The Undivided Self: Aristotle and the Mind-Body Problem by David Charles
(2024)
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Simpson, W. (in press). The Undivided Self: Aristotle and the Mind-Body Problem by David Charles. Ancient Philosophy Today: Dialogoi,
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Whose Hylomorphism? Which Theory of Prime Matter? (2024)
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Moško, M., & Simpson, W. M. R. (2024). Whose Hylomorphism? Which Theory of Prime Matter?. Ancient Philosophy Today: Dialogoi, 6(1), 65-91. https://doi.org/10.3366/anph.2024.0103Medieval interpretations of hylomorphism, in which substances are conceived as metaphysical composites of prime matter and substantial form, are receiving attention in contemporary philosophy. It has even been suggested that a recovery of Aquinas's c... Read More about Whose Hylomorphism? Which Theory of Prime Matter?.
Prime Matter and Modern Physics (2024)
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Simpson, W. M. R. (2024). Prime Matter and Modern Physics. Ancient Philosophy Today: Dialogoi, 6(1), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.3366/anph.2024.0100
Small Worlds with Cosmic Powers (2023)
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Simpson, W. M. R. (2023). Small Worlds with Cosmic Powers. Journal of Philosophy, 120(8), 401-420. https://doi.org/10.5840/jphil2023120824
The Myth of the Physical Given (2022)
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Simpson, W. (2022). The Myth of the Physical Given. Revue Philosophique de Louvain, 119(1), 151-164
Reconsidering Causal Powers: Historical and Conceptual Perspectives, Eds. H. Lagerlund, B. Hill, S. Psillos (2021)
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Simpson, W. (2021). Reconsidering Causal Powers: Historical and Conceptual Perspectives, Eds. H. Lagerlund, B. Hill, S. Psillos. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 29(5), 958-960
Emergence: Towards a New Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science by M. Tabaczek (2021)
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Simpson, W. (2021). Emergence: Towards a New Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science by M. Tabaczek. The Thomist, 85, 159-163
What’s the Matter with Super-Humeanism? (2021)
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Simpson, W. M. R. (2021). What’s the Matter with Super-Humeanism?. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 72(3), 893-911. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axz028
Cosmic hylomorphism: A powerist ontology of quantum mechanics (2021)
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Simpson, W. M. R. (2021). Cosmic hylomorphism: A powerist ontology of quantum mechanics. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 11(1), Article 28. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-020-00342-5The primitive ontology approach to quantum mechanics seeks to account for quantum phenomena in terms of a distribution of matter in three-dimensional space (or four-dimensional spacetime) and a law of nature that describes its temporal development. T... Read More about Cosmic hylomorphism: A powerist ontology of quantum mechanics.
Ontological aspects of the Casimir Effect (2014)
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Simpson, W. M. R. (2014). Ontological aspects of the Casimir Effect. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 48(Part A), 84-88. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2014.08.001The role of the vacuum, in the Casimir Effect, is a matter of some dispute: the Casimir force has been variously described as a phenomenon resulting “from the alteration, by the boundaries, of the zero-point electromagnetic energy” (Bordag, Mohideen,... Read More about Ontological aspects of the Casimir Effect.
Casimir force in a compressive transformation medium (2013)
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Simpson, W. M. R. (2013). Casimir force in a compressive transformation medium. Physical Review A, 88(6), Article 063852. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.88.063852We consider an example of an idealized inhomogeneous metamaterial which, when introduced into a Casimir cavity, reduces the magnitude of the Casimir force. It has recently been argued, however, that Casimir-Lifshitz forces in inhomogeneous media are... Read More about Casimir force in a compressive transformation medium.
Cutoff dependence of the Casimir force within an inhomogeneous medium (2013)
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Horsley, S. A. R., & Simpson, W. M. R. (2013). Cutoff dependence of the Casimir force within an inhomogeneous medium. Physical Review A, 88(1), Article 013833. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.88.013833We consider the ground-state energy of the electromagnetic field in a piston geometry. In the idealized case, where the piston and the walls of the chamber are taken as perfect mirrors, the Casimir pressure on the piston is finite and independent of... Read More about Cutoff dependence of the Casimir force within an inhomogeneous medium.
Divergence of Casimir stress in inhomogeneous media (2013)
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Simpson, W. M. R., Horsley, S. A. R., & Leonhardt, U. (2013). Divergence of Casimir stress in inhomogeneous media. Physical Review A, 87(4), Article 043806. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.87.043806We examine the local behavior of the regularized stress tensor commonly used in calculations of the Casimir force for a dielectric medium inhomogeneous in one direction. It is shown that the usual expression for the stress tensor is not finite anywhe... Read More about Divergence of Casimir stress in inhomogeneous media.
Exact solution for the Casimir stress in a spherically symmetric medium (2011)
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Leonhardt, U., & Simpson, W. M. R. (2011). Exact solution for the Casimir stress in a spherically symmetric medium. Physical Review D, 84(8), Article 081701(R). https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.84.081701We calculated the stress of the quantum vacuum, the Casimir stress, in a spherically symmetric medium, Maxwell’s fish eye, surrounded by a perfect mirror and derived an exact analytic solution. Our solution questions the idea that the Casimir force o... Read More about Exact solution for the Casimir stress in a spherically symmetric medium.