4 papers
Wigner's Frame
Emily Adlam
This article suggests that thinking about the role of reference frames can provide new insight into Extended Wigner's Friend scenarios. This involves appealing to symmetries to mak…
Relational Observables, Quiddities, and Structural Realism
Emily Adlam
In this article, I argue that modern spacetime physics causes problems for a number of traditional accounts of modality, but also offers important new ideas about the connection be…
Moderate Physical Perspectivalism
Emily Adlam
Recent developments in foundations of physics have given rise to a class of views suggesting that physically meaningful descriptions must always be relativized to a physical perspe…
How do we Observe Relational Observables?
Emily Adlam
In theories with a diffeomorphism symmetry, such as general relativity and canonical quantum gravity, it is often proposed that the empirical content is encoded in relational obser…