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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. |
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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. |
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Experiment in Physics - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/physics-experiment/
On the uses, value, and epistomelogy of experiment. By Allan Franklin, University of Colorado. |
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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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Quantum Quackery - http://www.csicop.org/si/9701/quantum-quackery.html
Skeptical overview of QM and consciousness connection. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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). |
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A New Kind of Science - critical review - http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0464.html?printable=1
Detailed and critical review by Ray Kurzweil of the book by Stephen Wolfram. |
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Shakespeare and Thermodynamics - Dam the Second Law! - http://www.shakespeare2ndlaw.com/
What the second law of thermodynamics is all about, and how it is constantly 'dammed' or blocked by activation energy |
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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. |
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Life and Physics - http://www.panmere.com/rosen/
Biological systems demonstrate complexities beyond the strictures of Newtonian mechanics. (Robert Rosen) |
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The Mind of God - http://dannyreviews.com/h/The_Mind_of_God.html
A review of Paul Davies' exposition of foundational philosophical issues. |
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Philosophy of Physics - http://www.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~suchii/physics.index.html
A collection of articles and notes from Soshichi Uchii, at Kyoto University. |
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Varieties of Explanatory Autonomy - http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00002823/01/Varieties_of_Explanatory_Autonomy.pdf
Transcript of a talk by Lawrence Sklar discussing areas of physics not directly explicable by fundamental dynamic principles alone. [PDF] |