John D. Norton | Academic Influence

Q: What Schools Are Affiliated With John D. Norton

John D. Norton is affiliated with the following schools: University of New South Wales, University of Pittsburgh

Why Is John D. Norton Influential?

According to Wikipedia, John Daniel Norton is an Australian philosopher of physics and distinguished professor of the history and philosophy of science at the University of Pittsburgh. Biography He had originally studied chemical engineering at the University of New South Wales . After working at the Shell Oil Refinery at Clyde, Sydney for two years, he decided to switch fields, beginning doctoral studies in the School of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of New South Wales . His dissertation was titled "The Historical Foundation of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity." After finishing his dissertation, he worked at the Princeton University Press on the Einstein Papers Project under the direction of John Stachel. From 1983 until the present, he has been in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, first as a visiting faculty member, then as a full professor, serving as Chair of the department from 2000 to 2005. He is currently Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science.

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John D. Norton's Published Works

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Published Works

What Price Spacetime Substantivalism? The Hole Story (1987) (414)
General covariance and the foundations of general relativity: eight decades of dispute (1993) (382)
Causation as Folk Science (2003) (228)
What was Einstein's principle of equivalence? (1985) (221)
How Einstein Found His Field Equations: 1912-1915 (1984) (211)
Are Thought Experiments Just What You Thought? (1996) (190)
The Hole Argument (1988) (163)
Approximation and Idealization: Why the Difference Matters* (2012) (150)
Thought Experiments in Einstein's Work (1991) (148)
Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (2016) (144)
Exorcist XIV: The wrath of maxwell’s demon. Part II. from szilard to Landauer and beyond (1999) (137)
Forever Is a Day: Supertasks in Pitowsky and Malament-Hogarth Spacetimes (1993) (136)
The Dome: An Unexpectedly Simple Failure of Determinism (2008) (132)
A Material Theory of Induction* (2003) (124)
Exorcist XIV: The Wrath of Maxwell’s Demon. Part I. From Maxwell to Szilard (1998) (119)
Eaters of the Lotus: Landauer's Principle and the Return of Maxwell's Demon (2005) (118)
Why Thought Experiments Do Not Transcend Empiricism (2002) (107)
On Thought Experiments: Is There More to the Argument? (2004) (105)
The Cosmological Woes of Newtonian Gravitation Theory (1999) (88)
The attraction of gravitation : new studies in the history of general relativity (1993) (87)
Einstein, Nordström, and the Early Demise of Scalar, Lorentz Covariant Theories of Gravitation (1992) (87)
EINSTEIN, THE HOLE ARGUMENT AND THE REALITY OF SPACE (1987) (81)
Infinite pains: the trouble with supertasks (1996) (81)
`Nature is the Realisation of the Simplest Conceivable Mathematical Ideas': Einstein and the Canon of Mathematical Simplicity (2000) (80)
Waiting for Landauer (2011) (78)
Must Evidence Underdetermine Theory (2003) (75)
Einstein’s Investigations of Galilean Covariant Electrodynamics Prior to 1905 (2004) (71)
Why Constructive Relativity Fails (2008) (69)
Ignorance and Indifference* (2008) (67)
Coordinates and covariance: Einstein's view of space-time and the modern view (1989) (67)
Atoms, entropy, quanta: Einstein's miraculous argument of 1905 (2006) (60)
Out of the Labyrinth: Einstein, Hertz and Göttingen Answer to the Hole Argument (1993) (57)
Science and certainty (1994) (57)
A Little Survey of Induction (2003) (56)
The determination of theory by evidence: The case for quantum discontinuity, 1900–1915 (1993) (56)
Time Really Passes (2010) (55)
The Physical Content of General Covariance (1992) (55)
A Quantum Mechanical Supertask (1999) (55)
The Logical Inconsistency of the Old Quantum Theory of Black Body Radiation (1987) (53)
General Covariance, Gauge Theories and the Kretschmann Objection. (2001) (52)
The Cosmos of Science: Essays of Exploration (1997) (51)
The Force of Newtonian Cosmology: Acceleration Is Relative (1995) (51)
Is There an Independent Principle of Causality in Physics? (2008) (51)
How Science Works (1998) (50)
Why Monte Carlo Simulations Are Inferences and Not Experiments (2012) (49)
A Paradox in Newtonian Gravitation Theory (1992) (49)
All Shook Up: Fluctuations, Maxwell's Demon and the Thermodynamics of Computation (2013) (47)
Cosmic Confusions: Not Supporting versus Supporting Not* (2010) (46)
How Hume and Mach Helped Einstein Find Special Relativity (2004) (45)
A material dissolution of the problem of induction (2014) (44)
There Are No Universal Rules for Induction (2010) (43)
