Philosophy Texts

Rudolf Carnap

• “Empiricism, Semantics and Ontology” (Supplement A in his Meaning and Necessity, second ed.)

John Earman

• A Primer on Determinism

Thomas Kuhn

• The Function of Dogma in Scientific Research, in A. Crombie (Ed.), Scientific Change, London: Basic Books, pp. 347–369. Proceedings of the Symposium on the History of Science, University of Oxford, 9–15 July 1961.

Imré Lakatos

• The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Philosophical Papers, Vol. 1, eds. J. Worrall and G. Currie, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978.

Gottfried Leibniz

• Selections from the Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence

Robert Nozick

• Invariances: The Structure of the Objective World (copyright 2001 Robert Nozick)

Charles Sanders Peirce

• “The Doctrine of Necessity Examined”
• Reasoning and the Logic of Things (1 page excerpt from the chapter “Causation and Force”)

Karl Popper

• The Logic of Scientific Discovery, London: Routledge Classics, 2002.

Bertrand Russell

• “On the Notion of Cause”

Howard Stein

• “Bibliography”
• “On Metaphysics and Method in Newton” (unpublished manuscript)
• “Further Considerations on Newton's Method” (unpublished manuscript)
• “Newton: Philosophy of Inquiry and Metaphysics of Nature” (unpublished manuscript)
• “How Does Physics Bear upon Metaphysics; and Why Did Plato Hold That Philosophy Cannot Be Written Down?” (unpublished manuscript)
• “Physics and Philosophy Meet: the Strange Case of Poincaré” (unpublished manuscript)
• “Newtonian Space-Time”, Texas Quarterly 10(1967):174–200.
• “Some Philosophical Prehistory of General Relativity”, in eds. J. Earman, C. Glymour, and J. Stachel, Foundations of Space-Time Theories (Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. VIII), Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1977, 3–49.
• “Yes, but ... : Some Skeptical Reflections on Realism and Anti-realism”, Dialectica, 1989, 43:47–65
• “On Locke, ‘the Great Huygenius, and the Incomparable Mr. Newton’”, Philosophical Perspectives on Newtonian Science, ed. P. Bricker and R. Hughes, MIT Press, Cambridge MA, 1990.
• “‘From the Phenomena of Motions to the Forces of Nature’: Hypothesis or Deduction?”, Proceedings of the Biennial PSA Conference, 1990, vol. 2, 209–222
• “Eudoxos and Dedekind: on the Ancient Greek Theory of Ratios and Its Relation to Modern Mathematics”, Synthese, 1990, 84:163–211.
• “Was Carnap Entirely Wrong, After All?”, Synthese, 1992, 93:275–295.
• “Some Reflections on the Structure of Our Knowledge in Physics”, in eds. Prawitz, D. and B. Skyrms and D. Westerståhl, Logic, Metholodogy and Philosophy of Science, New York: Elsevier Science B.V., 1994, 633–655. Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science
• “The Enterprise of Understanding and the Enterprise of Knowledge”, Synthese, 2004, 140:135–176

Steve Martin

• “Philosophy, Religion and College” (from his album A Wild and Crazy Guy)

Physics Texts

Albert Einstein

• “Geometry and Experience&rdquo, in his Sidelights on Relativity (no copyright)

Richard Feynman

• Lectures on Physics, 1.12, “Characteristics of Force”
• Lectures on Physics, 1.52, “Symmetry in Physical Laws”

Robert Geroch

• Geroch's own page with his course lectures and notes
• “On the Role of Math in Physics” (from chapter 1 of his book Mathematical Physics)
• “Mathematical Assertion” (unpublished remarks)
• “Computation—Quantum and Otherwise” (unpublished lecture notes)
• “Energy Extraction” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1973, 224:108–117
• “Geometrical Quantum Mechanics” (unpublished lecture notes)
• “Definitions for Maniofolds, Measures and Hilbert Spaces” (unpublished notes)
• “Measure Theory” (unpublished notes)
• “Path Integrals” (unpublished notes)
• “Special Topics in Particle Physics (Notes on Quantum Field Theory)” (unpublished lecture notes)
• “A Watched Pot Never Boils?” (unpublished paper on observation in quantum mechanics)

James Clerk Maxwell

• Matter and Motion, 1925 ed. No copyright.
• “The Clerk Maxwell Collection” (listing of Maxwell's personal library, donated to the Rayleigh Library at the Cavendish Laboraties)
• “Poems” (poems by Maxwell)
• “The Published Scientific Papers and Books of James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879)” (a bibliography)
• The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell, Volume I, from the Dover Publications: New York, 1965, 2 volumes bound as 1. A reprint of the original Cambridge University Press edition of 1890. No copyright.
• The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell, Volume II, from the Dover Publications: New York, 1965, 2 volumes bound as 1. A reprint of the original Cambridge University Press edition of 1890. No copyright.
• Theory of Heat, London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1904. With corrections by Lord Rayleigh. No copyright.

Isaac Newton

• “De Gravitatione et Æquipondio Fluidorum” (selected passages; revised translation and interpolated comments by Howard Stein)
• “Author's Preface to the First Edition”, from his Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, the translation by A. Motte of the third edition (1726), originally produced in 1729.
• “Rules of Reasoning in Philosophy”, from his Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, the translation by A. Motte of the third edition (1726), originally produced in 1729.

Jules Henri Poincaré

• Science and Hypothesis. No copyright.

J. L. Synge

• Relativity: The Special Theory
• Relativity: The General Theory

Math Texts

Hermann Helmholtz

• “On the Origin and Significance of the Geometrical Axioms” (Translated by Howard Stein, from Populäre Wissenshaftliche Vorträge von H. Helmholtz, Braunschweig, 1876, Heft 3, pp. 23–51.)

Donald Knuth

• “The Potrzebi System of Units and Measurements”

Bernhard Riemann

• “On the Hypotheses, Which Lie at the Basis of Geometry” (Translated by Howard Stein.)

Fompy Stuff

Hunter S. Thompson

• Hunter S. Thompson, on The Doors and their album “Morrison Hotel”