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MCMP – Philosophy of Physics, 65 episodes.

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Title
1

Physics without Fundamental Time

2

Facets of Time in Physics

3

The Gravitational Arrow of Time

4

First-Class Constraints, Gauge, and the Wheeler-DeWitt Equation

5

Changing Observables in Canonical General Relativity from Hamiltonian-Lagrangian Equivalence

6

Constraints, Dirac Observables and Chaos

7

The Consistent Boundary Formulation

8

In Favour of a Schrödinger Evolution of the Universe

9

Timeless Quantum Mechanics in Configuration Space: an Outsider View

10

Discrete Time in Quantum Gravity

11

The Intrinsic Hamilton-Jacobi Dynamics of General Relativity and its Implications for the Semi-Classical Emergence of Time

12

A Categorial Approach to Relativistic Locality

13

Bayesian Perspectives on the Higgs Search

14

Best Possible Worlds and Random Walks: The Principle of Least Action as a Thought Experiment

15

QBism and the Born rule

16

Quantum Information: Conceptual and Ontological Aspects

17

Dualities

18

Corpuscular Structure of Geometry

19

A Trope Bundle Interpretation of Algebraic Quantum Field Theory

20

Fiber Bundles, Yang-Mills Theory, and General Relativity

21

Relativistic Quantum Particles the Feynman Way

22

Classical Field Theory and Intertheoretic Reduction

23

On Fiber Bundle and Holonomy Interpretations of Yang-Mills Theories

24

Unitary Inequivalence in Classical Systems

25

A New Prescription for the Quantization of Refoliation Invariant Field Theories

26

The Primitive Ontology of Quantum Physics

27

QBism: A Subjective Way to Take Ontic Indeterminism Seriously

28

Reduction and the Ontology of Physical Theories

29

Shape Dynamics

30

An Introduction to Shape Dynamics: a New Perspective on Quantum Gravity

31

Against Dogma: Locality, Conditionalisation, and Collapse in Relativistic Quantum Mechanics

32

How to Bite the Bullet of Quidditism - Why a Standard Argument against Categoricalism in Physics Fails

33

New Work on the Problem of Time

34

Are Classical Black Holes Hot or Cold?

35

The Bohmian challenge

36

Emergent spacetime in condensed matter analogues of general relativity

37

Gravity. An exercise in quantization

38

The (philosophy of the) Higgs

39

A Dynamical Origin of the Arrow of Time

40

Things happen, they just happen in a partial order

41

Against the Gravity/Inertia split?

42

The Gravity-Inertia split in Newtonian and Relativistic Contexts

43

Inertia and the Conformal-Projective Decomposition for Nordström-Einstein-Fokker, Massive Scalar, Einstein, and Massive Spin 2 Gravities

44

On Causal Explanations of Quantum Correlations

45

Barbour's Shape Space as an Ontology for Gravity

46

Kendall’s Shape Statistics as a Classical Realization of Barbour-type Timeless Records Theory Approach to Quantum Gravity

47

Leibniz, Mach and Barbour

48

From the microscopic to the macroscopic world

49

The Neglect of Fluctuations in the Thermodynamics of Computation

50

Inertial Motion, Explanation, and the Foundations of Classical Spacetime Theories

51

Feynman Diagrams as Models

52

Dualities and the Physical Content of Theories

53

Comment on Dean Rickles' "Dualities and the Physical Content of Theories"

54

Comment on Daniele Oriti's "Dissappearance and Emergence of Space and Time in Quantum Gravity"

55

Disappearance and Emergence of Space and Time in Quantum Gravity

56

String Theory and Scientific Realism

57

Comment on Richard Dawid's "String Theory and Scientific Realism"

58

Time Remains

59

Real Change Happens in Hamiltonian General Relativity; Just Ask the Lagrangian (about Time-like Killing Vectors, First-Class Constraints and Observables)

60

Time and space in causal set theory

61

Einstein's approach to Quantum Gravity

62

The "Shut up and Calculate" Approach to Quantum Gravity

63

Quantum Geometrodynamics: whence, whither?

64

Bohmian Mechanics, speakable quantum physics

65

Quantisation as a guide to ontic structure