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John Bell on 'Subject and Object': an Exchange
Hans Halvorson, Jeremy Butterfield
This three-part paper comprises: (i) a critique by Halvorson of Bell's (1973) paper "Subject and Object"; (ii) a comment by Butterfield; (iii) a reply by Halvorson. An Appendix giv…
Peaceful Coexistence: Examining Kent's Relativistic Solution to the Quantum Measurement Problem
Jeremy Butterfield
Can there be `peaceful coexistence' between quantum theory and special relativity? Thirty years ago, Shimony hoped that isolating the culprit (i.e. the false assumption) in proofs…
The Oxford Questions on the foundations of quantum physics
G. A. D. Briggs, J. N. Butterfield, A. Zeilinger
The twentieth century saw two fundamental revolutions in physics -- relativity and quantum. Daily use of these theories can numb the sense of wonder at their immense empirical succ…
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…
Stochastic Einstein Locality Revisited
Jeremy Butterfield
I discuss various formulations of stochastic Einstein locality (SEL), which is a version of the idea of relativistic causality, i.e. the idea that influences propagate at most as f…
Reconsidering Relativistic Causality
Jeremy Butterfield
I discuss the idea of relativistic causality, i.e. the requirement that causal processes or signals can propagate only within the light-cone. After briefly locating this requiremen…