This is the third in a series of essays about abstractions in philosophy. Here, I continue the critique and extend it to another abstract co...

In the previous essay in this series, I made some fairly banal comments about abstractions from something like a nominalist point of view...

A farmer wants to increase milk production. They ask a physicist for advice. The physicist visits the farm, takes a lot of notes, draws ...

The role of observation in events has been a staple of quantum physics for decades and is closely associated with "the Copenhagen in...

“The wave function is real—not just a theoretical thing in abstract mathematical space.” —Sean Carroll. Something Deeply Hidden . Harriga...