John D. Norton
Talks

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"small-e empiricism"       slides

 
"How the material theory of induction dissolves the problem of induction"   slides

 
"Chance Combinatorics"       slides

 
"Uniformed Thermodynamics"       slides

 
 
"The Large-Scale Structure of Inductive Inference"       slides

 
"How to Escape Popper's Regress Version of the Problem of Induction"       slides

 
"Einstein on Singularities: Analysis versus Geometry"       slides

 
"Maxwell's Meandering Demon"       slides

 
"Is Time Travel Possible"       slides

 
"Approximation and Idealization: Why the Difference Matters"       slides

 
"Lotteries, bookmaking and ancient randomizers: Local and global analyses of chance"       slides

 
"Eternal Inflation: When Probabilities Fail"       slides

 
"The Infinite Lottery"       slides

 
"Why Falsifiability does not Demarcate Science from Pseudoscience"       slides

 
"Atoms Entropy Quanta: Einstein’s Statistical Physics of 1905"       slides

 
"How Analogy Helped Create the New Science of Thermodynamics"       slides

 
"The Rise and Fall of Karl Popper’s Anti-inductivism"       slides

 
"The Material Theory of Induction, Introduced"       slides

 
"There is No Complete Calculus of Inductive Inference"       slides

 
"Why Not Bayes"       slides

 
"How to Make Possibility Safe for Empiricists"       slides

 
"The Metaphysics of Causation: An Empiricist Critique"       slides

 
"Thought Experiments in Science"       slides

 
"Einstein’s Zurich Notebook"       slides

 
"How Hume and Mach Helped Einstein Find Special Relativity"       slides

 
"Simplicity as a Surrogate"       slides

 
"The Impossible Process: Thermodynamic Reversibility"       slides

 
"Cosmic Confusions: Not Supporting versus Supporting Not-"       slides

 
"Curie's Axiom Truism"       slides

 
"The Error that Showed the Way: Einstein’s Path to his Gravitational Field Equations"       slides

 
"Galileo’s refutation of the speed-distance law of fall rehabilitated"       slides
(with Bryan Roberts)

 
"The Dome: An Unexpectedly Simple Failure of Determinism"       slides