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most citedThe Invisibility of Diffeomorphisms

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8 papers

physics.hist-ph2020

On Empirical Equivalence and Duality

Sebastian De Haro

I argue that, on a judicious reading of two existing criteria--one syntactic and the other semantic--dual theories can be taken to be empirically equivalent. The judicious reading…

physics.hist-ph2019

Towards a Theory of Emergence for the Physical Sciences

Sebastian De Haro

I begin to develop a framework for emergence in the physical sciences. Namely, I propose to explicate ontological emergence in terms of the notion of 'novel reference', and of an a…

physics.hist-ph2019

On Symmetry and Duality

Sebastian De Haro, Jeremy Butterfield

We advocate an account of dualities between physical theories: the basic idea is that dual theories are isomorphic representations of a common core. We defend and illustrate this a…

physics.hist-ph2019

Emergence and Correspondence for String Theory Black Holes

Jeroen van Dongen, Sebastian De Haro, Manus Visser +1

This is one of a pair of papers that give a historical-\emph{cum}-philosophical analysis of the endeavour to understand black hole entropy as a statistical mechanical entropy obtai…

physics.hist-ph2018

A Precipice Below Which Lies Absurdity? Theories without a Spacetime and Scientific Understanding

Sebastian De Haro, Henk W. de Regt

While the relation between visualization and scientific understanding has been a topic of long-standing discussion, recent developments in physics have pushed the boundaries of thi…

physics.hist-ph2018

Duality, Fundamentality, and Emergence

Elena Castellani, Sebastian De Haro

Dualities offer new possibilities for relating fundamentality and emergence. In particular, as is the aim of this chapter to show, it may happen that the relations of fundamentalit…