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Ceci n'est pas un gluon
India Bhalla-Ladd, Eleanor March, James Owen Weatherall
We discuss and then resolve a tension between how physicists treat gauge bosons and the celebrated "Wu-Yang dictionary", which identifies particle physics terminology with that of…
Correctness, Artificial Intelligence, and the Epistemic Value of Mathematical Proof
James Owen Weatherall, Jesse Wolfson
We argue that it is neither necessary nor sufficient for a mathematical proof to have epistemic value that it be "correct", in the sense of formalizable in a formal proof system. W…
We Have Never Been Sophisticated
Clara Bradley, James Owen Weatherall
Many philosophers of physics maintain that a physical theory that exhibits (certain kinds of) symmetries is flawed, on the grounds that such theories posit "excess structure". In a…
Natural Theories
James Owen Weatherall, Eleanor March
We consider the class of physical theories whose dynamics are given by natural equations, which are partial differential equations determined by a functor from the category of n-ma…
On (Some) Gauge Theories of Gravity
James Owen Weatherall
I consider the sense in which teleparallel gravity and symmetric teleparallel gravity may be understood as gauge theories of gravity. I first argue that both theories have surplus…
Spacetime Models for Cosmology
James Owen Weatherall
I revisit Roberto Torretti's "Spacetime Models for the World" [SHPMP 31 (2):171-186 (2000)] in the light of more recent work in (philosophy of) cosmology. I discuss the motivations…