Jeremy Butterfield - Publications

Publications

Books

• Philosophy of Physics (Handbook of the Philosophy of Science) 2 volume set (ed. with John Earman), North Holland, 2006.
• Quantum Entanglements: Selected Papers of Rob Clifton (ed. with Hans Halverson), Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Non-Locality and Modality (ed. with Thomasz Placek), Kluwer Academic Publishing, 2002.
• The Arguments of Time (ed.), Oxford University Press, 2000.
• From Physics to Philosophy (ed. with Constantine Pagonis), Cambridge University Press 1999.
• Spacetime (ed. with Mark Hogarth and Gordon Belot), Dartmouth Publishing, 1996.
• Language, Mind and Logic (ed.), Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Research Articles in Journals

• On Time chez Dummett, forthcoming in European Journal of Analytic Philosophy.
• On Kinds of Indiscernibility in Logic and Metaphysics (with A. Caulton), forthcoming in British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
• Symmetries and Paraparticles as a Motivation for Structuralism (with A. Caulton), forthcoming in British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
• Emergence, Reduction and Supervenience: A Varied Landscape, Foundations of Physics 41, 2011, 920-959.
• Less is Different: Emergence and Reduction Reconciled, Foundations of Physics 41, 2011, 1065-1135.
• Laws, Causation and Dynamics at different Levels, Interface Focus (Royal Society London) 1, 2011, 1-14.
• Stochastic Einstein Locality Revisited, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 58, 2007, 805-867.
• Reconsidering Relativistic Causality, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 21, 2007, 295-328.
• Against Pointillisme in Mechanics, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 57, 2006, 709-754.
• The Rotating Discs Argument Defeated, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 57, 2006, 1-45.
• On the Persistence of Particles, Foundations of Physics 35, 2005, 233-269.
• David Lewis Meets Hamilton and Jacobi, Philosophy of Science 71, 2004, 1095-1106.
• The End of Time? British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 53, 2002, 289-330.
• The State of Physics: Halfway through the Woods, The Journal of Soft Computing 5, 2001, 129-130.
• A Topos Perspective on the Kochen-Specker Theorem IV: Interval Valuations (with C. J. Isham), International Journal on Theoretical Physics 41, 2002, 141, 613-639.
• Some Possible Roles for Topos Theory in Quantum Theory and Quantum Gravity (with C. Isham), Foundations of Physics 30, 2000, 1707-1735.
• A Topos Perspective on the Kochen-Specker Theorem III: Von Neumann Algebras as the Base Category (with J. Hamilton and C. J. Isham), International Journal on Theoretical Physics 39, 2000, 1413-1416.
• A Topos Perspective on the Kochen-Specker Theorem II: Conceptual Aspects and Classical Analogues (with C. J. Isham), International Journal on Theoretical Physics 38, 1999, 827-859.
• A Topos Perspective on the Kochen-Specker Theorem I: Quantum States as Generalized Valuations (with C. J. Isham), International Journal on Theoretical Physics 11, 1998, 2669-2733.
• Whither the Minds, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 47, 1996, 200-221.
• Is Algebraic Lorentz-Covariant Quantum Field Theory Stochastic Einstein Local? (with F. A. Muller), Philosophy of Science 61, 1994, 457-474.
• Interpretation and Identity in Quantum Theory, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 24, 1993, 443-476.
• Forms of Probabilistic Ascriptions, International Journal of Theoretical Physics 32, 1993, 2271–2286
• Parameter Dependence and Outcome Dependence in Dynamical Models for State Vector Reduction (with C. Chirardi, R. Grassi and G. Fleming), Foundations of Physics 23, 1993, 341-364. (An improved version is in International Journal of Theoretical Physics 32, 1993, 2287-2304.)
• A Galois Connection Approach to Superposition and Inaccessibility (with J. Melia), International Journal of Theoretical Physics 32, 1993, 2305-2321.
• David Lewis Meets John Bell, Philosophy of Science 59, 1992, 26-43.
• Bell’s Theorem: What it Takes, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 43, 1992, 41-83.
• Probabilities and Conditionals: Distinctions by Example, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society New Series 92, 1992, 251-272.
• Generalization of the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger Algebraic Proof of Nonlocality (with R. K. Clifton and M. L. G. Redhead), Foundations of Physics 21, 1991, 149-184.
• A Second Look at a Recent Algebraic Proof of Nonlocality (with R. K. Clifton, M. L. G. Redhead), Foundations of Physics Letters 4, 1991, 395-403.
• Nonlocal Influences and Possible Worlds—A Stapp in the Wrong Direction (with R. K. Clifton, M. L. G. Redhead), British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 41, 1990, 5-48.
• Causal Independence in EPR Arguments, PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1990, 213-225.
• The Hole Truth, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 40, 1989, 1-28.
• Albert Einstein Meets David Lewis, PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, 1988, 65-81 .
• Determinism and Substantivalism, International Studies in Philosophy of Science 2, 1988, 10-32.
• Do the Bell Inequalities Require the Existence of Joint Probability Distributions? (with G. Svetlichny, M. L. G. Readhead and H. Brown), Philosophy of Science 55, 1988, 387-401.
• Substantivalism and Determinism, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 2, 1987, 10-32.
• Predicate Modifiers in Tense Logic (with C. Stirling), Logique et Analyse 117, 1987, 31- 50.
• Determinism and Probability Physics (with P. Clark), Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volumes 61, 1987, 185-243.
• Probability and Disturbing Measurement, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volumes 61, 1987, 211-243.
• Spatial and Temporal Parts, The Philosophical Quarterly 35, 1985, 32-44 .
• Relationism and Possible Worlds, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 35, 1984, 101-113.
• On Spurious Egocentricity, Analysis 44, 1984, 25-29.
• Seeing the Present, Mind 270, 1984, 161-176 .
• Dummett on Temporal Operators, The Philosophical Quarterly 34, 1984, 31-43.
• Prior’s Conception of Time, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society New Series 84, 1984, 193-209.

