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Bratteli, O. and D. W. Robinson, 1979, Operator Algebras and Quantum Statistical Mechanics 1: \(C^*\) and \(W^*\)-Algebras, Symmetry Groups, Decomposition of States, New York et al.: Springer (Scholar)
Brown, H. R. and R. Harré (eds.), 1988, Philosophical Foundations of Quantum Field Theory, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
Buchholz, D., 1994, “On the manifestations of particles”, in R. N. Sen and A. Gersten, eds., Mathematical Physics Towards the 21st Century, Beer-Sheva: Ben-Gurion University Press. (Scholar)
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Cao, T. Y., 1997a, Conceptual Developments of 20th Century Field Theories, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
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Clifton, R. (ed.), 1996, Perspectives on Quantum Reality: Non-Relativistic, Relativistic, and Field-Theoretic, Dordrecht et al.: Kluwer. (Scholar)
Clifton, R. and H. Halvorson, 2001, “Entanglement and open systems in algebraic quantum field theory”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 32: 1–31; reprinted in Butterfield & Halvorson 2004. (Scholar)
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Dawid, R., 2009, “On the conflicting assessments of string theory”, Philosophy of Science, 76: 984–996. (Scholar)
Dieks, D., 2002, “Events and covariance in the interpretation of quantum field theory”, in Kuhlmann et al. 2002, pp. 215–234. (Scholar)
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Dirac, P. A. M., 1927, “The quantum theory of emission and absorption of radiation”, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, A 114: 243–256. (Scholar)
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Earman, J. and D. Fraser, 2006, “Haag’s theorem and its implications for the foundations of quantum field theory”, Erkenntnis, 64: 305–344. (Scholar)
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Feintzeig, B., Le Manchak,, J.B., Rosenstock, S., and J. Weatherall, 2019, “Why Be regular?, part I”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 65: 122–132 (Scholar)
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Fleming, G. N. and J. Butterfield, 1999, “Strange positions”, in Butterfield & Pagonis 1999, pp. 108–165. (Scholar)
Fraser, D., 2008, “The fate of “particles” in quantum field theories with interactions”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 39: 841–59. (Scholar)
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Fraser, J. D., 2018, “The real problem with perturbative quantum field theory”, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, first online 28 June 2018. doi:10.1093/bjps/axx042 (Scholar)
Georgi, H., 1989, “Effective quantum field theories”, in Davies 1989, pp. 446–457. (Scholar)
Greene, B., 1999, The Elegant Universe. Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory, New York: W. W. Norton and Company. (Scholar)
Haag, R., 1996, Local Quantum Physics: Fields, Particles, Algebras, 2nd edition, Berlin et al.: Springer. (Scholar)
Haag, R. and D. Kastler, 1964, “An algebraic approach to quantum field theory”, Journal of Mathematical Physics, 5: 848–861. (Scholar)
Halvorson, H., 2001, “Reeh-Schlieder defeats Newton-Wigner: On alternative localization schemes in relativistic quantum field theory”, Philosophy of Science, 68: 111–133. (Scholar)
Halvorson, H. and R. Clifton, 2002, “No place for particles in relativistic quantum theories?” Philosophy of Science, 69: 1–28; reprinted in Butterfield and Halvorson 2004 and in Kuhlmann et al. 2002. (Scholar)
Halvorson, H. and M. Müger , 2007, “Algebraic quantum field theory (with an appendix by Michael Müger)”, in Handbook of the Philosophy of Physics — Part A, Jeremy Butterfield and John Earman (eds.), Amsterdam: Elsevier, 731–922. (Scholar)
Hartmann, S., 2001, “Effective field theories, reductionism, and explanation”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 32: 267–304. (Scholar)
Hättich, F., 2004, Quantum Processes — A Whiteheadian Interpretation of Quantum Field Theory, Münster: agenda Verlag. (Scholar)
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Heisenberg, W. and W. Pauli, 1929, “Zur Quantendynamik der Wellenfelder”, Zeitschrift für Physik, 56: 1–61. (Scholar)
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Horuzhy, S. S., 1990, Introduction to Algebraic Quantum Field Theory, 1st edition, Dordrecht et al.: Kluwer. (Scholar)
Huggett, N., 2000, “Philosophical foundations of quantum field theory”, The British Journal for the Philosophy Science, 51: 617–637. (Scholar)
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Kadison, R., and J. Ringrose, 1997, Fundamentals of the Theory of Operator Algebras, Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society. (Scholar)
Kaku, M., 1999, Introduction to Superstrings and M-Theory, New York: Springer. (Scholar)
Kantorovich, A., 2003, “The priority of internal symmetries in particle physics”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 34: 651–675. (Scholar)
Kastler, D. (ed.), 1990, The Algebraic Theory of Superselection Sectors: Introduction and Recent Results, Singapore et al.: World Scientific. (Scholar)
Kiefer, C., 2007, Quantum Gravity, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Second edition. (Scholar)
Kronz, F. and T. Lupher, 2005, “Unitarily inequivalent representations in algebraic quantum theory”, International Journal of Theoretical Physics, 44: 1239–1258. (Scholar)
Kuhlmann, M., 2010a, The Ultimate Constituents of the Material World – In Search of an Ontology for Fundamental Physics, Frankfurt: ontos Verlag. (Scholar)
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–––, 2011, “Review of “From Current Algebra to Quantum Chromodynamics: A Case for Structural Realism” by T. Y. Cao”, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, available online. (Scholar)
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Mandl, F. and G. Shaw, 2010, Quantum Field Theory, Chichester (UK): John Wiley & Sons, second ed. (Scholar)
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