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Click here for a complete list of my publications in PDF format. Also, I try to maintain a list of works citing my papers. Please let me know if you make reference to my work, I would be delighted to know!

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Approaching the Planck Scale From a Relativistic Point of View: A Philosophical Appraisal of Loop Quantum Gravity

This is the PhD Dissertation I wrote at the University of Pittsburgh under the supervision of John Earman. [Short description] [PDF]


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Do the laws of physics forbid the operation of time machines? (with John Earman and Christopher Smeenk) [PhilSci Archive (Earlier preprint)]

Synthese (in press).



A twist in the geometry of rotating black holes: seeking the cause of acausality (with Hajnal Andréka and István Németi) [PDF] [arXiv]

General Relativity and Gravitation (in press).



Zeitreisen und Zeitmaschinen (in German) [PDF (penultimate version)]

In Thomas Müller (ed.), Philosophie der Zeit: Neue analytische Ansätze. Vittorio Klostermann (Frankfurt a.M., 2007), pp. 191-219.



To quantize or not to quantize: fact and folklore in quantum gravity [PDF] [PhilSci Archive]

Philosophy of Science 72 (2005): 777-788.



Time machines (with John Earman) [PDF] [Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]

In Edward N. Zalta (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2004 Edition), URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2004/entries/time-machine/>.



Generic incomparability of infinite-dimensional entangled states (with Rob Clifton and Brian Hepburn) [PDF] [arXiv]

Physics Letters A303 (2002): 121-124.


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Review of Katherine Brading and Elena Castellani (eds.), Symmetries in physics: philosophical reflections, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003 [PDF] [Journal]

Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 36 (2005): 576-582.



Review of Nick Bostrom, Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy, New York: Routledge, 2002 [PDF] [Journal]

Philosophy of Science 71 (2004): 230-232.



Review of Helena Eilstein (ed.), A Collection of Polish Works on Philosophical Problems of Time and Spacetime, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2002 [PDF] [Journal]

Erkenntnis 60 (2004): 265-270.


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