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How Dualists Should (Not) Respond to the Objection from Energy Conservation
Alin C. Cucu, J. Brian Pitts
The principle of energy conservation is widely taken to be a serious difficulty for interactionist dualism (whether property or substance). Interactionists often have therefore tri…
Historical and Philosophical Insights about General Relativity and Space-time from Particle Physics
J. Brian Pitts
Historians recently rehabilitated Einstein's "physical strategy" for General Relativity (GR). Independently, particle physicists similarly re-derived Einstein's equations for a mas…
Progress and Gravity: Overcoming Divisions between General Relativity and Particle Physics and between Physics and HPS
J. Brian Pitts
Reflective equilibrium between physics and philosophy, and between GR and particle physics, is fruitful and rational. I consider the virtues of simplicity, conservatism, and concep…
What Are Observables in Hamiltonian Einstein-Maxwell Theory?
J. Brian Pitts
Is change missing in Hamiltonian Einstein-Maxwell theory? Given the most common definition of observables (having weakly vanishing Poisson bracket with each first-class constraint)…
Cosmological Constant vs. Massive Gravitons: A Case Study in General Relativity Exceptionalism vs. Particle Physics Egalitarianism
J. Brian Pitts
The renaissance of General Relativity witnessed considerable progress regarding both understanding and justifying Einstein's equations. Both general relativists and historians of t…