Eliminative Induction as a Method of Discovery: How Einstein Discovered General Relativity (1995) (40)
The Impossible Process: Thermodynamic Reversibility (2016) (39)
Challenges to Bayesian Confirmation Theory (2011) (34)
Did Einstein Stumble? The debate over general covariance (1995) (33)
The Cosmos of Science (1997) (33)
What Is A Newtonian System? The Failure Of Energy Conservation And Determinism In Supertasks (2004) (32)
Probability Disassembled (2007) (32)
How We Know about Electrons (2000) (31)
Geometries in Collision: Einstein, Klein and Riemann (1999) (31)
Comments on Laraudogoitia's ‘Classical Particle Dynamics, Indeterminism and a Supertask’ (1998) (31)
Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity and the Problems in the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies That Led Him to It (2014) (30)
Mach's Principle before Einstein (1995) (28)
What was Einstein's “Fateful Prejudice”? (2007) (28)
Chasing the Light: Einstein’s Most Famous Thought Experiment (2012) (28)
Einstein and Nordström: Some Lesser-Known Thought Experiments in Gravitation (1993) (24)
Do the Causal Principles of Modern Physics Contradict Causal Anti-Fundamentalism? (2006) (24)
What Can We Learn about the Ontology of Space and Time from the Theory of Relativity (2000) (22)
Einstein, Nordström and the early demise of scalar, Lorentz-covariant theories of gravitation (1992) (22)
Introduction to Volumes 1 and 2: The Zurich Notebook and the Genesis of General Relativity (2007) (21)
What should philosophers of science learn from the history of the electron (2001) (21)
The End of the Thermodynamics of Computation: A No-Go Result (2013) (21)
Observationally Indistinguishable Spacetimes (2009) (17)
How to build an infinite lottery machine (2018) (16)
Where the Sum of Our Expectation Fails Us: The Exchange Paradox (1998) (16)
Observationally Indistinguishable Spacetimes: A Challenge for Any Inductivist (2011) (15)
The N-Stein Family (2003) (15)
History of science and the material theory of induction: Einstein’s quanta, mercury’s perihelion (2011) (15)
A Conjecture on Einstein, the Independent Reality of Spacetime Coordinate Systems and the Disaster of 1913 (2005) (15)
Deconstructing the Fear of Feminity (1997) (14)
The Material Theory of Induction (2021) (13)
A Paradox in Newtonian Cosmology II (1993) (12)
Replicability of Experiment (2015) (12)
WHEN THE SUM OF OUR EXPECTATIONS FAILS US : THE EXCHANGE PARADOX BY (1998) (12)
The Burning Fuse Model of Unbecoming in Time (2015) (11)
How Einstein Did Not Discover (2016) (11)
How the Formal Equivalence of Grue and Green Defeats What is New in the New Riddle of Induction (2006) (11)
The genesis of general relativity Vol. 2: Einstein's Zurich notebook: commentary and essays (2007) (11)
Einstein's triumph over the spacetime coordinate system: A paper presented in honor of Roberto Torretti (2001) (10)
Introduction to the Philosophy of Space and Time (1992) (10)
A Survey of Inductive Generalization (2010) (9)
Eternal inflation: when probabilities fail (2018) (9)
Disbelief as the Dual of Belief (2007) (9)
Thermodynamically reversible processes in statistical physics (2017) (8)
Einstein's Struggle with General Covariance (1983) (8)
Eliminative Induction as a Method of Discovery: Einstein's Discovery of General Relativity (1995) (8)
The Formal Equivalence of Grue and Green and How It Undoes the New Riddle of Induction (2003) (8)
Little boxes: A simple implementation of the Greenberger, Horne, and Zeilinger result for spatial degrees of freedom (2011) (8)
Brownian Computation Is Thermodynamically Irreversible (2013) (7)
The genesis of general relativity Vol. 1: Einstein's Zurich notebook: introduction and source (2007) (7)
Limit theorems for Dempster's rule of combination (1988) (7)
Deductively Definable Logics of Induction (2010) (7)
Correction to John D. Norton “How to build an infinite lottery machine” (2018) (7)
The Worst Thought Experiment (2016) (6)
Maxwell's Demon Does Not Compute (2017) (6)
Discovering the Relativity of Simultaneity How did Einstein take "The Step"? (2006) (5)
Galileo's Refutation of the Speed‐Distance Law of Fall Rehabilitated (2012) (5)
Author's Reply to Landauer Defended (2013) (5)
How to Make Possibility Safe for Empiricists (2020) (4)
Einstein’s Conflicting Heuristics: The Discovery of General Relativity (2018) (4)
The Quest For The One Way Velocity Of Light (1986) (4)
How NOT to build an infinite lottery machine. (2019) (4)
Inference to the Best Explanation: The General Account (2018) (4)
Philosophy in Einstein’s Science (2012) (4)
The theory of random propositions (1994) (4)
Causation as Folk Science (The Italian Translation) (2003) (4)
On the discovery of the gravitational field equations by Einstein and Hilbert: new materials (2017) (3)
Author's responses. (2020) (3)
A COMMENTARY ON THE NOTES ON GRAVITY IN THE ZURICH NOTEBOOK (2007) (3)
Einstein’s Miraculous Argument of 1905: The Thermodynamic Grounding of Light Quanta (2007) (3)
