philosophy and physics of time
“The Vicarage Iconoclast: Whitehead, Leibniz, Relativity and the Quantum”: Qeios January 26, 2026; doi: https://doi.org/10.32388/932RTK.4Leibniz’sCausalTheoryofTime-Arthur.odf
“On the Significance of A. A. Robb’s Philosophy of Time, Especially in Relation to Russell’s”, pp. 251–273 in British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 31, 2, a special issue of BJHP guest-edited by Emily Thomas, 2022. [On the significance of A A Robbs philosophy of time especiaIly in relation to Bertrand Russell s.pdf].
“Leibniz’s Causal Theory of Time Revisited”, Leibniz Review, 26, 2016, 151-178. [Leibniz’sCausalTheoryofTime-Arthur.pdf]
“Virtual Processes and Quantum Tunnelling as Fictions”, Science & Education, 21, 10, 1461-1474, October 2012. [preprint]
“Time Atomism and Ash‘arite Origins for Cartesian Occasionalism, Revisited”, 73-92 in Asia, Europe and the Emergence of Modern Science: Knowledge Crossing Boundaries, ed. Arun Bala, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. [Ash’ariteOrigins.pdf]
“Beeckman’s Discrete Moments and Descartes’ Disdain”, Intellectual History Review (Special Issue on Absolute Space and Time, ed. Ed Slowik and Geoffrey Gorham), 22, 1, 69-90, Dec. 2011. [IHR-BdmaDd.pdf]
“Minkowski’s Proper Time and the Status of the Clock Hypothesis”, pp. 159-180 in Space, Time and Spacetime, ed. Vesselin Petkov, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag, 2010. [ProperTime&ClockHypothesis.pdf]
“Materialist Theories of Time”, pp. 43-62 in Chronotopologies: Hybrid Spatialities and Multiple Temporalities, ed. and introduced by Leslie Kavanaugh, Rodopi Press, Amsterdam/New York, 2010. [preprint]
“Time Lapse and the Degeneracy of Time: Gödel, Proper Time and Becoming in Relativity Theory,” in The Ontology of Spacetime II, ed. Dennis Dieks, Elsevier, 2008, pp. 207-227. [TimeLapse.pdf]
“Time, Inertia and the Relativity Principle”: (archived in the PhilSci Archives at Pittsburgh); from the Symposium on Time and Relativity (Minneapolis, MN, 25-27 October, 2007). Here it is with the reference to Provost’s paper fixed: [preprint]. A related paper in preparation is “Time and Inertia” [abstract]
“Minkowski Spacetime and the Dimensions of the Present”, pp. 129-155 in The Ontology of Spacetime, ed. Dennis Dieks, , Elsevier, 2006. [abstract] [preprint]
“Newton’s Fluxions and Equably Flowing Time,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 28, no. 2, 323-351, June 1995. [NewtonsFluxionsandEquablyFlowingTime.pdf]
“Relations of Time and Space,” pp. 9-16 in Leibniz und Europa, ed. Herbert Breger, Hanover: Gottfried-Willhelm-Leibniz-Gesellschaft, 1994. [Rels.ofTime&Sp.pdf]
“Continuous Creation, Continuous Time: A Refutation of the Alleged Discontinuity of Cartesian Time,” Journal for the History of Philosophy, vol. XXVI, no. 3, July 1988; 349-375. [cont.creation.pdf]
“Leibniz’s Theory of Time,” 263-313 in The Natural Philosophy of Leibniz, ed. Kathleen Okruhlik and James R. Brown, D. Reidel: Dordrecht, 1985. [Leibniz’s Theorv of Time.pdf]
“Exacting a Philosophy of Becoming from Modern Physics,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 63, 2, pp. 101-110, April 1982. [Exacting a Philosophy of Becoming from Modern Physics (1982).pdf]
“Quantal Indeterminacy of Time”, unpublished and incomplete paper dating from April 9, 1980, in which I give a formal derivation of the time-energy indeterminacy relation using non-orthogonal time-eigenstates; kindly set in LaTeX in 2009 by Cody Perrin at the request of Kent Peacock, to both of whom I am much obliged. [preprint] Aug 8, 2016 at 10:36 AM