Research Contributions in Books

• Emergence and Reduction Combined in Phase Transitions (with N. Bouatta), forthcoming in Proceedings of Frontiers of Fundamental Physics 11 (American Institute of Physics), eds. J. Kouneiher, C. Barbachoux and D. Vey.
• Against Pointillisme: a Call to Arms, in Explanation, Prediction and Confirmation, 2011, eds. D. Dieks, W. Gonzalez, S. Hartmann, T. Uebel and M. Weber, Springer, 347-366.
• On Symmetries and Conserved Quantities in Classical Mechanics, in Physical Theory and its Interpretation, 2006, eds. W. Demopoulos and I. Pitowsky, Springer, 43-99.
• On Symplectic Reduction in Classical Mechanics, in The Handbook of Philosophy of Physics, 2006, eds. J. Butterfield and J. Earman, North Holland, 1-131.
• Against Pointillisme in Geometry, in Time and History, Proceedings of 28th International Wittgenstein Conference, 2006, eds. F. Stadler and M. Stoeltzner, Ontos Verlag, 181-222.
• On Hamilton-Jacobi Theory as a Classical Root of Theory, in Quo Vadis Quantum Mechanics?, 2004, eds. A. Elitzur, S. Dolev and N. Kolenda, Springer, 239-273.
• Some Aspects of Modality in Analytical Mechanics, in Formale Teleologie und Kausalitat in der Physik, 2004, eds. P. Weingartner and M. Stoeltzner, Mentis, 160-198.
• Topos Theory as a Framework for Partial Truth, in the Scope of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science (volume 1), 2002, eds. P. Gardenfors, K. Kijania-Placek and J. Wolenski, Kluwer Academic Publishing, 307-329.
• Some Worlds of Quantum Theory, in Quantum Mechanics (Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action vol 5), eds. R.J. Russell, P. Clayton, K. Wegter-McNelly, and J. Polkinghorne, Vatican Observatory Publications, 111-140.
• Spacetime and the Philosophical Challenge of Quantum Gravity, in Physics meets Philosophy at the Planck Scale, 2001, eds. C. Callender and N. Huggett, Cambridge University Press, 33-89.
• On the Emergence of Time in Quantum Gravity (with C. Isham), in The Arguments of Time, 1991, ed. J. Butterfield, Oxford University Press, 111-168.
• Strange Positions (with G. Fleming), in From Physics to Philosophy', 1999, eds. J. Butterfield and C. Pagonis, Cambridge University Press, 108-165.
• Quantum Curiosities of Psychophysics, in Consciousness and Human Identity, 1998, ed. J. Cornwell, Oxford University Press, 122-157.
• Vacuum Correlations and Outcome Dependence in Algebraic Quantum Field Theory, in Fundamental Problems in Quantum Theory, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1995, eds. D. Greenberger and A. Zeilinger, Proceedings of a conference in honour of John Wheeler, 768-785.
• Outcome Dependence and Stochastic Einstein Nonlocality, in Logic and Philosophy of Science in Uppsala (Selected Papers from the 9th International Congress of Logic Methodology and Philosophy of Science), 1994, eds. D. Prawitz and D. Westerdahl, Kluwer, 385-424.
• Is there Superluminal Causation in Quantum Theory? (with G. Fleming), in Bell's Theorem and the Foundations of Modern Physics, 1992, eds. A. van der Merwe, F. Selleri and G. Tarozzi, World Scientific, 203-207.
• A Spacetime Approach to the Bell Inequality, in Philosophical Lessons from Quantum Theory, 1989, eds. J. Cushing and E. McMullin, University of Notre Dame Press, 114-144.
• Content and Context, in Language, Mind and Logic, 1986, ed. J. Butterfield, Cambridge University Press, 91-122.
• Indexicals and Tense, in Exercises in Analysis, 1984, ed. I. Hacking, Cambridge University Press, 69-87.
• Measurement, Unitarity and Laws, in Space, Time and Causality, 1982, ed. R. Swinburne, Reidel, 135-147.