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A New Kind of Science - critical review
http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0464.html?printable=1
Detailed and critical review by Ray Kurzweil of the book by Stephen Wolfram.

A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram
http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/
Science from the point of view of complex systems: from the origins of apparent randomness in physical systems, to the development of complexity in biology.

Consciousness, Life and Meaning
http://www.thymos.com/tat/emergenc.html
Essay on evolution and consciousness by Piero Scaruffi.

Digital Philosophy -- Discrete Physics
http://www.digitalphilosophy.org/
Assuming that all quantities, including space and time, are finite and discrete.

Events in History of Physics
http://history.hyperjeff.net/
Time-lines of thermodynamics, electromagnetism, and symmetry. With links to other time-lines and resources.

Experiment in Physics
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/physics-experiment/
On the uses, value, and epistomelogy of experiment. By Allan Franklin, University of Colorado.

Identity and Individuality in Quantum Theory
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qt-idind/
Assesses the metaphysical implications of quantum theory by considering the impact of the theory on our understanding of objects as individuals with well defined identity conditions. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Steven French.

Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions
http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/kuhn.htm
Crucial chapter from Kuhn's famous book outlining how sciences is forced to go through a paradigm-shift, and see the world in terms of a new theory and new concepts.

MathPages: Physics
http://www.mathpages.com/home/iphysics.htm
Collection of essays, not always orthodox, but always lucid, on historical and important current issues in mathematics and physics.

Philosophical Foundations of Physics by R. Carnap
http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/carnap.htm
Positivist view of Physics, which had influenced the Copenhagen Interpretation of the Quantum mechanics (CI).

Philosophy and Foundations
http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/r/e/redingtn/www/netadv/founds.html
A collection of links, from Norman Redington at MIT.

Philosophy of Physics
http://www.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~suchii/physics.index.html
A collection of articles and notes from Soshichi Uchii, at Kyoto University.

PhysicsWeb - This is Your Philosophy
http://physicsweb.org/article/world/15/4/2
Are physicists realists? - results of a poll.

Quantum Quackery
http://www.csicop.org/si/9701/quantum-quackery.html
Skeptical overview of QM and consciousness connection.

Review of "The Emperor's New Mind", by Roger Penrose
http://www.friesian.com/penrose.htm
His exploration is so much more serious philosophically than almost anything that has been done since Einstein and Schrodinger

Robert Rosen - Understanding Life and Physics
http://www.panmere.com/rosen/
A resource site on the works of Robert Rosen, who showed that biological systems demonstrate complexities and physics beyond the strictures of Newtonian mechanics.

Science, Pseudoscience and Society
http://www.softpanorama.org/Skeptics/index.shtml
Papers by Feynman on paranormal 'sciences', Sokal Affair (use of pseudo-physics in social sciences), critique of Kuhn. Also a collection of links.

Shakespeare and Thermodynamics - Dam the Second Law!
http://www.shakespeare2ndlaw.com/
What the second law of thermodynamics is all about, and how it is constantly 'dammed' or blocked by activation energy

Space and Time: Inertial Frames
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spacetime-iframes/
On the frames of reference relative to which motion and rest are measured; by Robert DiSalle.

Symmetry in Physics
http://www.emmynoether.com/
Group of motions determines the conservation laws - the fundamental principles of physics.

The Bactra Reviews
http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/reviews/
A set of book and article reviews, not limited to physics.

The Mind of God
http://dannyreviews.com/h/The_Mind_of_God.html
A review of Paul Davies' exposition of foundational philosophical issues.

Wikipedia - EPR Paradox
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_paradox
On the experiment to show that a measurement performed on one part of a quantum system can have an instantaneous effect on the result of a measurement performed on another part.

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