E Brian Davies - Non-Mathematical Contributions

Warning: None of the pdf files here is of the final published version.

• EBD Official Home Page

• "Science in the Looking Glass"     book published 2003.

• "Why Beliefs Matter"     book published 2010.
  
  
  

• "Building infinite machines"
  British J. Phil. Sci. 52 (2001) 671-582.

• "The Role of Astronomy in the History of Science"
  Preprint June 2002. This article is deliberately controversial.

• "Realism in Physics"
  Appeared as "Quantum mechanics does not require the continuity of space"
  Stud. Hist. Phil. Modern Phys. 34 (2003) 319-328.

• "The Newtonian Myth"
  Studies Hist. Phil. Sci, part A, 34 (2003) 763-780.

• "Empiricism in Arithmetic and Analysis"
  Philosophia Mathematica (3) 11 (2003) 53-66.

• "Whither Mathematics?"
  Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 52 (no. 11) (2005) 1350-1356.
  Two letters about this appeared in the April 2006 issue of NAMS, together with my responses.

• "A defence of mathematical pluralism"
  Phil. Math. 13(3) (2005) 252-276.

• "Some remarks on the foundations of quantum mechanics."
  Brit. J. Phil. Sci. 56 (2005) 521-539

• " Pluralism in mathematics "
  Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. A 363 (2005) 2449-2460.

• " What is Mathematics About? "
  pdf file of a popular lecture given in April 2007.

• " Some Reflections on Newton's 'Principia' "
  British. J. Hist. Sci. 42 (2009) 211-224.

• "Platonism in Science and Mathematics"
  pdf file of DMV Gauss lecture in Jena 2010.

• "Review of a book of David Corfield"
  November 2011.

• "Archimedes' calculations of square roots"
  Preprint Jan 2011. Not published.