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According to Wikipedia, John Earman is an American philosopher of physics. He is an emeritus professor in the History and Philosophy of Science department at the University of Pittsburgh. He has also taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, Rockefeller University, and the University of Minnesota, and was president of the Philosophy of Science Association.

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John Earman's Published Works

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The Cement Of The Universe (1974) (787)
Bayes or Bust?-A Critical Examination of Bayesian Confirmation Theory. (1994) (626)
A Primer on Determinism (1986) (581)
What Price Spacetime Substantivalism? The Hole Story (1987) (414)
Bangs, Crunches, Whimpers, and Shrieks: Singularities and Acausalities in Relativistic Spacetimes (1995) (270)
World enough and space-time : absolute versus relational theories of space and time (1992) (188)
CETERIS PARIBUS, THERE IS NO PROBLEM OF PROVISOS (1999) (182)
Bayes or bust (1992) (181)
Handbook of philosophy of science (2007) (174)
The “Past Hypothesis”: Not even false (2006) (143)
Exorcist XIV: The wrath of maxwell’s demon. Part II. from szilard to Landauer and beyond (1999) (137)
Relativity and Eclipses: The British Eclipse Expeditions of 1919 and Their Predecessors (1980) (136)
Laws, Symmetry, and Symmetry Breaking: Invariance, Conservation Principles, and Objectivity (2004) (136)
Forever Is a Day: Supertasks in Pitowsky and Malament-Hogarth Spacetimes (1993) (136)
CETERIS PARIBUS LOST (2002) (135)
An Introduction To The Philosophy Of Time And Space (1970) (130)
Curie's Principle and spontaneous symmetry breaking (2004) (121)
Exorcist XIV: The Wrath of Maxwell’s Demon. Part I. From Maxwell to Szilard (1998) (119)
Hume's Abject Failure (2000) (117)
An Attempt to Add a Little Direction to "The Problem of the Direction of Time" (1974) (111)
Why Ergodic Theory Does Not Explain the Success of Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics (1996) (101)
Pre-socratic quantum gravity (2001) (99)
Kant, Incongruous Counterparts, And The Nature Of Space And Space-Time (1991) (88)
Hume's Abject Failure: The Argument Against Miracles (2000) (88)
The attraction of gravitation : new studies in the history of general relativity (1993) (87)
Testing Scientific Theories (1984) (83)
Haag’s Theorem and its Implications for the Foundations of Quantum Field Theory (2006) (82)
Underdetermination, Realism, and Reason (1993) (81)
Infinite pains: the trouble with supertasks (1996) (81)
What time reversal invariance is and why it matters (2002) (80)
Thoroughly Modern McTaggart: Or, What McTaggart Would Have Said if He Had Read the General Theory of Relativity (2002) (80)
The Meaning and Status of Newton's Law of Inertia and the Nature of Gravitational Forces (1973) (79)
ASPECTS OF DETERMINISM IN MODERN PHYSICS (2007) (78)
A Critical Look at Inflationary Cosmology (1999) (75)
Do the laws of physics forbid the operation of time machines? (2009) (70)
Lambda: The Constant That Refuses to Die (2001) (69)
Who's afraid of absolute space? (1970) (69)
Einstein and Hilbert: Two months in the history of general relativity (1978) (67)
Einstein's Explanation of the Motion of Mercury's Perihelion (1993) (65)
Tracking down gauge: an ode to the constrained Hamiltonian formalism (2003) (64)
The gravitational red shift as a test of general relativity: history and analysis. (1980) (62)
Laws of Nature: The Empiricist Challenge (1984) (61)
Lost in the tensors: Einstein's struggles with covariance principles 1912–1916 (1978) (58)
From metaphysics to physics (1999) (57)
Handbook of the philosophy of physics (2006) (55)
The Hawking Information Loss Paradox: The Anatomy of Controversy (1999) (55)
Contact with the Nomic: A Challenge for Deniers of Humean Supervenience about Laws of Nature Part I: Humean Supervenience (2005) (53)
The Cosmos of Science: Essays of Exploration (1997) (51)
The Conceptual Foundations of Contemporary Relativity Theory. (1972) (51)
