Roberts, Bryan W.

Number of items: 29.
Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Sciences (CPNSS)
  • Roberts, Bryan W. (2025). The conventionality of geometry is merely incomplete. Philosophy of Science, https://doi.org/10.1017/psa.2025.10183 picture_as_pdf
  • Roberts, Bryan W. (2016). Curie’s hazard: from electromagnetism to symmetry violation. Erkenntnis, 81(5), 1011-1029. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-015-9779-1
  • Manchak, John, Roberts, Bryan W. (2016). Supertasks. In Zalta, E. N. (Ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy . Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University.
  • Roberts, Bryan W. (2015). Weak interactions and the curious little arrow of time.
  • Roberts, Bryan W. (2015). Comment on Ashtekar: generalization of Wigner's principle. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 52(Part A), 21-23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2014.08.008
  • Roberts, Bryan W. (2015). Three merry roads to T-violation. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 52(Part A), 8-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2014.08.003
  • Roberts, Bryan W. (2014). The simple failure of Curie’s Principle: How to get out what hasn’t gone in.
  • Roberts, Bryan W. (2014). A general perspective on time observables. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 47, 50-54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2014.05.001
  • Roberts, Bryan W. (2012). Time, symmetry and structure: a study in the foundations of quantum theory [Doctoral thesis]. University of Pittsburgh.
    • Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
  • Roberts, Bryan W. (2026). Does thermodynamics have a reversibility problem? Mind, https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzag008 [In Press] picture_as_pdf
  • Roberts, Bryan W. (2022). Reversing the arrow of time. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009122139 picture_as_pdf
  • Gomes, Henrique, Roberts, Bryan W., Butterfield, Jeremy (2022). The gauge argument: a Noether reason. In Read, J. & Teh, N. J. (Eds.), The Philosophy and Physics of Noether’s Theorems: A Centenary Volume (pp. 354 - 376). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108665445.015
  • Roberts, Bryan W., Teira, David (29 January 2021) Publishing philosophy Open Access without a Particle Collider. Impact of Social Sciences Blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Roberts, Bryan W., Butterfield, Jeremy (2020). Time-energy uncertainty does not create particles. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 1638(1). https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1638/1/012005 picture_as_pdf
  • Roberts, Bryan W. (2020). Regarding 'Leibniz Equivalence'. Foundations of Physics, 50(4), 250 - 269. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-020-00325-9 picture_as_pdf
  • Roberts, Bryan W. (2018). Observables, disassembled. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 63, 150-162. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2018.02.002 picture_as_pdf
  • Roberts, Bryan W. (2017). Unreal observables. Philosophy of Science, 84(5), 1265-1274. https://doi.org/10.1086/694298
  • Roberts, Bryan W. (2017). Three myths about time reversal in quantum theory. Philosophy of Science, 84(2), 315 - 334. https://doi.org/10.1086/690721
  • Roberts, Bryan W. (2015). Weak interactions and the curious little arrow of time.
  • Roberts, Bryan W. (2015). Comment on Ashtekar: generalization of Wigner's principle. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 52(Part A), 21-23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2014.08.008
  • Roberts, Bryan W. (2015). Three merry roads to T-violation. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 52(Part A), 8-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2014.08.003
  • Roberts, Bryan W. (2014). The simple failure of Curie’s Principle: How to get out what hasn’t gone in.
  • Roberts, Bryan W. (2014). A general perspective on time observables. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 47, 50-54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2014.05.001
  • Roberts, Bryan W. (2013). When we do (and do not) have a classical arrow of time. Philosophy of Science, 80(5), 1112 - 1124. https://doi.org/10.1086/674001
  • Roberts, Bryan W. (2013). The simple failure of Curie’s principle. Philosophy of Science, 80(4), 579-592. https://doi.org/10.1086/673212
  • Roberts, Bryan W. (2012-11-15 - 2012-11-17) When we do (and do not) have a classical arrow of time [Paper]. PSA 2012 Biennial Meeting, San Diego, United States, USA.
  • Roberts, Bryan W. (2012). Time, symmetry and structure: a study in the foundations of quantum theory [Doctoral thesis]. University of Pittsburgh.
  • Norton, John D., Roberts, Bryan W. (2012). Galileo's refutation of the speed-distance law of fall rehabilitated. Centaurus, 54(2), 148-164. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0498.2012.00260.x
  • Roberts, Bryan W. (2012). Kramers degeneracy without eigenvectors. Physical Review A, 86(3). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.86.034103
  • Norton, John D., Roberts, Bryan W. (2012). The scaling of speeds and distances in Galileo's two new sciences: a reply to Palmerino and Laird. Centaurus, 54(2), 182-191. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0498.2012.00263.x
  • Roberts, Bryan W. (2011). Group structural realism. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 62(1), 47-69. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axq009
  • Roberts, Bryan W. (2011). How Galileo dropped the ball and Fermat picked it up. Synthese, 180(3), 337-356. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-009-9705-7
  • Roberts, Bryan W. (2010-11-04 - 2010-11-06) How to time reverse a quantum system [Paper]. PSA 2010 Biennial Meeting, Montréal, Canada, CAN.
  • Roberts, Bryan W. (2010-07-08 - 2010-07-09) How to time reverse a quantum system [Paper]. British Society for the Philosophy of Science Annual Meeting, Dublin, Ireland, IRL.
  • Roberts, Bryan W. (2010-02-08 - 2010-02-09) How to time reverse a quantum system [Paper]. North Carolina Philosophical Society annual meeting, North Carolina, United States, USA.