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This category includes websites on topics such 'Scientific Revolutions' and 'paradigm shifts' as well on the interaction of physical science with the philosophy of the time, such as the postivistic philosophy of Mach and Carnap, and their influence on Quantum Mechanics (QM) and Relativity.

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Physics in Popular Culture (16) Quantum Reality and Locality (27)

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MathPages: Physics Collection of essays, not always orthodox, but always lucid, on historical and important current issues in mathematics and physics. www.mathpages.com/home/iphysics.htm

Experiment in Physics On the uses, value, and epistomelogy of experiment. By Allan Franklin, University of Colorado. plato.stanford.edu/entries/physics-experiment

Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions 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. www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/kuhn.htm

Philosophy and Foundations A collection of links, from Norman Redington at MIT. web.mit.edu/../../user/r/e/redingtn/www/netadv/founds.html

Identity and Individuality in Quantum Theory 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. plato.stanford.edu/entries/qt-idind

Philosophical Foundations of Physics by R. Carnap Positivist view of Physics, which had influenced the Copenhagen Interpretation of the Quantum mechanics (CI). www.marxists.org/../subject/philosophy/works/ge/carnap.htm

Science, Pseudoscience and Society Papers by Feynman on paranormal 'sciences', Sokal Affair (use of pseudo-physics in social sciences), critique of Kuhn. Also a collection of links. www.softpanorama.org/Skeptics/index.shtml

Consciousness, Life and Meaning Essay on evolution and consciousness by Piero Scaruffi. www.thymos.com/tat/emergenc.html

Review of "The Emperor's New Mind", by Roger Penrose His exploration is so much more serious philosophically than almost anything that has been done since Einstein and Schrodinger www.friesian.com/penrose.htm

Events in History of Physics Time-lines of thermodynamics, electromagnetism, and symmetry. With links to other time-lines and resources. history.hyperjeff.net

Quantum Quackery Skeptical overview of QM and consciousness connection. www.csicop.org/si/9701/quantum-quackery.html

Digital Philosophy -- Discrete Physics Assuming that all quantities, including space and time, are finite and discrete. www.digitalphilosophy.org

Shakespeare and Thermodynamics - Dam the Second Law! What the second law of thermodynamics is all about, and how it is constantly 'dammed' or blocked by activation energy www.shakespeare2ndlaw.com

Philosophy of Physics A collection of articles and notes from Soshichi Uchii, at Kyoto University. www.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~suchii/physics.index.html

The Mind of God A review of Paul Davies' exposition of foundational philosophical issues. dannyreviews.com/h/The_Mind_of_God.html

PhysicsWeb - This is Your Philosophy Are physicists realists? - results of a poll. physicsweb.org/article/world/15/4/2

Space and Time: Inertial Frames On the frames of reference relative to which motion and rest are measured; by Robert DiSalle. plato.stanford.edu/entries/spacetime-iframes

Robert Rosen - Understanding Life and Physics A resource site on the works of Robert Rosen, who showed that biological systems demonstrate complexities and physics beyond the strictures of Newtonian mechanics. www.panmere.com/rosen

A New Kind of Science - critical review Detailed and critical review by Ray Kurzweil of the book by Stephen Wolfram. www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0464.html?printable=1

Wikipedia - EPR Paradox 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. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_paradox

The Bactra Reviews A set of book and article reviews, not limited to physics. cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/reviews

A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram 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. www.wolframscience.com/nksonline

PhilSci Archive - Subject: Physics Collection of papers on causality, free will etc philsci-archive.pitt.edu/view/subjects/physics.html

From Paradox to Paradigm Bibligraphy of applets illustrating important issues in Physics (an Appletography perhaps?) www.paradox-paradigm.nl

Chronon Critical Points Scientific applets, articles and book critically examine claims made in popular books www.chronon.org