Harvey Brown (philosopher)
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Harvey Brown
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| Birth | 4 April 1950 |
| School/tradition | Analytic philosophy |
| Main interests | Philosophy of physics |
Harvey R. Brown, (born April 4, 1950 in the United Kingdom) is a philosopher of physics. He is a Reader in Philosophy at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford.
[edit] Selected Works
- 1984. Albert Einstein. A simple man of vision, in Portuguese, Brasiliense, São Paulo.
- 1988. H.R. Brown and H.R. Harré (eds.). Philosophical Foundations of Quantum Field Theory, Oxford: Clarendon Press. Reprinted in paperback, 1990.
- 1991. S. Saunders and H.R. Brown (eds.). The Philosophy of Vacuum. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- 1996. 'Mindful of quantum possibilities'. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 47: 189-200.
- 1997. 'On the role of special relativity in general relativity'. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 11: 67-81.
- 1999. 'Aspects of objectivity in quantum mechanics'. In , J. Butterfield and C. Pagonis (eds.), From Physics to Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 45-70.
- 2001. 'The origins of length contraction: I the FitzGerald-Lorentz deformation hypothesis'. American Journal of Physics, 69: 1044-1054.
- 2003. With P Holland. 'The non-relativistic limit of the Maxwell and Dirac equations: The role of Galilean and gauge invariance', Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 34: 161-187.
- 2005. Physical Relativity. Space-time structure from a dynamical perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
