Recent content by Rollo

In terms of philosophical knowledge holding back vs. advantaging physicists, a few thoughts: 1. One of the difficulties here is disentangling formal philosophical commitments from philosophical background assumptions and ideas that we all have. For example (off the top of my head not...

Leaving aside quantum foundations, which is an active area of interdisciplinary research involving physicists and philosophers, there are a number of other live questions in contemporary physics where I think a philosophically informed perspective is valuable. For example: the soundness and...

Many thanks! I shall read the article :)

Thanks all for speedy and helpful responses! Ps annoyed with myself for leaving out the critical d before t, x, etc. Even I knew that! :)

I am self-studying GR, using principally Carroll’s textbook and Alex Maloney’s online lectures, and nice book by a guy called Herbert Roseman. I am a bit confused by alternative ways of expressing the metric and it would be most helpful if someone could clarify J Basically, I am perplexed by...

Hi everyone. I'm self-studying physics: basically I studied philosophy at university and still read quite a bit, I got interested in the philosophy of physics about 2 years ago, then realized I needed to know more physics to get into this literature properly. Formally speaking I only did physics...