Harvey Brown (philosopher)

Harvey Brown (philosopher)

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era = Contemporary philosophy
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name = Harvey Brown
birth = 4 April 1950
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school_tradition = Analytic philosophy
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Harvey R. Brown, (born April 4, 1950 in the United Kingdom) is a philosopher of physics. He is a Reader in Philosophy at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford.

elected Works

*1984. "Albert Einstein. A simple man of vision", in Portuguese, Brasiliense, São Paulo.

*1988. H.R. Brown and H.R. Harré (eds.). "Philosophical Foundations of Quantum Field Theory", Oxford: Clarendon Press. Reprinted in paperback, 1990.

*1991. S. Saunders and H.R. Brown (eds.). "The Philosophy of Vacuum". Oxford: Clarendon Press.

*1996. 'Mindful of quantum possibilities'. "British Journal for the Philosophy of Science", 47: 189-200.

*1997. 'On the role of special relativity in general relativity'. "International Studies in the Philosophy of Science", 11: 67-81.

*1999. 'Aspects of objectivity in quantum mechanics'. In , J. Butterfield and C. Pagonis (eds.), "From Physics to Philosophy". Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 45-70.

*2001. 'The origins of length contraction: I the FitzGerald-Lorentz deformation hypothesis'. "American Journal of Physics", 69: 1044-1054.

*2003. With P Holland. 'The non-relativistic limit of the Maxwell and Dirac equations: The role of Galilean and gauge invariance', "Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics" 34: 161-187.

*2005. "Physical Relativity. Space-time structure from a dynamical perspective". Oxford: Oxford University Press.

External links

* [http://users.ox.ac.uk/~brownhr/ Harvey Brown, Oxford Philosophy]


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