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Richard
Healey
Richard Healey (Ph.D., Harvard), Professor
of Philosophy, works mainly in the philosophy of science and metaphysics.
One aim of his research in the philosophy of physics is to shed
light on metaphysical topics such as holism, realism and causation.
In The Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics, he develops an approach
toward the understanding of quantum theory, according to which the
theory portrays a nonseparable world. He is currently exploring
ways in which quantum field theories, including gauge theories,
involve a similar nonseparability.
- The Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics: An Interactive
Interpretation (Cambridge, 1989)
- "Change
Without Change, and How to Observe it in General Relativity",
by Richard Healey and Jenann Ismael
- Can Physics Coherently
Deny the Reality of Time? (draft of forthcoming paper)
- "On
the Reality of Gauge Potentials", entry in the Philosophy
of Science Archive
- "The Meaning of Quantum Theory"
in The Great Ideas Today, 1998 (Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc.)
- "Holism
and Nonseparability in Physics", entry in the Stanford
Electronic Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- "'Modal' Interpretations, Decoherence
and the Quantum Measurement Problem", in Quantum Measurement:
Beyond Paradox (Cambridge, 1998)
- "La Métaphysique de la Vacuité"
in Le Vide: Univers du Tout et du Rien, eds. E. Gunzig and S.
Diner (Revue de l'Université de Bruxelles: Éditions Complexes,1998)
(English language version entitled "The
Metaphysics of Emptiness")
- "Locality and Separability in the Aharonov-Bohm
Effect" (Philosophy of Science 67, 1997).
- "Substance, Modality and Spacetime"
(Erkenntnis, 1995)
- "Nonseparability and Causal Explanation"
(Studies in History and Philosophy of the Physical Sciences,
25.1, 1994)
- "Chasing Quantum Causes: How Wild is
the Goose?" (Philosophical Topics, Spring 1992)
- "Holism and Nonseparability" (Journal
of Philosophy, August 1991)
- Quantum Measurement: Beyond Paradox, edited
with Geoffrey Hellman (U. Minnesota Press, 1998).
- The Authority of Reason, by Jean Hampton (Cambridge,
1998).
- Reduction, Time, and Reality: Studies in the
Philosophy of the Natural Sciences (Cambridge, 1981).
Department of Philosophy
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona 85721-0027
rhealey AT u DOT arizona DOT edu
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