Contours in the Text: Textual Variation in the Writings of Paul, Josephus and the Yahad (2011) (2)
An Infinite Lottery Paradox (2021) (2)
Infinite Lottery Machines (2021) (2)
A Demonstration of the Incompleteness of Calculi of Inductive Inference (2018) (2)
On Brownian computation (2014) (2)
Einstein as the Greatest of the Nineteenth Century Physicists (2012) (2)
Dense and Sparse Meaning Spaces (2012) (2)
. Formal and Material Approaches to Analogical Inference (2012) (1)
Paradoxes of Sailing (2012) (1)
What Can We Learn About the Ontology of Space and Time from the Theory of Relativity? A Synopsis (2001) (1)
Induction without Probabilities (2006) (1)
Invariance of Galileo’s Law of Fall under a Change of the Unit of Time (2014) (1)
Composite Quotations in The Damascus Document (2015) (1)
The Inductive Significance of Observationally Indistinguishable Spacetimes (2009) (1)
The development of the annual Festival at Hacibektas, 1964-1885 (1992) (1)
What Was Einstein's (2007) (1)
The Ideal of the Completeness of Calculi of Inductive Inference: An Introductory Guide to its Failure (2015) (1)
Einstein's Miraculous Argument of 1905 (2005) (1)
The Qumran Library and the Shadow it Casts on the Wall of the Cave (2018) (1)
Einstein, Light Signals and the ε-Decision (1982) (1)
Epistemic Virtues and Epistemic Values : A Skeptical Critique (2017) (0)
Weeding Landauer's Garden (2019) (0)
Cosmology and Inductive Inference: A Bayesian Failure (2009) (0)
What can we learn about physical laws from the fact that we have memories only of the past? (2000) (0)
A Material Solution to the Problem of Induction (2009) (0)
A field theory of gravitation in the framework of special relativity (2007) (0)
Short period eclipsing binary candidates identified using (2016) (0)
Lotteries, bookmaking and ancient randomizers: Local and global analyses of chance. (2022) (0)
Book Review:Conceptions of Space and Time: Sources, Evolution, Directions Murad D. Akhundov, Charles Rougle (1990) (0)
A Quantum Inductive Logic (2021) (0)
Erratum to: How to build an infinite lottery machine (2017) (0)
John D. Norton, Juergen Renn, Tilman Sauer, Michel Janssen & John Stachel, - PhilPapers (2007) (0)
The philosophy of space-time: foundations of space-time theories. (1983) (0)
1. Material Theory (2014) (0)
Correction to John D. Norton “How to build an infinite lottery machine” (2017) (0)
2. The Woes of Newtonian Cosmology. In its simplest form, a Newtonian cosmology consists of an infinite three dimensional Euclidean space with (2016) (0)
The Signs of the Times : Conversations on translation : Proceedings of the first conference of the Heythrop Centre for Textual Studies, Heythrop College, London, 9th-10th September 2013 (2016) (0)
A Hot Mess (2019) (0)
Author’s response to Mousa Mohammadian, William Peden and Elay Shech (2022) (0)
Footy Passions [Book Review] (2009) (0)
Einstein, Mach's Principle and the Origins of the General Theory of Relativity (1981) (0)
Inductive Inferences on Galactic Redshift, Understood Materially (2019) (0)
Eternal inflation: when probabilities fail (2018) (0)
Brownian Computation Is Thermodynamically Irreversible (2013) (0)
The Simplest Exorcism of Maxwell's Demon: The Quantum Version (2014) (0)
2 Causation as Folk Science (2018) (0)
How to build an infinite lottery machine (2017) (0)
The Scaling of Speeds and Distances in Galileo's Two New Sciences: A Reply to Palmerino and Laird (2012) (0)
The Philosophy of Space-Time: Foundations of Space-Time Theories . Relativistic Physics and Philosophy of Science. Michael Friedman. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1983. xvi, 386 pp., illus. $35. (1983) (0)
Comment on Lorenz Kruger, "Probability as a Theoretical Concept in Physics" (1986) (0)
Centennial grad will help with supercollider study Regina Caputo will spend the next year studying (2008) (0)
Dense and Sparse Meaning Spaces: When Referential Stability Fails and Succeeds (2017) (0)
A Hot Mess | Articles | Inference: International Review of Science (2019) (0)
DID E INSTEIN S TUMBLE? T HE D EBATE OVER G ENERAL C OVARIANCE (1995) (0)
Inductive Generalization The Archetype : Enumerative Induction (2003) (0)
No Place to Stand : The Incompleteness of All Calculi of Inductive Inference (2017) (0)
The Question Of Scribal Exegesis At Qumran (2009) (0)
A material dissolution of the problem of induction (2013) (0)
Erratum to: How to build an infinite lottery machine (2017) (0)
Little Boxes: The Simplest Demonstration of the Failure of Einstein’s Attempt to Show the Incompleteness of Quantum Theory (2010) (0)
Relativity, Origins of the General Theory (1996) (0)
General Covariance, Gauge Theories and the Kretschmann (2001) (0)
Thermodynamically Reversible Processes in Statistical Physics (Extended Version) (2016) (0)
How Einstein Did Not Discover (2016) (0)
Interim annual report for EL 9250, EL 9602 and EL 7150 (2008) (0)

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