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  1. The structure and interpretation of quantum mechanics.R. I. G. Hughes - 1989 - Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
    R.I.G Hughes offers the first detailed and accessible analysis of the Hilbert-space models used in quantum theory and explains why they are so successful.
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  2. (2 other versions)The Structure and Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.R. I. G. Hughes, James T. Cushing & Ernan Mcmullin - 1991 - Synthese 86 (1):99-122.
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    (1 other version)The theoretical practices of physics: philosophical essays.R. I. G. Hughes - 2010 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    R.I.G. Hughes presents a series of eight philosophical essays on the theoretical practices of physics. The first two essays examine these practices as they appear in physicists' treatises (e.g. Newton's Principia and Opticks ) and journal articles (by Einstein, Bohm and Pines, Aharonov and Bohm). By treating these publications as texts, Hughes casts the philosopher of science in the role of critic. This premise guides the following 6 essays which deal with various concerns of philosophy of physics such as laws, (...)
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  4. Bell's Theorem, Ideology, and Structural Explanation.R. I. G. Hughes - 1989 - In James T. Cushing & Ernan McMullin (eds.), Philoophical Consequences of Quantum Theory. University of Notre Dame Press. pp. 195--207.
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    Philosophical Perspectives on Newtonian Science.Phillip Bricker & R. I. G. Hughes (eds.) - 1990 - MIT Press.
    These original essays explore the philosophical implications of Newton's work.
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    The Bohr Atom, Models, and Realism.R. I. G. Hughes - 1990 - Philosophical Topics 18 (2):71-84.
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    Theoretical Explanation.R. I. G. Hughes - 1993 - Midwest Studies in Philosophy 18 (1):132-153.
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    Particles and Paradoxes: The Limits of Quantum Logic.R. I. G. Hughes - 1990 - Philosophical Review 99 (4):646.
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    Rationality and Intransitive Preferences.R. I. G. Hughes - 1980 - Analysis 40 (3):132 - 134.
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    A Philosophical Companion to First-order Logic.R. I. G. Hughes (ed.) - 1993 - Indianapolis and Cambridge: Hackett Publishing.
    This volume of recent writings, some previously unpublished, follows the sequence of a typical intermediate or upper-level logic course and allows teachers to enrich their presentations of formal methods and results with readings on corresponding questions in philosophical logic.
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    Semantic alternatives in partial Boolean quantum logic.R. I. G. Hughes - 1985 - Journal of Philosophical Logic 14 (4):411 - 446.
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    Theoretical Practice: the Bohm-Pines Quartet.R. I. G. Hughes - 2006 - Perspectives on Science 14 (4):457-524.
    Quite rightly, philosophers of physics examine the theories of physics, theories like Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Field Theory, the Special and General Theories of Relativity, and Statistical Mechanics. Far fewer, however, examine how these theories are put to use; that is to say, little attention is paid to the practices of theoretical physicists. In the early 1950s David Bohm and David Pines published a sequence of four papers, collectively entitled, ‘A Collective Description of Electron Interaction.’ This essay uses that quartet as (...)
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    Symmetry Arguments in Probability Kinematics.R. I. G. Hughes & Bas C. van Fraassen - 1984 - PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1984:851-869.
    Probability kinematics is the theory of how subjective probabilities change with time, in response to certain constraints . Rules are classified by the imposed constraints for which the rules prescribe a procedure for updating one's opinion. The first is simple conditionalization , and the second Jeffrey conditionalization . It is demonstrated by a symmetry argument that these rules are the unique admissible rules for those constraints, and moreover, that any probability kinematic rule must be equivalent to a conditionalization preceded by (...)
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    Models, the Brownian motion, and the disunities of physics.R. I. G. Hughes - 1997 - In John Earman & John D. Norton (eds.), The Cosmos of Science: Essays of Exploration. University of Pittsburgh Press. pp. 325--347.
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    Hume's Second Enquiry: Ethics as Natural Science.R. I. G. Hughes - 1985 - History of Philosophy Quarterly 2 (3):291 - 307.
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    Kant's Analogies and the Structure of Objective Time.R. I. G. Hughes - 1990 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 71 (2):141-163.
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    (1 other version)Kant’s Third Paralogism.R. I. G. Hughes - 1983 - Kant Studien 74 (4):405-411.
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    Laws of Nature, Laws of Physics, and the Representational Account of Theories.R. I. G. Hughes - 1998 - ProtoSociology 12:113-143.
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    [Omnibus Review].R. I. G. Hughes - 1985 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 50 (2):558-566.
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    Quantum Logic and the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.R. I. G. Hughes - 1980 - PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1980:55 - 67.
    One problem with assessing quantum logic is that there are considerable differences between its practitioners. In particular they offer different versions of the set of sentences which the logic governs. On some accounts the sentences involved describe events, on others they are ascriptions of properties. In this paper a framework is offered within which to discuss different quantum logical interpretations of quantum theory, and then the works of Jauch, Putnam, van Fraassen and Kochen are located within it.
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    The Logic of Experimental Questions.R. I. G. Hughes - 1982 - PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1982:243 - 256.
    The pair (A, Δ ), where A is a physical quantity (an observable) and Δ a subset of the reals, may be called an 'experimental question'. The set Q of experimental questions is, in classical mechanics, a Boolean algebra, and in quantum mechanics an orthomodular lattice (and also a transitive partial Boolean algebra). The question is raised: can we specify a priori what algebraic structure Q must have in any theory whatsoever? Several proposals suggesting that Q must be a lattice (...)
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    Tolstoy, stanislavski, and the art of acting.R. I. G. Hughes - 1993 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 51 (1):39-48.
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    (1 other version)Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara. Quantum logic. Handbook of philosophical logic, Volume III, Alternatives to classical logic, edited by D. Gabbay and F. Guenthner, Synthese library, vol. 166, D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht etc. 1986, pp. 427–469. [REVIEW]R. I. G. Hughes - 1992 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 57 (2):753-754.
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    Simon Kochen and E. P. Specker. Logical structures arising in quantum theory. A reprint of XL 507. The logieo-algebraic approach to quantum mechanics, Volume I, Historicale evolution, edited by C. A. Hooker, The University of Western Ontario series in philosophy of science, vol. 5, D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht and Boston1975, pp. 263–276. - Simon Kochen and E. P. Specker. The calculus of partial propositional functions. A reprint of XL 508. The logieo-algebraic approach to quantum mechanics, Volume I, Historical evolution, edited by C. A. Hooker, The University of Western Ontario series in philosophy of science, vol. 5, D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht and Boston1975, pp. 277–292. - P.D. Finch. On the structure of quantum logic. The logieo-algebraic approach to quantum mechanics, Volume I, Historical evolution, edited by C. A. Hooker, The University of Western Ontario series in philosophy of science, vol. 5, D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht and Boston1975, pp. [REVIEW]R. I. G. Hughes - 1985 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 50 (2):558-566.
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    The Shaky Game: Einstein, Realism, and the Quantum Theory by Arthur Fine. [REVIEW]R. I. G. Hughes - 1991 - Journal of Philosophy 88 (5):275-279.