Patrick Shields
Biographic Data
| ID | 5968709 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick Shields |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick |
| FAMILY NAME | Shields |
| SIGNATURE | SHIELDS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Notre Dame |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-6604-6948 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
From empirical symmetries to laws
The goal of this paper is to argue for a systematic set of connections between the philosophy literature on the empirical significance of symmetries and the physics literature on generating effective field theories using symmetry-breaking data via the coset construction. A salient case for exhibiting these connections is the symmetry principles exhibited by Newton’s Corollaries V and VI. In the following, we (i) argue for an interpretation of sym…
Beyond Spacetime
Beyond Spacetime: The Foundations of Quantum Gravity is one of two edited volumes stemming from a three-year research project led by Nick Huggett and Chris Wuthrich on the philosophy of quantum gravity, with the goal of “explor[ing] the idea that attempts to quantize gravity either significantly modify the structures of classical spacetime or replace them—and spacetime itself—altogether” (1). The background thought here is that such attempts natu…
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Beyond Spacetime
Beyond Spacetime: The Foundations of Quantum Gravity is one of two edited volumes stemming from a three-year research project led by Nick Huggett and Chris Wuthrich on the philosophy of quantum gravity, with the goal of “explor[ing] the idea that attempts to quantize gravity either significantly modify the structures of classical spacetime or replace them—and spacetime itself—altogether” (1). The background thought here is that such attempts natu…
From empirical symmetries to laws
The goal of this paper is to argue for a systematic set of connections between the philosophy literature on the empirical significance of symmetries and the physics literature on generating effective field theories using symmetry-breaking data via the coset construction. A salient case for exhibiting these connections is the symmetry principles exhibited by Newton’s Corollaries V and VI. In the following, we (i) argue for an interpretation of sym…
Relativity and Gravitational Theory (2 works) · Biofield Effects and Biophysics (1 works) · Causal sets (1 works) · Classical mechanics (1 works) · Effective field theory (1 works) · Field (mathematics) (1 works) · Gravitation (1 works) · Homogeneous space (1 works) · Hořava–Lifshitz gravity (1 works) · Interpretation (philosophy) (1 works)