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This category includes websites on topics such 'Scientific Revolutions' and 'paradigm shifts' as well on the interaction of physical science with the philosophy of the time, such as the postivistic philosophy of Mach and Carnap, and their influence on Quantum Mechanics (QM) and Relativity.

Subcategories

• Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics
• Metaphysics
• Mind-Body, Consciousness, Quantum Computing
• Physics in Popular Culture
• Quantum Reality and Locality
• Seeds and Escapes
• Time and Timelessness

Resources in This Category

• A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram

  http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/
  Science from the point of view of complex systems: from the origins of apparent randomness in physical systems, to the development of complexity in biology.

• A Simple Theory of Consciousness

  http://www.scaruffi.com/science/sweden.html
  Essay on evolution and consciousness by Piero Scaruffi.

• Chronon Critical Points

  http://www.chronon.org/
  Scientific applets, articles and book critically examine claims made in popular books

• Events in History of Physics

  http://history.hyperjeff.net/
  Time-lines of thermodynamics, electromagnetism, and symmetry. With links to other time-lines and resources.

• Experiment in Physics

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/physics-experiment/
  On the uses, value, and epistomelogy of experiment. By Allan Franklin, University of Colorado.

• Identity and Individuality in Quantum Theory

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qt-idind/
  Assesses the metaphysical implications of quantum theory by considering the impact of the theory on our understanding of objects as individuals with well defined identity conditions. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Steven French.

• Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions

  http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/kuhn.htm
  Crucial chapter from Kuhn's famous book outlining how sciences is forced to go through a paradigm-shift, and see the world in terms of a new theory and new concepts.

• MathPages: Physics

  http://www.mathpages.com/home/iphysics.htm
  Collection of essays, not always orthodox, but always lucid, on historical and important current issues in mathematics and physics.

• Philosophical Foundations of Physics by R. Carnap

  http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/carnap.htm
  Positivist view of Physics, which had influenced the Copenhagen Interpretation of the Quantum mechanics (CI).

• Philosophy and Foundations

  http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/r/e/redingtn/www/netadv/founds.html
  A collection of links, from Norman Redington at MIT.

• PhilSci Archive - Subject: Physics

  http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/view/subjects/physics.html
  Collection of papers on causality, free will etc

• Quantum Quackery

  http://www.csicop.org/si/show/quantum_quackery/
  Skeptical overview of proposed links between quantum mechanics and consciousness.

• Review of "The Emperor's New Mind", by Roger Penrose

  http://www.friesian.com/penrose.htm
  His exploration is so much more serious philosophically than almost anything that has been done since Einstein and Schrodinger

• Science and Philosophy

  http://sciphilos.info/
  Comprises a high school course that offers source writings for study of the relationship between philosophical and scientific discoveries and personal world-views.

• Science, Pseudoscience and Society

  http://www.softpanorama.org/Skeptics/index.shtml
  Papers by Feynman on paranormal 'sciences', Sokal Affair (use of pseudo-physics in social sciences), critique of Kuhn. Also a collection of links.

• Space and Time: Inertial Frames

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spacetime-iframes/
  On the frames of reference relative to which motion and rest are measured; by Robert DiSalle.

• The Bactra Reviews

  http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/reviews/
  A set of book and article reviews, not limited to physics.

• The Mind of God

  http://dannyreviews.com/h/The_Mind_of_God.html
  A review of Paul Davies' exposition of foundational philosophical issues.

• Varieties of Explanatory Autonomy

  http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/2823/1/Varieties_of_Explanatory_Autonomy.pdf
  Transcript of a talk by Lawrence Sklar discussing areas of physics not directly explicable by fundamental dynamic principles alone.

• Wikipedia - EPR Paradox

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_paradox
  Measurement performed on one part of a quantum system can have an instantaneous effect on the result of a measurement performed on another part. Entaglment.

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