3 papers
physics.hist-ph2024
Hume's dictum as a guide to ontology
Adam Caulton
In this paper I aim to defend one version at least of Hume's dictum: roughly, the idea that possibility is determined by ontology through something like independent variation. My d…
quant-ph2024
Is a particle an irreducible representation of the Poincaré group?
Adam Caulton
The claim that a particle is an irreducible representation of the Poincaré group -- what I call \emph{Wigner's identification} -- is now, decades on from Wigner's (1939) original p…
physics.hist-ph2011
On Kinds of Indiscernibility in Logic and Metaphysics
Adam Caulton, Jeremy Butterfield
Using the Hilbert-Bernays account as a spring-board, we first define four ways in which two objects can be discerned from one another, using the non-logical vocabulary of the langu…