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Bibliography of Abner Shimony Bibliography of Abner Shimony 1947 1. “An Ontological Examination of Causation”. Review of Metaphysics 1, 52–68. 1948 2. “The Nature and Status of Essences”. Review of Metaphysics 2, 38–79. 1954 3. “Braithwaite on Scientific Method”. Review of Metaphysics 7, 444–460. An Italian transla- tion appeared in 1978 in A. Meotti (ed.), L’Induzione e l’Ordine dell’Universo, pp. 125–131. Milano: Edizioni di Communita.` 1955 4. “Coherence and the Axioms of Confirmation”. Journal of Symbolic Logic 20, 1–28. Reprinted in [110]. 5. Theory of Information in the Discrete Communication System. Technical Memorandum 1690. Fort Monmouth, NJ: Signal Corps Engineering Laboratory. 1956 6. “Comments on David Harrah’s ‘Theses on Presupposition’ ”. Review of Metaphysics 9, 121–122. 493 494 Bibliography of Abner Shimony 1962 7. (With Joel L. Lebowitz.) “Statistical Mechanics of Open Systems”. Physical Review 128, 1945–1959. 1963 8. “Role of the Observer in Quantum Theory”. American Journal of Physics 31, 755–773. Reprinted in [110]. 9. “Stochastic Process of Keilson and Storer”. Physics of Fluids 6, 390–391. 1965 10. “Comments on the Papers of Prof. S. Schiller and Prof. A. Siegel”. Synthese 14, 189–195. 11. “Quantum Physics and the Philosophy of Whitehead”. In M. Black (ed.), Philosophy in America, pp. 240–261. London: Allen and Unwin. Reprinted in 1965 in R.S. Cohen and M. Wartofsky (eds.), Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science vol. 2 pp. 307–330. New York: Humanities Press. Reprinted in [110]. 1966 12. Review of Alfred Lande,´ New Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Physics Today 19, (September), 85–90. 1967 13. “Amplifying Personal Probability Theory”. Philosophy of Science 34, 3–8. 1968 14. Review of Patrick Heelan, Quantum Mechanics and Objectivity, Philosophical Review 77, 524–526. 15. Review of Max Jammer, The Conceptual Development of Quantum Mechanics, Synthese 18, 118–120. 16. (With John Earman.) “A Note on Measurement”. Il Nuovo Cimento X, 54B, 332–334. 1969 17. (With John F. Clauser, Michael A. Horne, and Richard A. Holt.) “Proposed Experiment to Test Local Hidden-Variable Theories”. Physical Review Letters 23, 880–884. Reprinted in J.A. Wheeler and W.H. Zurek (eds.), Quantum Theory and Measurement, pp. 409–413. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Bibliography of Abner Shimony 495 1970 18. “Resolution of the Paradox: a Philosophical Puppet Play”. In W. Salmon (ed.), Zeno’s Para- doxes, pp. 1–3. Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill. 1971 19. “Homage to Rudolf Carnap”. In R.C. Buck and R.S. Cohen (eds.), PSA 1970, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science VIII, pp. xxv–xxvii. Dordrecht: Reidel. 20. “Scientific Inference”. In R. Colodny (ed.), The Nature and Function of Scientific Theories, pp. 79–172. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press. Reprinted in [110]. 21. “Filters with Infinitely Many Components”. Foundations of Physics 1, 325–328. Reprinted in [110]. 22. (With Kenneth Friedman.) “Jaynes’s Maximum Entropy Principle and Probability Theory”. Journal of Statistical Physics 3, 381–384. 23. (With Howard Stein.) “Limitations on Measurement”. In B. d’Espagnat (ed.), Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (Proceedings of the International School of Physics “Enrico Fermi”), pp. 56–76. New York: Academic. 24. “Babar et les Variables Cachees”´ (a poem), ibid., p. 170. 25. “Experimental Test of Local Hidden-Variable Theories”. Ibid., pp. 182–194. Reprinted in [110]. 26. “Philosophical Comments on Quantum Mechanics”. Ibid., pp. 470–478. 27. “Perception from an Evolutionary Point of View”. Journal of Philosophy 7, 571–583. Reprinted in [110]. 1973 28. “Status of Hidden-Variable Theories”. In P. Suppes, L. Henkin, A. Joja, and C.R. Moisil (eds.), Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, vol. 4, pp. 593–601. Amsterdam: North-Holland. 29. “Comment on the Interpretation of Inductive Probabilities”. Journal of Statistical Physics 9, 187–191. 30. (With Michael A. Horne.) “Hidden Variables and Quantum Uncertainty”. Epistemological Letters of the Institut de la Methode´ (Association Ferdinand Gonseth, Vienne, Switzerland), 1, 1–24. 1974 31. (With Mary H. Fehrs.) “Approximate Measurement in Quantum Mechanics — I”. Physical Review D 9, 2317–2320. Reprinted in [110]. 32. “Approximate Measurement in Quantum Mechanics — II”. Physical Review D 9, 2321– 2323. Reprinted in [110]. 1975 33. “Carnap on Entropy”. In J. Hintikka (ed.), Rudolf Carnap; Logical Empiricist, pp. 381–395. Dordrecht: Reidel. Reprinted in [48], pp. viii–xxii. 496 Bibliography of Abner Shimony 34. “Vindication: A Reply to Paul Teller”. in G. Maxwell and R. Anderson (eds.), In- duction, Probability, and Confirmation, pp. 204–211. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. 1976 35. “Reply to Dr. Lochak”. Epistemological Letters of the Institut de la Methode´ 8, 1–5. 36. (With John F. Clauser and Michael A. Horne.) “Comment on Bell’s Theory of Local Be- ables”. Ibid., 13, 1–8. Reprinted in [77,110]. 37. (With Bror Hultgren.) “The Lattice of Verifiable Propositions of the Spin-1 System”. Journal of Mathematical Physics 18, 381–394. 