Simon Saunders

SIMON SAUNDERS

Publications

BOOKS

Many Worlds?: Everett, quantum theory, and realism, S. Saunders, J. Barrett, A. Kent, and D. Wallace (eds), Oxford (2010).

The Philosophy of Vacuum, S. Saunders and H. Brown (eds.), Oxford (991).

ARTICLES

2016 ‘The emergence of individuals in physics’, in Individuals Across the Sciences, A. Guay and T. Pradeu (eds.), OUP.

2013 ‘Rethinking Newton’s Principia’, Philosophy of Science, 80, 22-48.

2013 ‘Indistinguishability’, in Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Physics, R. Batterman (ed.), Oxford.

2010 a ‘Chance in the Everett Interpretation’, in Many Worlds?: Everett, quantum theory, and reality,, S. Saunders, J. Barrett, A. Kent, and D. Wallace (eds), Oxford: Oxford University Press (forthcoming).

2010b ‘Many worlds? An introduction’, in Many Worlds?: Everett, quantum theoryand reality,, S. Saunders, J. Barrett, A. Kent, and D. Wallace (eds), Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2008b (with F. Muller), ‘Distinguishing Fermions’, British Journal of Philosophy of Science, 59, 499-548.

2008a (with D. Wallace) ‘Branching and Uncertainty’, British Journal of Philosophy of Science, 59, 293-305. Available on-line at:

2007 ‘Mirroring as an A Priori Symmetry’, Philosophy of Science, 74, 452-480.

2006a ‘On the Explanation of Quantum Statistics’, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 37, 192-211. Available online at

2006b‘Are Quantum Particles Objects?’,Analysis, 66, 52-63.

2005a ‘Complementarity and Scientific Rationality’, Foundations of Physics, 35, 347-72.Available online at

2005b ‘What is Probability?’, in Quo Vadis Quantum Mechanics, A. Elitzur, S. Dolev, and N. Kolenda, eds., Springer..

2004a ‘Derivation of the Born Rule from Operational Assumptions’, Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 460, 1-18.

2003a: ‘Physics and Leibniz’s Principles’, in Symmetries in Physics: Philosophical Reflections, K. Brading and E. Castellani, eds., Cambridge University Press

2003c ‘Structural Realism, Again’, Synthese, 136, 127-33.

2003d ‘Indiscernibles, General Covariance, and Other Symmetries: the Case for Non-reductive Relationalism', in Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics: Festschrift in Honour of John Stachel, A. Ashtekar, D. Howard, J. Renn, S. Sarkar, and A. Shimony, (eds.), Kluwer.

2002a ‘Is the Zero-Point Energy Real?’, in Ontological Aspects of Quantum Field Theory, M. Kuhlmann, H. Lyre, and A. Wayne, (eds)., Singapore: World Scientific.

2002b, ‘Why Relativity Contradicts Presentism’, Time, Reality, and Experience, C. Callender, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2002. Reprinted in Time and Physics: Volume 4 of he Philosophy of Time , N. Oaklander, ed., Routledge: forthcoming.

2001a ‘Space-Time and Probability', in Chance in Physics: Foundations and Perspectives, J. Bricmont, D. Dürr, M.C. Galavotti, G. Ghirardi, F. Petruccione, N. Zanghi (eds.), Springer-Verlag,.

2000 ‘Tense and Indeterminateness', Philosophy of Science (Proceedings),67, S600-611.

1999 ‘The "Beables" of Relativistic Pilot-Wave Theory', in From Physics to Philosophy, J. Butterfield, and C. Pagonis, (eds.), Cambridge University Press.

1998a ‘Hertz's Principles', in Heinrich Hertz: Classical Physicist, Modern Philosopher, D. Baird et al, (eds.), Kluwer.

1998b’Time, Quantum Mechanics, and Probability', Synthese, 114, p.405-44.

1996a ‘Time, Quantum Mechanics, and Tense', Synthese, 107, 19-53.

1996b ‘Naturalizing Metaphysics', The Monist, 80, p.44-69.

1995a ‘Time, Quantum Mechanics, and Decoherence', Synthese, 102, 235-66, 1995.

1995b ‘Relativism', in Perspectives on Quantum Reality, R. Clifton, ed., Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1995, p.125-42.

1994a ‘A Dissolution of the Problem of Locality", Philosophy of Science (Proceedings), Vol.2, p.88-98.

1994b ‘Time and Quantum Mechanics', in Physics and the Now, M. Bitbol, ed., Editions Frontieres, Paris, p.21-70.

1994c 'What is the Problem of Measurement', Harvard Review of Philosophy, Spring 1994.

1994d ‘Decoherence and Evolutionary Adaptation', Physics LettersA 184, p.1-5.

1994e `Remarks on Decoherent Histories Theory and the Problem of Measurement', in Stochastic Evolution of Quantum States in Open Systems and in Measurement Processes, L. Di¢si, ed., p.94-105, World Scientific, Singapore.

1993a ‘Decoherence, Relative States, and Evolutionary Adaptation', Foundations of Physics, 23, 1553-1585.

1993b ‘To What Physics Corresponds', in Correspondence, Invariance, and Heuristics; Essays in Honour of Heinz Post, S. French and H. Kaminga, (eds.), Kluwer, p.295-326.

1992 ‘Locality, Complex Numbers, and Relativistic Quantum Theory', Proceedings of the Philosophy of ScienceAssociation, Vol.1, 1992, p.365-380.

1991 ‘The Negative Energy Sea', in Philosophy of Vacuum, S. Saunders and H. Brown (eds.), Clarendon Press, 1991, p.65-110.

1991 ‘Reflections on Ether' (with H. Brown), in Philosophy of Vacuum, p.27-64.

1988 ‘The Algebraic Approach to Quantum Field Theory', in Philosophical Foundations of Quantum Field Theory, H. Brown and R. Harre (eds.), Clarendon Press.

REVIEWS

2009a ‘Identity’, Compendium of Quantum Physics: Concepts, Experiments, History and Philosophy.Friedel Weinert, Klaus Hentschel, Dan Greenberger, (eds.). Springer-Verlag.

2009b ‘Fermi-Dirac Statistics’, Compendium of Quantum Physics: Concepts, Experiments, History and Philosophy.Friedel Weinert, Klaus Hentschel, Dan Greenberger, eds.. Springer-Verlag.

2007 ‘The Philosophy of Physics’, The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Science, S, Psillos and M. Curd, eds.,Routledge.

2003 ‘Critical Notice: Cao’s “Conceptual Developments of 20th Century Field Theories”’, Synthese, 136, 79-105.

2001b ‘Review of The Quantum Mechanics of Mind and World by J. Barrett’, Mind, 110, 1039-43.

2000a ‘Clock-Watcher', review of J. Barbour, The End of Time, New York Times Book Review, March 26, 2000.