Richard Healey Bibliography

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE

DEPARTMENT OF LOGIC AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

COLLOQUIUM

Richard Healey

Department of Philosophy

University of Arizona

“Gauge Potentials: Physical Reality or Mathematical Fiction?”

Friday, October 20, 2000

3:00 p.m.

SST 777

Classically, a gauge potential was merely a convenient device for generating a corresponding gauge field. Quantum-mechanically, a gauge potential lays claim to represent an independent aspect of its associated interaction. But it is not clear what this is like or how it is most faithfully represented mathematically. I shall argue that in the theory of electromagnetism (or a non-Abelian generalization) that describes quantum particles subject to a classical interaction, the gauge potential is best understood as a global feature of the physical situation, represented by the holonomies of closed curves in space-time.

Richard A. Healey

A Bibliography

Compiled by

Eddie Yeghiayan

1978

“A Realistic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.” PhD Dissertation, Harvard University, 1978.

1979

"Physicalist Imperialism." Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (1979), 79:191-211.
"Quantum Realism: Naïveté is No Excuse." Synthese (September 1979), 42(1):121-144.

1981

“Comments on Kochen’s Specification of Measurement Interactions.” In Peter D. Asquith and Ian Hacking, eds., PSA 1978: Proceedings of the 1978 Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Volume Two: Symposia, pp. 277-294. East Lansing, MI: Philosophy of Science Association, 1981.
Edited. Reduction, Time, and Reality: Studies in the Philosophy of the Natural Sciences. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
Contents:
“Theoretical Explanation” / Michael Friedman
“The Case of the Lonely Corpuscle: Reductive Explanation and Primitive Expressions” / Peter Alexander
“Three Kinds of Intentional Psychology” / D. C. Dennett
“Time and Reality” / P. C. W. Davies
“McTaggart, Fixity, and Coming True” / D. H. Mellor
“Statistical Theories, Quantum Mechanics, and the Directedness of Time” / Richard Healey
“Time, Reality, and Relativity” / Lawrence Sklar
“Modal Reality” / Colin McGinn
“Essences and Laws of Nature” / Bas C. van Fraassen
"Statistical Theories, Quantum Mechanics and the Directedness of Time." In Richard Healey, ed., Reduction, Time, and Reality: Studies in the Philosophy of the Natural Sciences, pp. 99-128. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981.

1982

Review of Bas C. van Fraassen’s The Scientific Image. Philosophical Books (April 1982), 23(2):100-102.
Review of David Park’s The Image of Etemity: Roots of Time in the Physical World. Philosophical Review (October 1982), 91(4) [479]:607-609.
Review of Patrick Suppes, ed., Studies in the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics. Isis (March 1982), 73(1) [266]:114-115..

1983

Review of Karl R. Popper’s Realism and the Aim of Science. Philosophy of Science (December 1983), 50(4):669-671.

1984

"How Many Worlds?" Nous (November 1984), 18(4):591-616.
Special Issue on the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, edited by Geoffrey Hellman.
“On Explaining Experiences of a Quantum World.” In Peter D. Asquith and Philip Kitcher, eds., PSA 1984: Proceedings of the 1984 Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Volume One: Contributed Papers, pp. 56-69. East Lansing, MI: Philosophy of Science Association, 1984.

1985

Review of Rachel Wallace Garden’s Modern Logic and Quantum Mechanics. Philosophy of Science (December 1985), 52(4):642-644.

1987

Review of Gino Tarozzi and Alwyn van der Merwe, eds., Open Questions in Quantum Physics: Invited Papers on the Foundations of Microphysics. Philosophy of Science (March 1987), 54(1):132-134.
Review of Michael Friedman’s Foundations of Space-Time Theories: Relativistic Physics and Philosophy of Science. Nous (December 1987), 21(4):595-601.

1989

The Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics: An Interactive Interpretation. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

1990

Review of Arthur Fine’s The Shaky Game: Einstein, Realism and the Quantum Theory. Nous (March 1990), 24(1):177-180.

1991

“Holism and Nonseparability. “ Journal of Philosophy (August 1991), 88(8):393-421.
Review of Michael Redhead’s Incompleteness, Nonlocality and Realism: A Prolegomenon to the Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics. Philosophy of Science (September 1991), 58(3):503-505.
Review of Paul Horwich’s Asymmetries in Time: Problems in the Philosophy of Science. Philosophical Review (January 1991), 100(1):125-130.

1992

“Causation, Robustness, and EPR.” Philosophy of Science (June 1992), 59(2):282-292.
"Chasing Quantum Causes: How Wild is the Goose?" Philosophical Topics (Spring 1992), 20(1):181-204.
Issue is on “The Philosophy of Hilary Putnam,” edited by Christopher S. Hill.
Review of R. I. G. Hughes’ The Structure and Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. Philosophical Review (July 1992), 101(3) [519]:720-723.

1993

“Measurement and Quantum Indeterminateness.” Foundations of Physics Letters (August 1993), 6(4):307-316.
“Why Error-Prone Quantum Measurements Have Outcomes.” Foundations of Physics Letters (February 1993), 6(1):37-54.

1994

“Nonseparable Processes and Causal Explanation.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (June 1994), 25(3):337-374.

1995

“Dissipating the Quantum Measurement Problem.” Topoi (March 1995), 14(1):55-65.
The Topos of this issue is “Quantum Mechanics and the Measurement Problem,” edited by Jeffrey A. Barrett.
"Substance, Modality, and Spacetime." Erkenntnis (1995), 42(3):287-316.

1996

(with Stephen Leeds.) “A Note on van Fraassen’s Modal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.” Philosophy of Science (March 1996), 63(1):91-104.
Review of Abner Shimony’s Search for a Naturalistic World View, Vols 1-2 . Journal of Philosophy (February 1996), 93(2):92-100.

1997

“Nonlocality and the Aharonov-Bohm Effect.” Philosophy of Science (March 1997), 64 (1):18-41.

1998

Edited Jean E. Hampton’s The Authority of Reason. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
“The Meaning of Quantum Theory.” In John Van Doren, ed., The Great Ideas Today, 1998, pp. 74-105. Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1998.
“La Métaphysique de la vacuité.” In Edgard Gunzig and Simon Diner, eds., Le Vide: Univers du tout et du rien. Revue de l'Université de Bruxelles (1997), 1-2. Bruxelles: Editions Complexe, 1998.
“’Modal’ Interpretations, Decoherence, and the Quantum Measurement Problem.” In Richard A. Healey and Geoffrey Hellman, eds, Quantum Measurement: Beyond Paradox, pp. 52-85. Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 17. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998.
Based on a workshop held by the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Minnesota in May 1995.
Edited (with Geoffrey Hellman.) Quantum Measurement: Beyond Paradox. Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 17. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998.

1999

“Is the Aharonov-Bohm Effect Local?” In Tian Yu Cao, ed., Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Field Theory, pp. 298-313. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
“Quantum Analogies: A Reply to Maudlin.” Philosophy of Science (September 1999), 66(3):440-447.
Reply to Tim Maudlin’s “Healey on the Aharonov-Bohm Effect.” Philosophy of Science (June 1998), 65(2):361-368.