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  1. Emerging from imaginary time.Robert J. Deltete & Reed A. Guy - 1996 - Synthese 108 (2):185 - 203.
    Recent models in quantum cosmology make use of the concept of imaginary time. These models all conjecture a join between regions of imaginary time and regions of real time. We examine the model of James Hartle and Stephen Hawking to argue that the various no-boundary attempts to interpret the transition from imaginary to real time in a logically consistent and physically significant way all fail. We believe this conclusion also applies to quantum tunneling models, such as that proposed by Alexander (...)
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    Review of Reading the Book of Nature by Peter Kosso. [REVIEW]Robert J. Deltete - 1996 - Philosophy of Science 63 (3):475-476.
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    Helm and Boltzmann: Energetics at the lübeck naturforscherversammlung.Robert Deltete - 1999 - Synthese 119 (1-2):45-68.
    The energetics controversy is understood variously as energy vs. atoms, thermodynamics vs. statistical mechanics, phenomenalism vs. realism, equations vs. pictures, and especially Ostwald vs. Boltzmann. It is generally thought that at Lübeck in 1895 Boltzmann and Planck demolished energetics, but while its momentum was slowed, energetics in one or more of the above senses still retained supporters as late as the great physics conference at the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904. Indeed, after Ostwald himself abandoned it in 1908, Ernst (...)
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  4. New perspectives on Pierre Duhem’s The aim and structure of physical theory.Anastasios Brenner, Paul Needham, David J. Stump & Robert Deltete - 2011 - Metascience 20 (1):1-25.
    New perspectives on Pierre Duhem’s The aim and structure of physical theory Content Type Journal Article DOI 10.1007/s11016-010-9467-3 Authors Anastasios Brenner, Department of Philosophy, Paul Valéry University-Montpellier III, Route De Mende, 34199 Montpellier cedex 5, France Paul Needham, Department of Philosophy, University of Stockholm, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden David J. Stump, Department of Philosophy, University of San Francisco, 2130 Fulton Street, San Francisco, CA 94117, USA Robert Deltete, Department of Philosophy, Seattle University, 901 12th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122-1090, USA Journal Metascience (...)
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    Die Lehre von der Energie: Georg Helm's Energetic Manifesto.Robert J. Deltete - 2005 - Centaurus 47 (2):140-162.
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  6. Einstein and EPR.Robert Deltete & Reed Guy - 1991 - Philosophy of Science 58 (3):377-397.
    Recent studies have shown that Einstein did not write the EPR paper and that he was disappointed with the outcome. He thought, rightly, that his own argument for the incompleteness of quantum theory was badly presented in the paper. We reconstruct the argument of EPR, indicate the reasons Einstein was dissatisfied with it, and discuss Einstein's own argument. We show that many commentators have been misled by the obscurity of EPR into proposing interpretations of its argument that do not accurately (...)
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    A Brief, Liberal, Catholic Defense of Abortion.Daniel A. Dombrowski & Robert Deltete - 2006 - University of Illinois Press.
    This tightly argued, historically grounded study sets out to demonstrate that a 'pro-choice' stance is as fully justified by Catholic thought as an anti-abortion view, and may even be more compatible with Catholic tradition than the current opposition to abortion espoused by most Catholic leaders.
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  8. A Brief, Liberal, Catholic Defense of Abortion.Daniel A. Dombrowski & Robert Deltete - 2001 - American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 22 (3):290-294.
     
