of how we compare and evaluate theories [...] in the light of the available evidence” (van Fraassen, BC, 1983, Theory comparison and relevant Evidence. In J. Earman (Ed.), Testing scientific theories (pp. 27–42). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press). Sections 1– 3 contain the general plausibility-informativeness theory of theory assessment. In a nutshell, the message is (1) that there are two values a theory should (...)
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    Space, Time and Falsifiability Critical Exposition and Reply to "A Panel Discussion of Grünbaum's Philosophy of Science".Adolf Grünbaum - 1970 - Philosophy of Science 37 (4):469 - 588.
    Prompted by the "Panel Discussion of Grünbaum's Philosophy of Science" (Philosophy of Science 36, December, 1969) and other recent literature, this essay ranges over major issues in the philosophy of space, time and space-time as well as over problems in the logic of ascertaining the falsity of a scientific hypothesis. The author's philosophy of geometry has recently been challenged along three main distinct lines as follows: (i) The Panel article by G. J. Massey calls for a more precise and more (...)
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    The Hole Argument without the notion of isomorphism.Joanna Luc - 2024 - Synthese 203 (3):1-28.
    In this paper, I argue that the Hole Argument can be formulated without using the notion of isomorphism, and for this reason it is not threatened by the criticism of Halvorson and Manchak (Br J Philos Sci, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1086/719193). Following Earman and Norton (Br J Philos Sci 38, pp. 515–525, 1987), I divide the Hole Argument into two steps: the proof of the Gauge Theorem and the transition from the Gauge Theorem to the conclusion of radical indeterminism. In the (...)
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  34. Reliable Knowledge: An Exploration of the Grounds for Belief in Science.J. M. Ziman - 1981 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 32 (3):311-314.
     
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    The correspondence between cut-elimination and normalization.J. Zucker - 1974 - Annals of Mathematical Logic 7 (1):1-112.
  36. Modal logic, the Lewis-modal systems.J. Jay Zeman - 1973 - Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 163:479-479.
     
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    Cut-elimination and normalization.J. Zucker - 1974 - Annals of Mathematical Logic 7 (1):1.
  38. Ignorance and Moral Obligation.Michael J. Zimmerman - 2014 - Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    Michael J. Zimmerman explores whether and how our ignorance about ourselves and our circumstances affects what our moral obligations and moral rights are. He rejects objective and subjective views of the nature of moral obligation, and presents a new case for a 'prospective' view.
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    The correspondence between cut-elimination and normalization II.J. Zucker - 1974 - Annals of Mathematical Logic 7 (2):113.
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    On the annealing of quenched-in vacancies in gold.J. A. Ytterhus & R. W. Balluffi - 1965 - Philosophical Magazine 11 (112):707-727.
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    WH-EA: An Evolutionary Algorithm for Wiener-Hammerstein System Identification.J. Zambrano, J. Sanchis, J. M. Herrero & M. Martínez - 2018 - Complexity 2018:1-17.
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    The Adequacy Problem for Classical Logic.J. I. Zucker, R. S. Tragesser, Dag Prawitz, Jaakko Hintikka & Ilkka Niiniluoto - 1982 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 47 (3):689-694.
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    In Defense of Violence.J. Zolotin - 2017 - International Journal of Žižek Studies 11 (1).
    In this work I attempt to articulate a principle or set of principles that can guide violent revolution, or emancipatory violence, and yet still prevent the end-stage backlash that generally follows; e.g., the Terror's culmination in which the originators are the targets of the Terror.
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    Comments on recent work on the annealing of vacancy defects in gold quenched in different atmospheres.J. A. Ytterhus, R. W. Balluffi, J. S. Koehler & R. W. Siegel - 1964 - Philosophical Magazine 10 (103):169-172.
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    The deduction theorem in S4, S4.2, and S5.J. Jay Zeman - 1967 - Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 8:56.
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    XVII. The effect of free electrons on lattice conduction.J. M. Ziman - 1956 - Philosophical Magazine 1 (2):191-198.
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    Multi-cluster model of Al–Co–Ni Co-rich quasicrystal.J. Yuhara, M. Sato, T. Matsui & A. P. Tsai - 2011 - Philosophical Magazine 91 (19-21):2846-2853.
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    Biased pain reports through vicarious information: A computational approach to investigate the role of uncertainty.J. Zaman, W. Vanpaemel, C. Aelbrecht, F. Tuerlinckx & J. W. S. Vlaeyen - 2017 - Cognition 169:54-60.
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    Collective behaviour of gold nuclei on KCl.J. C. Zanghi, J. J. Métois & R. Kern - 1975 - Philosophical Magazine 31 (4):743-755.
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  50. Does shading affect size illusions in simple line drawings?J. M. Zanker & Aajk Abdullah - 1996 - In Enrique Villanueva (ed.), Perception. Ridgeview Pub. Co. pp. 179-179.
     
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