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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…
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…
Discerning "indistinguishable" quantum systems
Adam Caulton
In a series of recent papers, Simon Saunders, Fred Muller and Michael Seevinck have collectively argued, against the philosophy of quantum mechanics folklore, that some non-trivial…
Qualitative individuation in permutation-invariant quantum mechanics
Adam Caulton
In this article I expound an understanding of the quantum mechanics of so-called "indistinguishable" systems in which permutation invariance is taken as a symmetry of a special kin…
Physical entanglement in permutation-invariant quantum mechanics
Adam Caulton
The purpose of this short article is to build on the work of Ghirardi, Marinatto and Weber (Ghirardi, Marinatto & Weber 2002; Ghirardi & Marinatto 2003, 2004, 2005) and Ladyman, Li…
Is mereology empirical? Composition for fermions
Adam Caulton
How best to think about quantum systems under permutation invariance is a question that has received a great deal of attention in the literature. But very little attention has been…
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…
Symmetries and Paraparticles as a Motivation for Structuralism
Adam Caulton, Jeremy Butterfield
This paper develops an analogy proposed by Stachel between general relativity (GR) and quantum mechanics (QM) as regards permutation invariance. Our main idea is to overcome Pooley…
Cold gas in elliptical galaxies
A. Georgakakis, A. M. Hopkins, A. Caulton +3
We explore the evolution of the cold gas (molecular and neutral hydrogen) of elliptical galaxies and merger remnants ordered into a time sequence on the basis of spectroscopic age…