Metaphysics in Contemporary Physics

Tomasz Bigaj, Ph.D. (1996), University of Warsaw, is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warsaw. He has published articles and books on philosophy of physics and analytic metaphysics, including Non-locality and Possible Worlds. A Counterfactual Perspective on Quantum Entanglement (Ontos Verlag, 2006).Christian Wüthrich, Ph.D. (2006), University of Pittsburgh, is Associate Professor at the University of Geneva. He had published articles on physics, philosophy of physics, and metaphysics in numerous venues.

• Tomasz Bigaj and Christian Wüthrich: Introduction.Steven French and Kerry McKenzie: Rethinking Outside the Toolbox: Reflecting Again on the Relationship between Philosophy of Science and Metaphysics.Douglas Kutach: Ontology: An Empirical Fundamentalist Approach.Vincent Lam: Quantum Structure and Spacetime.Dean Rickles and Jessica Bloom: Things Ain’t What They Used to Be. Physics Without Objects . Olimpia Lombardi and Dennis Dieks: Particles in a Quantum Ontology of Properties. Tomasz Bigaj: Essentialism and Modern Physics .Thomas Møller-Nielsen: Symmetry and Qualitativity.Matteo Morganti: Relational Time. Antonio Vassallo: General Covariance, Diffeomorphism Invariance, and Background Independence in 5 Dimensions. Ioan Muntean: A Metaphysics from String Dualities: Pluralism, Fundamentalism, Modality. Adam Caulton: Is Mereology Empirical? Composition for Fermions.Andreas Hüttemann: Physicalism and the Part-Whole Relation. Jessica Wilson: Metaphysical Emergence: Weak and Strong. Mauro Dorato and Michael Esfeld: The Metaphysics of Laws: Dispositionalism vs. Primitivism.Marek Kuś: Classical and Quantum Sources of Randomness.Jeremy Butterfield and Nazim Bouatta: Renormalization for Philosophers.