My view is that knowing how the Nobel committee does science awards that Wheeler, or how the committee knifed Fred Hoyle's work on CNO physics is another reason for outsiders to de-rate the Nobel's celebrity. Harumph, as we chide in the hinterlands.
-----Original Message----- From: Brent Meeker <meekerbr...@gmail.com> To: spudboy...@aol.com; everything-list@googlegroups.com <everything-list@googlegroups.com> Cc: marc...@ulb.ac.be <marc...@ulb.ac.be> Sent: Thu, Feb 24, 2022 9:22 pm Subject: Re: The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism Wheeler never got a Nobel. I got a reply from Wilson essentially saying he's not interested the deriving QM from anything, he regards it as fundamental and is seeking to "rebuild the world as we know it from there". Brent On 2/24/2022 6:16 PM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Lewis's Modal realism is just different verbiage for (as the bibliography on the article) a more rigorous analysis started by High Everett, and its further work by Bryce DeWitt & and nobelist, John Archibald Wheeler. Until someone figures out how to view our world splitting off, or see's some cosmological evidence its' just one very big place out there. -----Original Message----- From: Brent Meeker <meekerbr...@gmail.com> To: Everything List <everything-list@googlegroups.com> Cc: Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> Sent: Wed, Feb 23, 2022 10:45 pm Subject: The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism This should be of interest to all the everythingists on this list. I'd especially like to hear what Bruno thinks of it. It's a bit expensive, so I may wait for more reviews before I take it up. Birmingham-based philosopher Alastair Wilson has taken up the Herculean task of putting modal realism and many-worlds quantum theory together into a coherent, unitary view of reality. The results of this effort have been presented in several papers in recent years, and are now assembled in this thought-provoking book. While, as we will see, questions remain, Wilson has no doubt managed to come up with ingenious new hypotheses and has proposed solutions to existing problems and, more generally, with a powerful new modal realist view. The resulting perspective will certainly be of interest in the coming years, especially for naturalistically inclined philosophers, demanding that metaphysical hypotheses be made as continuous with our best science as possible. https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/the-nature-of-contingency-quantum-physics-as-modal-realism/ From the review I take it that Wilson has missed the intermediate kind of possibility, namely computability which is between logical possibility and nomological possibility. Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/fd83dddb-0342-212c-2dde-c8705bfae517%40gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/646671223.1399750.1645840746146%40mail.yahoo.com.
