Lawrence Sklar | Academic Influence

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Lawrence Sklar

Philosophy

#1096

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#2062

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#459

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Metaphysics

#79

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#116

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#40

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Epistemology

#111

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#140

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#57

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Logic

#2093

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#3004

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#533

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According to Wikipedia, Lawrence Sklar is an American philosopher. He is the Carl G. Hempel and William K. Frankena Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan. Education and career Sklar was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1938 and educated at Oberlin College and Princeton University where he worked with Hilary Putnam.

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Lawrence Sklar's Published Works

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Physics and Chance: Philosophical Issues in the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics (1993) (272)
Physics and Chance (1993) (250)
Space, Time, and Spacetime (1975) (224)
Types of Inter-Theoretic Reduction* (1967) (198)
Assumption and myth in physical theory (1969) (89)
Philosophical problems of statistical inference (1981) (69)
Philosophy and Spacetime Physics (1985) (58)
DO UNBORN HYPOTHESES HAVE RIGHTS (1981) (58)
Statistical Explanation and Ergodic Theory (1973) (50)
Philosophy Of Physics (1992) (47)
Philosophical Problems of Space and Time (1977) (42)
Saving the Noumena (1982) (40)
Is Probability a Dispositional Property (1970) (35)
Dappled Theories in a Uniform World* (2003) (32)
Interpreting theories: the case of statistical mechanics (2000) (28)
The Reduction(?) of Thermodynamics to Statistical Mechanics (1999) (28)
Philosophy and the Foundations of Dynamics (2012) (27)
Up and Down, Left and Right, Past and Future (1981) (23)
Theory and Truth (2000) (21)
Reviews-Theory and Truth: Philosophical Critique within Foundational Science (2002) (17)
I'd Love to Be a Naturalist—if Only I Knew What Naturalism Was (2010) (16)
Facts, Conventions, and Assumptions in the Theory of Space Time (1977) (14)
Incongruous Counterparts, Intrinsic Features and the Substantiviality of Space (1974) (14)
Order and Disorder in the World of Atoms (1967) (14)
How Free Are Initial Conditions? (1990) (13)
Gerard Emch and Chuang Liu, The Logic of Thermo-Statistical Physics. (2003) (13)
Foundations of Space-time Theories: Relativistic Physics and Philosophy of Science by Michael Friedman (1988) (12)
Naturalism and the Interpretation of Theories (2001) (12)
Time in experience and in theoretical description of the world (1995) (12)
The astronomical revolution (2012) (12)
The Elusive Object of Desire: In Pursuit of the Kinetic Equations and the Second Law (1986) (12)
Prospects for a Causal Theory of Space-Time (1983) (11)
Unfair to Frequencies (1973) (10)
Thermodynamics, Statistical Mechanics and the Complexity of Reductions (1974) (8)
Book Review: The Discovery of Dynamics. By Julian B. Barbour. Oxford University Press, New York, New York, xxiv + 746 pp., $45.00 (softcover). ISBN 0-19-513202-5 (2002) (8)
Idealization and Explanation: A Case Study from Statistical Mechanics (1993) (7)
Inertia, Gravitation and Metaphysics (1976) (7)
Varieties of Explanatory Autonomy (2006) (6)
Absolute Space and the Metaphysics of Theories (1972) (5)
Probability as a theoretical concept (1979) (5)
Ultimate Explanations: Comments on Tipler (1988) (5)
The Content of Science, The Methodology of Science and Hempel's Models of Explanation and Confirmation (1999) (4)
Spacetime and Conventionalism (2004) (4)
The Falsifiability of Geometric Theories (1967) (4)
Comments on Malament's " 'Time Travel' in the Gödel Universe" (1984) (4)
Semantic analogy (1980) (4)
Physical Theory: Method and Interpretation (2014) (4)
Why Does the Standard Measure Work in Statistical Mechanics (2006) (3)
Protophysics of Time (1989) (3)
Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity: Aristotelian Society Series (1994) (3)
Rationality and truth (1976) (3)
What might be right about the causal theory of time (1977) (3)
Foundational physics and empiricist critique (1990) (3)
Probability and confirmation (2000) (2)
Topology Versus Measure in Statistical Mechanics (2000) (2)
Physics, Metaphysics, and Method in Newton's Dynamics (2007) (2)
Explanation, law and cause (2000) (2)
The Concept of Physical Law by Norman Swartz (1990) (2)