38. “Comments on Two Epistemological Theses of Thomas Kuhn”. In R.S. Cohen, P. Feyerabend, and M. Wartofsky (eds.), Essays in Memory of Imre Lakatos (Boston Stud- ies in Philosophy of Science, vol. 39), pp. 569–588. Dordrecht: Reidel. Reprinted in [110]. 1977 39. “Is Observation Theory-Laden? A Problem in Naturalistic Epistemology”. In R. Colodny (ed.), Logic, Laws, and Life, pp. 185–208. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press. Reprinted in 1979 in D. Boyer, P. Grim, and J. Sanders, The Philosopher’s Annual, 1978, pp. 116–145. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield. Reprinted in [110]. 40. “Some Comments on Philosophical Method”. In Paul Weiss, First Philosophy, pp. 187–189. Carbondale, IL: Illinois University Press. 41. “Comments on Papers by Tisza and Brush”. In F. Suppe and P. Asquith (eds.), PSA 1976, vol. 1, pp. 609–616. East Lansing, MI: Philosophy of Science Association. 42. (With Joseph Hall, Christopher Kim, and Brien McElroy.) “Wave-Packet Reduction as a Medium of Communication”. Foundations of Physics 7, 759–767. Reprinted in [110]. 43. (With Michael A. Horne.) “Comment on Zeilinger’s Talk”. Progress in Scientific Culture 1/4, 459–460. 44. “Reply to Bell”. Epistemological Letters of the Institut de la Methode´ , 18, 1–4. Reprinted in [77,110]. 1978 45. “Some Theses and Questions concerning the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics”. Episte- mological Letters of the Institut de la Methode´ 19, 23–24. 46. “Reply to Costa de Beauregard”. Epistemological Letters of the Institut de la Methode´ 20, 33–36. 47. “Metaphysical Problems in the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics”. International Philo- sophical Quarterly 18, 8–17. Reprinted in R. Boyd, P. Gasper, and J.D. Trout (eds.), The Philosophy of Science, pp. 517–528. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 48. Edited Rudolf Carnap, Two Essays on Entropy, with an Introduction. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 49. (With John F. Clauser) “Bell’s Theorem: Experiments and Implications”. Reports on Progress in Physics 41, 1881–1927. Reprinted with additional notes in S. Stenholm (ed.), Lasers in Applied and Fundamental Research, Bristol, UK: Adam Hilger. 50. Review of S.S. Chissick and W.C. Price (eds.), Uncertainty Principle and Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Science 99, 168–169. 51. Review of B. d’Espagnat, Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, American Journal of Physics 46, 590–591. Bibliography of Abner Shimony 497 1979 52. Review of Thomas Kuhn, Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894–1912, Isis 70, 434–437. 53. “Quantum Mechanics”. In McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology, pp. 341–348. New York: McGraw-Hill. 54. “Proposed Neutron Interferometer Test of Some Nonlinear Variants of Wave Mechanics”. Physical Review A 20, 394–396. Reprinted in [110]. 55. (With Howard Stein.) “A Problem in Hilbert Space Theory Arising from the Quantum Theory of Measurement”, American Mathematical Monthly 86, 292–293. 1980 56. “An Analysis of the Proposal of Garuccio and Selleri for Superluminal Signalling”. Episte- mological Letters of the Institut de la Methode´ 25, 55–57. 57. “The Point We Have Reached”. Epistemological Letters of the Institut de la Methode´ 26, 1–7. 58. “Comments on Fine and Suppes”. In A. Asquith and R. Giere (eds.), PSA 1980,vol.2, pp. 572–582. East Lansing, MI: Philosophy of Science Association. 1981 59. “Integral Epistemology”. In M.B. Brewer and B.E. Collins (eds.), Scientific Inquiry and the Social Sciences, pp. 98–123. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. Reprinted in [83] and [110]. 60. (With Penha Dias.) “A Critique of Jaynes’ Maximum Entropy Principle”. Advances in Ap- plied Mathematics 2, 172–211. 61. (With T.K. Lo.) “Proposed Molecular Test of Local Hidden-Variables Theories”. Physical Review A 23, 3003–3012. 62. “Reflexions´ sur la Philosophie de Bohr, Heisenberg, et Schroedinger”. Journal de Physique 42 C2, 81–93. Reprinted in English translation in [67,110]. 63. “Meeting of Physics and Metaphysics” (a review of D. Bohm, Wholeness and the Implicate Order), Nature 291, 435–446. 64. Review of Hans Primas, Chemistry, Quantum Mechanics and Reductionism, American Journal of Physics 51, 1159–1160. 1982 65. “Laszlo Tisza’s Contributions to Philosophy of Science”. In A. Shimony and H. Feshbach (eds.), Physics as Natural Philosophy, pp. 412–428. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 1983 66. Review of E.G. Beltrametti and G. Cassinelli, The Logic of Quantum Mechanics, Physics Today 36 (December), 62–64. 67. “Reflections on the Philosophy of Bohr, Heisenberg, and Schroedinger” (translation of [62]). In R.S. Cohen and L. Laudan (eds.), Physics, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis (Boston Studies in Philosophy of Science, vol. 76), pp. 209–221. Dordrecht: Reidel. Reprinted in [110]. 68. “The Status of the Principle of Maximum Entropy”, Synthese 63, 35–53. Reprinted in [110]. 498 Bibliography of Abner Shimony 69. “Some Proposals Concerning Parts and Wholes”. In P. Sallstrom¨ (ed.), Parts and Wholes, vol. 1, pp.
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