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 unstableontology.com
A critical agential account of free will, causation, and physics - Unstable Ontology
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Defining disciplinary research in the social sciences - Understanding Society
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| | The "historical turn" in the philosophy of science in the 1960s and 1970s gave most of its attention to the development of the physical sciences -- especially physics itself. (See Tom Nickles' essay "Historicist Theories of Scientific Rationality" in theStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophyfor a detailed account of this development in the philosophy of science;link.) Historian-philosophers...
| | whyevolutionistrue.com
Philip Ball says that physics has nothing to do with free will. Part 1. - Why Evolution Is True
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| | I'm getting tired of writing about free will, as what I'm really interested in is determinism of the physics sort, and, as far as we know, determinism is true except in the realm of quantum mechanics-where it may still be true, but probably not. So let me lump quantum mechanics and other physical laws together...
| | 4gravitons.com
Why Quantum Gravity Is Controversial | 4 gravitons
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| | Merging quantum mechanics and gravity is a famously hard physics problem. Explaining why merging quantum mechanics and gravity is hard is, in turn, a very hard science communication problem. The more popular descriptions tend to lead to misunderstandings, and I've posted many times over the years to chip away at those misunderstandings. Merging quantum mechanics...
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Physics in Metal - Neustadt.fr
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| Metal bands aren't afraid to tackle serious topics in their lyrics. Here, we look at metal songs that deal with concepts in theoretical physics and cosmology.