Book Review:In the Wake of Chaos: Unpredictable Order in Dynamic Systems Stephen H. Kellert (1997) (2)
Bayesian and non-inductive methods (2000) (2)
Foundations of Space-Time Theories: Relativistic and Philosophy of Science. (1988) (2)
Between Experience and Metaphysics, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. (1981) (1)
Factitious ventricular tachyarrhythmia outbreak. (2011) (1)
Comments [on Papers by Earman and Malament] (1978) (1)
Space, Time, and Motion (2018) (1)
Perceived Worlds, Inferred Worlds, The World (1984) (1)
The Introduction of Probability into Physics (2018) (1)
Efficiency factors in data communications (1984) (1)
Theory reduction and theory change (2000) (1)
Philosophy and the Foundations of Dynamics: Formalization: mass and force (2012) (1)
The nature of scientific theory (2000) (1)
The Evolution of the Problem of the Unity of Science (1974) (1)
Philosophy and the Foundations of Dynamics: The pre-history of classical dynamics (2012) (0)
The Quantum Picture of the World (2018) (0)
Time's Arrows Today: The elusive object of desire: in pursuit of the kinetic equations and the Second Law (1995) (0)
Philosophy and the Foundations of Dynamics: The “Newtonian” approach after Newton (2012) (0)
Some philosophical reflections on explanation and theory (2012) (0)
The Structure of Time (1982) (0)
Philosophy and the Foundations of Dynamics: From virtual work to Lagrange's equation (2012) (0)
DO UNBORN HYPOTHESES HAVE RIGHTS<link href="#papq00039-note-0001"/> (2017) (0)
MECHANICS AND THE COMPLEXITY OF (2016) (0)
Physics and chance: The current state of major questions (1993) (0)
Introduction: Philosophy and the Physical Sciences (2018) (0)
Philosophy and the Foundations of Dynamics: Introduction (2012) (0)
Physics and chance: Probability (1993) (0)
Philosophy and the Foundations of Dynamics: The Newtonian synthesis (2012) (0)
Space, Time, and Relativity (2017) (0)
Physics and chance: The direction of time (1993) (0)
How theories work: Open questions for methodological philosophy of science (2015) (0)
Book Review:The Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics: The Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics in Historical Perspective Max Jammer (1977) (0)
Philosophy and the Foundations of Dynamics: Spacetime formulations of Newtonian dynamics (2012) (0)
S: Space and Time (2009) (0)
Book review (1996) (0)
Creating Modem Probability: Its Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy in Historical Perspective by Jan von Plato (1994) (0)
Causation in Statistical Mechanics (2009) (0)
The Genesis and Evolution of Time: A Critique of Interpretation in Physics (1986) (0)
The Existence of Space and Time. (1978) (0)
Comments on H. Field's "Can We Dispense with Space-Time?" (1984) (0)
Rationalizing non-equilibrium theory (1993) (0)
The search for new foundations (2012) (0)
Canonical transformations, optical analogies and algebraic structures (2012) (0)
Philosophy and the Foundations of Dynamics: The history of statics (2012) (0)
A Realist Philosophy of Science. (1986) (0)
Philosophy and the Foundations of Dynamics: Relationist dynamics (2012) (0)
Book Review: The Philosophy of Physics. By Roberto Torretti. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 1999, xvi + 512 pp., $23.95 (softcover) (2001) (0)
Unity of Science. Robert L. Causey (1980) (0)
Pearce David. Roads to commensurability . Synthese library, vol. 187. D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht etc. 1987, xi + 253 pp. (1991) (0)
Language and Time (1997) (0)
Philosophy and the Foundations of Dynamics: Modes of explanation (2012) (0)
What Is an Isolated System (2001) (0)
Statistical Mechanics in Physical Theory (2014) (0)
Philosophy and the Foundations of Dynamics: Philosophical aspects of the Newtonian synthesis (2012) (0)
The Disorder of Things: (1994) (0)
XII—The Language of Nature is Mathematics—But Which Mathematics? And What Nature? (1998) (0)
Cosmology and irreversibility (1993) (0)
Peter Kroes., Time: Its Structure and Role in Physical Theories (1989) (0)
Describing non-equilibrium (1993) (0)
The Matter of Chance (1975) (0)
Hamilton's equations (2012) (0)
Time in Classical Dynamics (2011) (0)
Convention, Role of (2017) (0)
The Reality of Time (1990) (0)
Philosophy and the Foundations of Dynamics: New directions in the applications of dynamics (2012) (0)
Philosophy and the Foundations of Dynamics: Precursors to Newtonian dynamics (2012) (0)
The development of dynamics after Newton (2012) (0)
Tim Maudlin,Philosophy of Physics: Space and Time. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press (2012), xiv+183 pp., $29.95 (cloth). (2014) (0)
Reflections on the Interdependence of Philosophy and Science (2018) (0)
K.G. Denbigh and J.S. Denbigh , Entropy in Relation to Incomplete Knowledge . Reviewed by (1987) (0)
Retrospective and conclusions (2012) (0)

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