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Collection of essays, not always orthodox, but always lucid, on historical and important current issues in mathematics and physics.
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MathPages: Physics Physics Phase, Group, and Signal Velocity Lead-Lag Frequency Response Potential Flow and d'Alembert's Paradox The Hydrogen Atom Probabilities and Velocities Huygens Principle The Speed of Sound Electrodynamics The Curl of the Curl Born Rigidity, Acceleration, and Inertia The Filter Of...Positivist view of Physics, which had influenced the Copenhagen Interpretation of the Quantum mechanics (CI).
http://www.marxists.org/referenc...t/philosophy/works/ge/carnap.htm
Crucial chapter from Kuhn's famous book outlining how sciences is forced to go through a paradigm-shift, and see the world in terms of a new theory and new concepts.
http://www.marxists.org/referenc...ect/philosophy/works/us/kuhn.htm
Assesses the metaphysical implications of quantum theory by considering the impact of the theory on our understanding of objects as individuals with well defined identity conditions. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Steven French.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qt-idind/
On the uses, value, and epistomelogy of experiment. By Allan Franklin, University of Colorado.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/physics-experiment/
On the frames of reference relative to which motion and rest are measured; by Robert DiSalle.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spacetime-iframes/
A collection of links, from Norman Redington at MIT.
http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena.mi.../redingtn/www/netadv/founds.html
Papers by Feynman on paranormal 'sciences', Sokal Affair (use of pseudo-physics in social sciences), critique of Kuhn. Also a collection of links.
http://www.softpanorama.org/Skeptics/index.shtml
Essay on evolution and consciousness by Piero Scaruffi.
http://www.thymos.com/tat/emergenc.html
His exploration is so much more serious philosophically than almost anything that has been done since Einstein and Schrodinger
http://www.friesian.com/penrose.htm
Skeptical overview of QM and consciousness connection.
http://www.csicop.org/si/9701/quantum-quackery.html
Assuming that all quantities, including space and time, are finite and discrete.
http://www.digitalphilosophy.org/
What the second law of thermodynamics is all about, and how it is constantly 'dammed' or blocked by activation energy
http://www.shakespeare2ndlaw.com/
A collection of articles and notes from Soshichi Uchii, at Kyoto University.
http://www.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~suchii/physics.index.html
A review of Paul Davies' exposition of foundational philosophical issues.
http://dannyreviews.com/h/The_Mind_of_God.html
Are physicists realists? - results of a poll.
http://physicsweb.org/article/world/15/4/2
Biological systems demonstrate complexities beyond the strictures of Newtonian mechanics. (Robert Rosen)
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Robert Rosen Complexity and Life Perhaps the first lesson to be learned from biology is that there are lessons to be learned from biology Robert Rosen, Essays on Life Itself I do not accept a priori subjective conditions, imposed in advance, as constituting scientific knowledge,...Detailed and critical review by Ray Kurzweil of the book by Stephen Wolfram.
http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0464.html?printable=1
On the experiment to show that a measurement performed on one part of a quantum system can have an instantaneous effect on the result of a measurement performed on another part.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_paradox
A set of book and article reviews, not limited to physics.
http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/reviews/
Science from the point of view of complex systems: from the origins of apparent randomness in physical systems, to the development of complexity in biology.
http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/
Collection of papers on causality, free will etc
http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/view/subjects/physics.html
Scientific applets, articles and book critically examine claims made in popular books
http://www.chronon.org