Einstein and Singularities (1999) (51)
Determinism: What We Have Learned and What We Still Don’t Know (2004) (49)
Reassessing the Prospects for a Growing Block Model of the Universe (2008) (49)
The Sap Also Rises: A Critical Examination of the Anthropic Principle (1987) (47)
Chaos out of order: Quantum mechanics, the correspondence principle and chaos (1997) (47)
The cosmological constant, the fate of the universe, unimodular gravity, and all that (2003) (47)
Carnap, Kuhn, and the Philosophy of Scientific Methodology (1993) (46)
Inference, explanation, and other frustrations : essays in the philosophy of science (1992) (43)
Superselection Rules for Philosophers (2008) (42)
Philosophical Problems of the Internal and External Worlds: Essays on the Philosophy of Adolf Grunbaum (1994) (42)
Contact with the Nomic: A Challenge for Deniers of Humean Supervenience about Laws of Nature Part II: The Epistemological Argument for Humean Supervenience (2005) (41)
The Penrose-Hawking singularity theorems: history and implications (1999) (40)
Two Challenges to the Requirement of Substantive General Covariance (2004) (40)
Chapter 10 Pruning Some Branches from “Branching Spacetimes” (2008) (39)
WHY SPACE IS NOT A SUBSTANCE (AT LEAST NOT TO FIRST DEGREE) (1986) (39)
Covariance, invariance, and the equivalence of frames (1974) (38)
Weyling the time away: The non-unitary implementability of quantum field dynamics on curved spacetime (2002) (38)
Some Puzzles and Unresolved Issues About Quantum Entanglement (2015) (36)
The Universality of Laws (1978) (35)
The confirmation of scientific hypotheses (1992) (35)
The Unruh effect for philosophers (2011) (34)
Causation: a matter of life and death (1976) (34)
Chapter 1: The Implications of General Covariance for the Ontology and Ideology of Spacetime (2006) (33)
The Cosmos of Science (1997) (33)
What Is A Newtonian System? The Failure Of Energy Conservation And Determinism In Supertasks (2004) (32)
Recent work on time travel (1995) (32)
Comments on Laraudogoitia's ‘Classical Particle Dynamics, Indeterminism and a Supertask’ (1998) (31)
Symmetries in Physics: Rough guide to spontaneous symmetry breaking (2003) (31)
Fulling Non‐uniqueness and the Unruh Effect: A Primer on Some Aspects of Quantum Field Theory (2003) (31)
Richard Price, Four Dissertations (2D Ed. 1768), Dissertation IV, “On the Importance of Christianity and the Nature of Historical Evidence, and Miracles”. (2000) (28)
The role of idealizations in the Aharonov–Bohm effect (2019) (27)
Gauge Matters (2002) (26)
Foundations of Space-Time Theories: Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science (1977) (26)
Essential self-adjointness: implications for determinism and the classical–quantum correspondence (2009) (25)
Peter Annet, the Resurrection of Jesus Considered: In Answer to the Tryal of the Witnesses (1744) (2000) (23)
Irreversibility and temporal asymmetry (1967) (22)
Sharpening the Electromagnetic Arrow(s) of Time (2011) (22)
Space-Time, or How to Solve Philosophical Problems and Dissolve Philosophical Muddles without Really Trying (1970) (21)
Was Leibniz a Relationist (1979) (21)
Implications of causal propagation outside the null cone (1972) (21)
The anisotropy of time (1969) (20)
Relativistic Causality in Algebraic Quantum Field Theory (2014) (20)
Locality, Nonlocality and Action at a Distance: A Skeptical Review of Some Philosophical Dogmas (1987) (19)
The Problem of Irreversibility (1986) (19)
Foundations of Space Time Theories (1977) (18)
Relativistic Invariance and Modal Interpretations* (2005) (18)
How Determinism Can Fail in Classical Physics and How Quantum Physics Can (Sometimes) Provide a Cure (2008) (17)
Infinities, infinitesimals, and indivisibles: the leibnizian labyrinth (1975) (17)
No superluminal propagation for classical relativistic and relativistic quantum fields (2014) (15)
Tolerance for spacetime singularities (1996) (15)
Quantum Bayesianism Assessed (2019) (15)
Notes on the causal theory of time (1972) (15)
Laplacian Determinism, or Is This Any Way to Run a Universe? (1971) (15)
