Kristian Camilleri

Quantum mechanics comes of age

Kristian Camilleri

Journal article  |  2022  |  Metascience

Orthodoxy and heterodoxy in the post-war era

K Camilleri

Book Chapter  |  2022

This chapter focuses on the responses of physicists such as Heisenberg, Pauli, von Neumann, Born, Dirac and Jordan, to the new wav..

H. Dieter Zeh and the History of the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics

K Camilleri

Book Chapter  |  2022

H. D. Zeh’s early work on the foundations of quantum mechanics and his struggle for recognition provides an instructive case study..

Bohr and the problem of the quantum-to-classical transition

M Schlosshauer, K Camilleri

Book Chapter  |  2017

The Modern mind [Review of the book The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind, by A.C. Grayling]

K Camilleri

Journal article  |  2017  |  Australian Book Review

Why do we find Bohr obscure? Reading Bohr as a philosopher of experiment

K Camilleri

Book Chapter  |  2017

Niels Bohr's philosophical view of quantum mechanics has been the subject of extensive scholarship for the better part of five dec..

Knowing what would happen: The epistemic strategies in Galileo's thought experiments

Kristian Camilleri

Journal article  |  2015  |  STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

While philosophers have subjected Galileo's classic thought experiments to critical analysis, they have tended to largely ignored ..

The role of heuristic appraisal in conflicting assessments of string theory

Kristian Camilleri, Sophie Ritson

Journal article  |  2015  |  STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN PHYSICS

Over the last three decades, string theory has emerged as one of the leading hopes for a consistent theory of quantum gravity that..

Contested boundaries: The string theory debates and ideologies of science

S Ritson, K Camilleri

Journal article  |  2015  |  Perspectives on Science

Over the last three decades, physicists have engaged in, sometimes heated, debates about relative merits and prospects of string t..

Niels Bohr as philosopher of experiment: Does decoherence theory challenge Bohr's doctrine of classical concepts?

K Camilleri, M Schlosshauer

Journal article  |  2015  |  STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN PHYSICS

Niels Bohr's doctrine of the primacy of "classical concepts" is arguably his most criticized and misunderstood view. We present a ..