Published
Papers and Books by Quentin Smith, Philosophy Professor, on
Philosophy of Physics
Papers are listed chronologically,
starting with the most recent.
The Black Hole Origin Theory of the Universe and
Quantum Gravity (2004)
Why
Cognitive Scientists Cannot Ignore Quantum Mechanics (2003)
Time
Was Created by a Timeless Point: An Atheist Explanation of Spacetime (2001)
The
Incompatibility of STR and the Tensed Theory of Time (2001)
Problems with John Earman's Attempt to Reconcile Theism with General Relativity
(2000)
Concerning
the Metaphysical Necessity of the Universe Beginning Uncaused: A reply to
George Nakhnikian (2000)
The
Reason the Universe Exists is that it Caused Itself to Exist (1998)
Absolute
Simultaneity and the Infinity of Time (1998)
Essay
on Leslie's The End of the World (1998)
Swinburne's
Explanation of the Universe (1998)
Why
Stephen Hawking's Cosmology Precludes a Creator (1998)
The
Ontological Interpretation of the Wave Function of the Universe (1997)
Simplicity
and Why the Universe Exists (1997)
Quantum
Cosmology's Implication of Atheism (1997)
A Defense of a
Principle of Sufficient Reason (1995)
Stephen Hawking's Cosmology and Theism (1994)
Did the Big Bang Have a Cause?
(1994)
A
Big Bang Cosmological Argument For God's Nonexistence (1992)
The
New Theory of Reference Entails Absolute Time and Space (1991)
Atheism, Theism
and Big Bang Cosmology (1991)
A Natural Explanation of the Existence and Laws of Our Universe (1990)
A
New Typology of Temporal and Atemporal Permanence (1989)
The
Uncaused Beginning of the Universe (1988)
Infinity
and the Past (1987)
The Anthropic Principle and Many-Worlds Cosmologies (1985)
The
Mind-Independence of Temporal Becoming (1985)