Leibnizian Space-times and Leibnizian Algebras (1977) (15)
Philosophy of Physics (Handbook of the Philosophy of Science) 2 volume set (2006) (14)
What Revisions Does Bootstrap Testing Need (1988) (14)
What Revisions Does Bootstrap Testing Need? A Reply (1988) (13)
Introduction to The Philosophy of Physics: Volume 2 of the North-Holland series, the Handbook of the Philosophy of Science (2007) (13)
Perceptions and Relations in the Monadology (1977) (13)
Ceteris Paribus Post (2002) (13)
Till the End of Time (1977) (12)
Some Aspects of General Relativity and Geometrodynamics (1972) (12)
In Defense of Laws: Reflections on Bas van Fraassen's Laws and Symmetry (1993) (12)
Take a Ride on a Time Machine (2003) (11)
Combining Statistical-Thermodynamics and Relativity Theory: Methodological and Foundations Problems (1978) (11)
Outlawing time machines: Chronology protection theorems (1995) (11)
Interpreting Probabilities in Quantum Field Theory and Quantum Statistical Mechanics (2011) (11)
On the Other Hand ...: A Reconsideration of Kant, Incongruent Counterparts, and Absolute Space (1991) (10)
On Writing the History of Special Relativity (1982) (10)
The Cosmic Censorship Hypothesis (1993) (10)
Philosophy of Physics (2007) (10)
Fairy tales vs an ongoing story: Ramsey's neglected argument for scientific realism (1978) (9)
Concepts of projectibility and the problems of induction (1985) (9)
On Going Backward in Time (1967) (8)
Determinism in the Physical Sciences (1992) (8)
The Relation between Credence and Chance: Lewis' "Principal Principle" Is a Theorem of Quantum Probability Theory (2018) (7)
Bayes, Hume, Price, and Miracles (2002) (6)
Bayes, Hume, and Miracles (1993) (6)
Quantum Physics in Non-Separable Hilbert Spaces (2020) (5)
What is physicalism (1975) (5)
Are spatial and temporal congruence conventional? (1970) (5)
Synopsis and Discussion: Philosophy of Gauge Theory (2009) (4)
Charles Babbage, Ninth Bridgewater Treatise (2D Ed. 1838), Chapter 10, “On Hume's Argument Against Miracles” (2000) (4)
OLD EVIDENCE, NEW THEORIES: TWO UNRESOLVED PROBLEMS IN BAYESIAN CONFIRMATION THEORY (1989) (4)
David Hume, Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1777), Section 10, “Of Miracles” (2000) (4)
Fulling non‐uniqueness and the Unruh effect (2003) (3)
Quantum sidelights on The Material Theory of Induction. (2020) (3)
Credence and Chance in Quantum Theory (2017) (3)
Quantum Mechanics As a Theory of Observables and States (And, Thereby, As a Theory of Probability) (2020) (3)
The Closed Universe (1970) (3)
Remarks on Relational Theories of Motion (1989) (3)
Lüders conditionalization: Conditional probability, transition probability, and updating in quantum probability theory (2019) (3)
How to Abuse Gauge Freedom to Generate Metaphysical Monstrosities (2002) (2)
On going backwards in time (1967) (2)
How to Talk About the Topology of Time (1977) (2)
Additivity Requirements in Classical and Quantum Probability (2017) (2)
Infinitely Challenging: Pitowsky’s Subjective Interpretation and the Physics of Infinite Systems (2012) (2)
Bohmian Mechanics: A Panacea for What Ails Quantum Mechanics, or a Different and Problematic Theory? (2017) (2)
Trace-Free Gravitational Theory (aka Unimodular Gravity) for Philosophers (2022) (2)
In the Beginning, At the End, and All in Between: Cosmological Aspects of Time (2006) (2)
Determinism, Randomness, and Chaos (1986) (1)
Classical Relativity Theory * Version 2.4 (2005) (1)
The Status of the Born Rule and the Role of Gleason(cid:146)s Theorem and Its Generalizations: How the Leopard Got Its Spots and Other Just-So Stories (2022) (1)
Pierre Simon Laplace, a Philosophical Essay on Probability (1814), Chapter 11 “Concerning the Probabilities of Testimonies” (2000) (1)
Cosmic Censorship (1992) (1)
Determinism, Mechanism, and Effective Computability (1986) (1)
Samuel Clarke, “A Discourse Concerning the Unalterable Obligations of Natural Religion, and the Truth and Certainty of the Christian Revelations” (1705) (2000) (1)
