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physics.class-ph2004★ 20 cited
Between Laws and Models: Some Philosophical Morals of Lagrangian Mechanics
Jeremy Butterfield
I extract some philosophical morals from some aspects of Lagrangian mechanics. (A companion paper will present similar morals from Hamiltonian mechanics and Hamilton-Jacobi theory.…
physics.class-ph2004★ 7 cited
On the Persistence of Homogeneous Matter
Jeremy Butterfield
Some recent philosophical debate about persistence has focussed on an argument against perdurantism that discusses rotating perfectly homogeneous discs (the `rotating discs argumen…
physics.class-ph2004★ 19 cited
On the Persistence of Particles
Jeremy Butterfield
This paper is about the metaphysical debate whether objects persist over time by the selfsame object existing at different times (nowadays called `endurance' by metaphysicians), or…