In The Structure of the World, Steven French articulates and defends the bold claim that
there are no objects. At the most fundamental level, modern physics presents us with a world …

Can quantum particles be regarded as individuals, just like books, tables and people?
According to the'received'view-articulated by several physicists in the immediate aftermath of …

Roughly speaking, classical statistical physics is the branch of theoretical physics that aims
to account for the thermal behaviour of macroscopic bodies in terms of a classical …

It is shown that the Hilbert-Bernays-Quine principle of identity of indiscernibles applies
uniformly to all the contentious cases of symmetries in physics, including permutation …

It is widely believed that particles in quantum mechanics are metaphysi cally strange; they
are not individuals (the view of Cassirer 1956), in some sense of the term, and perhaps they …

What are the metaphysical implications of quantum physics? One way of approaching this
question is to consider the impact of the theory on our understanding of objects as …

Statistical mechanics (SM) is the study of the connection between micro-physics and macro-
physics. 1 Thermodynamics (TD) correctly describes a large class of phenomena we …

Even if we are able to decide on a canonical formulation of our theory, there is the further
problem of metaphysical underdetermination with respect to, for example, whether the …

Most philosophical discussion of the particle concept that is afforded by quantum field theory
has focused on free systems. This paper is devoted to a systematic investigation of whether …

In recent years a doctrine known as ontic structural realism (OSR) has achieved a degree of
notoriety, but many people remain confused as to what exactly the doctrine amounts. In this …