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    Pierre Duhem: Mixture and chemical combination and related essays. Edited and translated, with an introduction, by Paul Needham.Robert J. Deltete & Anastasios Brenner - 2004 - Foundations of Chemistry 6 (3):203-232.
    The following is an essay review of Paul Needham's translation of Pierre Duhem's Lemixte et la combinaison chimique and a numberof other essays. In this review we describe theintent and general features of Le mixte and try to place it in the larger context of Duhem'sprogram for energetics. The long essay (Essay3) opposing Marcellin Berthelot'sthermochemistry is singled out for detailedcommentary, since it gives Duhem's reasons forendorsing Josiah Willard Gibbs's chemicalstatics. We argue that a chemical mechanics ofa Gibbsian sort, defended in (...)
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  10. Hartle-Hawking cosmology and unconditional probabilities.Robert J. Deltete & Reed A. Guy - 1997 - Analysis 57 (4):304–315.
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    Planck, Ostwald, and the Second Law of Thermodynamics.Robert J. Deltete - 2012 - Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 2 (1):121-146.
  12. Entropic creation: Religious contexts of thermodynamics and cosmology. By Helge S. Kragh.Robert J. Deltete - 2010 - Zygon 45 (1):281-282.
  13. Religion, Science and Naturalism. [REVIEW]Robert J. Deltete - 1998 - American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 72 (3):459-465.
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    Hawking on God and creation.Robert J. Deltete - 1993 - Zygon 28 (4):485-506.
  15. Thermodynamics in Wilhelm Ostwald’s Physical Chemistry.Robert J. Deltete - 2010 - Philosophy of Science 77 (5):888-899.
    This essay focuses on the place of the second law of thermodynamics in Wilhelm Ostwald's physical chemistry. After a brief introduction to his energetic theory, which was supposed to be a generalization of thermodynamics, I contrast Ostwald's understanding of the second law, which ignored entropy and irreversibility, with Max Planck's, which emphasized both. I then consider how Ostwald sought to develop physical chemistry without any concern for irreversibility and little concern for entropy, and I argue that he was mistaken.
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    Hawking on God and physical theory.Robert J. Deltete - 1995 - Zygon 30 (4):635-642.
  17. Man of science, man of faith: Pierre Duhem's "physique de croyant".Robert J. Deltete - 2008 - Zygon 43 (3):627-637.
    The essay "Physique de croyant" is an important statement of Pierre Duhem's position on the relation between his science and his religion. Duhem trod a difficult path, some might say an impossible one, in Republican France because he was both a physicist and a devout Catholic. In this essay, using "Physique de croyant" as a touchstone, I explore the way in which he tried to reconcile his conflicting allegiances. There are several strands in Duhem's strategy that need to be teased (...)
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    Fine, Einstein, and ensembles.Reed Guy & Robert Deltete - 1990 - Foundations of Physics 20 (8):943-965.
    Einstein insisted that the only acceptable interpretation of the quantum theory was an ensemble interpretation, that this way of understanding the quantum formalism eliminated all the problems associated with interpreting the theory as a complete description of individual systems. But he never developed his ensemble interpretation in any detail or explained how it was supposed to resolve the difficulties with the individual interpretation. We offer a reconstruction of Einstein's position that is consonant with his other beliefs and examine the “prism” (...)
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    Essay Review on Pierre Duhem: Mixture and Chemical Combination and Related Essays. [REVIEW]Anastasios Brenner & Robert J. Deltete - 2004 - Foundations of Chemistry 6 (3):203-232.
    The following is an essay review of Paul Needham's translation of Pierre Duhem's Lemixte et la combinaison chimique and a numberof other essays. In this review we describe theintent and general features of Le mixte and try to place it in the larger context of Duhem'sprogram for energetics. The long essay (Essay3) opposing Marcellin Berthelot'sthermochemistry is singled out for detailedcommentary, since it gives Duhem's reasons forendorsing Josiah Willard Gibbs's chemicalstatics. We argue that a chemical mechanics ofa Gibbsian sort, defended in (...)
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    The evolution of God. By Robert Wright.Robert J. Deltete - 2010 - Zygon 45 (2):530-531.
  21. Book Review. [REVIEW]Robert Deltete - 2002 - Philosophia Christi 4 (1):257-261.
     
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  22. Critical notice of Theism, Atheism, and Big Bang Cosmology, by William Lane Craig and Quentin Smith.Robert Deltete - 1995 - Zygon 30:656.
  23. John H. Sceski, Popper, Objectivity and the Growth of Knowledge. [REVIEW]Robert Deltete - 2008 - Philosophy in Review 28 (6):432-435.
     
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  24. James V. Schall, The Mind that is Catholic: Philosophical and Political Essays. [REVIEW]Robert Deltete - 2009 - Philosophy in Review 29 (6):438-439.
     
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  25. Max Planck: the emergence of modern Physics (vol 65, pg 594, 2008).Robert J. Deltete, Dieter Hoffmann & Verlag Ch Beck - 2009 - Annals of Science 66 (1):153-153.
     
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  26. Nicola Mößner, Sebastian Schmoranzer, and Christian Weidemann, eds., Richard Swinburne: Christian Philosophy in the Modern World. [REVIEW]Robert Deltete - 2009 - Philosophy in Review 29 (4):269-271.
     
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  27. Review of Robert Nola and Howard Sankey, Theories of Scientific Method: An Introduction. [REVIEW]Robert J. Deltete - 2009 - Philosophy in Review 29 (1):55.
  28. Review of Aims: A Brief Metaphysics for Today, by James W. Felt. [REVIEW]Robert J. Deltete - 2009 - Essays in Philosophy 10 (1):154-156.
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  29. Steve Fuller, Kuhn vs. Popper: The Struggle for the Soul of Science. [REVIEW]Robert Deltete - 2006 - Philosophy in Review 26:18-180.
     
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  30. Steve Fuller, Science vs Religion? Intelligent Design and the Problem of Evolution.Robert J. Deltete - 2009 - Philosophy in Review 29 (3):183.
     
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    Is the universe self-caused?Robert J. Deltete - 2000 - Philosophy 75 (4):599-603.
    Quentin Smith has been arguing for more than a decade that the universe is uncaused. For nearly as long he has also argued that it appeared spontaneously from literally nothing. I have replied to these arguments in many places, including a recent essay in Philosophy. Now, apparently, Smith has changed his mind: in his most recent contribution to Philosophy, he argues not that the universe is uncaused, but that it is self-caused. His motives for so doing remain much the same, (...)
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    Creation, Co‐operation, and Causality: A Reply to Gregersen.Richard T. McClelland & Robert J. Deltete - 1999 - Zygon 34 (1):101-109.
    Niels H. Gregersen seeks to illuminate the nature of continuing divine action in the world and to show that the classical theistic doctrine of continuous creation is consonant with some recent scientific theories of self‐productive (“autopoietic”) systems. Central to these theories is the concept of co‐operation; central to Gregersen's theological appropriation of these theories is also the notion of structuring causality developed by philosopher Fred Dretske. While supportive of Gregersen's overall aims and emphases, we find significant disanalogies between co‐operation as (...)
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    Making Sense of Evolution: Darwin, God, and the Drama of Life. By John F. Haught.Robert J. Deltete - 2010 - Zygon 45 (3):777-779.
  34. James Rachels and Stuart Rachels, ed., The Legacy of Socrates: Essays in Moral Philosophy.Robert J. Deltete - 2009 - Philosophy in Review 29 (2):132.
     