Implementing David Lewis’Principal Principle: A Program for Investigating the Relation between Credence and Chance (2021) (1)
Review of the cement of the universe (1976) (1)
Symmetries for Quantum Theory (2020) (1)
Determinism and Laws of Nature (1986) (1)
Cosmos of science : philosophical problems of the internal and external worlds (1998) (1)
12 The Bayes‐Price Rejection of Hume's Straight Rule (2000) (0)
4 The Puzzles of Hume's Definitions of “Miracles” (2000) (0)
Determinism and Free Will (1986) (0)
Review of "Conceptual Foundations of Contemporary Relativity Theory" by J. Graves (1972) (0)
“A Bayesian Analysis of the Cumulative Effects of Independent Eyewitness Testimony for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ” by John M. DePoe,Western Michigan University I (2007) (0)
The Nature and Recognition of Scientific Progress (1983) (0)
Determinism in Quantum Physics (1986) (0)
14 The Indian Prince (2000) (0)
Errata: Concepts of Projectibility and the Problems of Induction (1986) (0)
Determinism, Instability, and Apparent Randomness (1986) (0)
6 What a Miracle Is for Hume (2000) (0)
OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY-II 3 BAYES ' S THEOREM 5 Bayes , Hume , Price , and Miracles (0)
OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY-II 3 BAYES ' S THEOREM 5 Bayes , Hume , Price , and Miracles (0)
A Universe of Explanations (2014) (0)
Thomas Sherlock, the Tryal of the Witnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus (11th Ed., 1729) (2000) (0)
Determinism in General Relativistic Physics (1986) (0)
John Locke, “A Discourse of Miracles” (1706) (2000) (0)
18 Multiple Witnessing (2000) (0)
A Guide to the Bargmann Mass Superselection Rule: Why There Is(cid:151) and Isn(cid:146)t(cid:151) Mass Superselection in Non-Relativistic Quantum Mechanics (2022) (0)
Determinism in Special Relativistic Physics (1986) (0)
13 Hume's Stultification of Scientific Inquiry (2000) (0)
Not All Is Chaos (1998) (0)
9 Hume's Straight Rule of Induction and His “Proof” Against Miracles (2000) (0)
The Rise and Fall of Empiricist Criteria of Cognitive Significance (1983) (0)
8 The Structure of Hume's Essay (2000) (0)
The University of Laws (1978) (0)
Friday Round Table Panel (Conceptions of Empirical Success Conference) (2010) (0)
George Campbell, a Dissertation on Miracles (1762) (2000) (0)
15 Hume's Maxim (2000) (0)
The role of idealizations in the Aharonov–Bohm effect (2017) (0)
Jeremy Butterfield & John Earman, - PhilPapers (1977) (0)
Anonymous (George Hooper?), “A Calculation of the Credibility of Human Testimony” (1699) (2000) (0)
17 Hume's Diminution Principle (2000) (0)
Readings On Laws Of Nature (2004) (0)
Some Puzzles and Unresolved Issues About Quantum Entanglement (2014) (0)
10 Hume, Bayes, and Price (2000) (0)
Review of "An introduction to the philosophy of space and time" by Bas van Fraassen (1971) (0)
2 Hume's Religious Orientation (2000) (0)
5 Conceptions of Miracles (2000) (0)
Introduction (of the book "Philosophy of Physics") (2007) (0)
22 Probabilifying Religious Doctrines (2000) (0)
Book review (1991) (0)
On Writing the History of Relativity (1982) (0)
3 The Origins of Hume's Essay (2000) (0)
Benedict De Spinoza, a Theologico‐Political Treatise (1670), Chapter 6 (2000) (0)
Determinism and Time Symmetries (1986) (0)
20 What Is Right About Hume's Position (2000) (0)
Editor's Note: Relativistic Cosmology. I. (2000) (0)
Draft : Not for Citation . Superselection Rules for Philosophers (2008) (0)
19 More Multiple Witnessing (2000) (0)
Determinism in Classical Physics (1986) (0)
11 Bayes and Bayesianism (2000) (0)
John Earman & Christian Wüthrich, - PhilPapers (2010) (0)
John Locke, an Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690), Book IV, Chapters 15 and 16 (2000) (0)
16 What Is Hume's Thesis? (2000) (0)
7 The Eighteenth‐Century Debate on Miracles (2000) (0)
21 Fall Back Positions for Hume (2000) (0)
23 Hume's Contrary Miracles Argument (2000) (0)
Review of Experiment: Right or Wrong by A. Franklin (1991) (0)

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