Published
Papers by Quentin Smith, Philosophy Professor, on
The Philosophy of Science
Papers are listed chronologically,
starting with the most recent.
Why
Cognitive Scientists Cannot Ignore Quantum Mechanics (2003)
The Incompatibility of STR and the Tensed Theory of Time (2002)
The Metaphilosophy
of Naturalism (2001)
Time
Was Created by a Timeless Point: An Atheist Explanation of Spacetime (2001)
Concerning
the Metaphysical Necessity of the Universe Beginning Uncaused: A reply to
George Nakhnikian (2000)
Problems
with John Earman's Attempt to Reconcile Theism with General Relativity (2000)
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)
Simplicity
and Why the Universe Exists (1997)
The Metaphysical
Necessity of Natural Laws (1996)
A Defense of a
Principle of Sufficient Reason (1995)
Explanatory
Rationalism and Contingent Truths (1995)
John
Leslie's The End of the World (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)
The
Uncaused Beginning of the Universe (1988)