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A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram - http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/
Science from the point of view of complex systems: from the origins of apparent randomness in physical systems, to the development of complexity in biology. |
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MathPages: Physics - http://www.mathpages.com/home/iphysics.htm
Collection of essays, not always orthodox, but always lucid, on historical and important current issues in mathematics and physics. |
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Wikipedia - EPR Paradox - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_paradox
Measurement performed on one part of a quantum system can have an instantaneous effect on the result of a measurement performed on another part. Entaglment. |
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Experiment in Physics - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/physics-experiment/
On the uses, value, and epistomelogy of experiment. By Allan Franklin, University of Colorado. |
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A New Kind of Science - critical review - http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0464.html?printable=1
Detailed and critical review by Ray Kurzweil of the book by Stephen Wolfram. |
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Review of "The Emperor's New Mind", by Roger Penrose - http://www.friesian.com/penrose.htm
His exploration is so much more serious philosophically than almost anything that has been done since Einstein and Schrodinger |
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Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions - http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/kuhn.htm
Crucial chapter from Kuhn's famous book outlining how sciences is forced to go through a paradigm-shift, and see the world in terms of a new theory and new concepts. |
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The Bactra Reviews - http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/reviews/
A set of book and article reviews, not limited to physics. |
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PhilSci Archive - Subject: Physics - http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/view/subjects/physics.html
Collection of papers on causality, free will etc |
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Events in History of Physics - http://history.hyperjeff.net/
Time-lines of thermodynamics, electromagnetism, and symmetry. With links to other time-lines and resources. |
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Philosophical Foundations of Physics by R. Carnap - http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/carnap.htm
Positivist view of Physics, which had influenced the Copenhagen Interpretation of the Quantum mechanics (CI). |
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Science, Pseudoscience and Society - http://www.softpanorama.org/Skeptics/index.shtml
Papers by Feynman on paranormal 'sciences', Sokal Affair (use of pseudo-physics in social sciences), critique of Kuhn. Also a collection of links. |
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Science and Philosophy - http://sciphilos.info
Comprises a high school course that offers source writings for study of the relationship between philosophical and scientific discoveries and personal world-views. |
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INTER-5-CIRCLE: Interdisciplinary Discussion : Biology, QM, .. - http://www.interdisciplinary-discussion.com
Questions at the interface between physics, biology and philosophy |
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Varieties of Explanatory Autonomy - http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00002823/01/Varieties_of_Explanatory_Autonomy.pdf
Transcript of a talk by Lawrence Sklar discussing areas of physics not directly explicable by fundamental dynamic principles alone. [PDF] |