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    The Elements of Moral Philosophy. [REVIEW]Robert J. Deltete - 1993 - Teaching Philosophy 16 (4):371-374.
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    God, Creation, and Contemporary Physics. [REVIEW]Robert J. Deltete - 1999 - American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 73 (2):358-362.
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    Christa Jungnickel and Russell McCormmach. The Second Physicist: On the History of Theoretical Physics in Germany. Cham: Springer, 2017. Pp. xxxi+460. $180.00 ; $140.00. [REVIEW]Robert J. Deltete - 2019 - Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 9 (1):209-211.
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    Anastasios Brenner, Les origines françaises de la philosophie des sciences. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France , 209pp., €18. [REVIEW]Robert J. Deltete - 2004 - Philosophy of Science 71 (4):630-633.
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  39. Divine Causation.Richard T. McClelland & Robert J. Deltete - 2000 - Faith and Philosophy 17 (1):3-25.
    Quentin Smith has argued that it is logically impossible for there to be a divine cause of the universe. His argument is based on a Humean analysis of causation (confined to event causation, specifically excluding any consideration of agency) and a principle drawn from that analysis that he takes to be a logical requirement for every possibly valid theory of causation. He also thinks that all divine volitions are efficacious of logical necessity. We argue that all of these claims are (...)
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    Wilhelm Ostwald’s energetics 3: energetic theory and applications, part II. [REVIEW]Robert J. Deltete - 2008 - Foundations of Chemistry 10 (3):187-221.
    This is the third of a series of essays on the development and reception of Wilhelm Ostwald’s energetics. The first essay described the chemical origins of Ostwald’s interest in the energy concept and his motivations for seeking a comprehensive science of energy. The second essay and the present one discuss his various attempts, beginning in 1891 and extending over almost 3 years, to develop a consistent and coherent energetic theory. A final essay will consider reactions to this work and Ostwald’s (...)
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    Deeper Than Darwin. [REVIEW]Robert J. Deltete - 2005 - American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 79 (3):507-511.
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    Ernan McMullin on Anthropic Reasoning in Cosmology.Robert J. Deltete - 2012 - American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 86 (2):321-330.
    Fr. Ernan McMullin wrote at least five essays in which anthropic reasoning in cosmology was a prominent topic of discussion and evaluation. Unlike thewritings of many passionate advocates and hostile critics of the so-called “anthropic principle” (AP), they are all nuanced essays—very much in keeping with Fr. Ernan’s usual approach to difficult and controversial subjects. Supporters of that approach will praise what he has to say as properly cautious and circumspect; others will likely find him often indecisive. In this essay, (...)
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    Philosophy of Physics. Lawrence Sklar.Robert J. Deltete - 1994 - Isis 85 (2):363-364.
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    Alan Vincelette , Recent Catholic Philosophy: The Twentieth Century . Reviewed by.Robert J. Deltete - 2013 - Philosophy in Review 33 (1):89-90.
  45. C. Stephen Layman, Letters to Doubting Thomas: A Case for the Existence of God Reviewed by.Robert J. Deltete - 2008 - Philosophy in Review 28 (1):41-43.
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    Jeffrey A. Schaler, ed., Peter Singer Under Fire: The Moral Iconoclast Faces His Critics. Reviewed by.Robert Deltete - 2010 - Philosophy in Review 30 (5):372-375.
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    Paul Feyerabend , The Tyranny of Science . Reviewed by.Robert Deltete - 2011 - Philosophy in Review 31 (4):271-273.
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    Georg Helm's Chemical Energetics.Robert J. Deltete - 2012 - Hyle 18 (1):23 - 44.
    This essay has three interrelated goals: first, to sketch the basic contours of Georg Helm's energetic theory; second, to describe his attempt in his Grundzüge der mathematischen Chemie. Energetik der chemischen Erscheinungen (1894) to apply that theory to the (then) burgeoning new field of physical chemistry. This is of some interest historically, since Helm's work is the most sophisticated attempt to develop the whole of physical chemistry mathematically from an energetic point of view. Nevertheless, it is seriously flawed technically. Moreover, (...)
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    The End of the Certain World: The Life and Science of Max Born, the Nobel Scientist who Ignited the Quantum Revolution.Robert J. Deltete - 2009 - Annals of Science 66 (3):433-436.
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    Paul K. Moser, ed. Jesus and Philosophy: New Essays Reviewed by.Robert J. Deltete - 2010 - Philosophy in Review 30 (1):53-55.
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