General
Information about the course
Lecture
programme for Weeks 2-6
Lecture
programme for Weeks 7-10
Course Materials
From this page, you can access the course materials which I have produced for this course. (Click on the links below to get the handouts in PDF-format.)
General Information:
General
Information about the course
Lecture
programme for Weeks 2-6
Lecture
programme for Weeks 7-10
Essay titles:
Essays
I: Quantum Mechanics
Essays
II: Relativity Theory
Information about the seminars:
Instructions
for the Week 2 seminar (to occupy you in Week 1 as well)
Instructions
for the Week 3 seminar
Instructions
for the Week 4 seminar
Instructions
for the Week 5 seminar
Instructions
for the Week 6 seminar
Instructions
for the Week 7 seminar
Instructions
for the Week 8 seminar
Instructions
for the Week 9 seminar
Instructions
for the Week 10 seminar
Lecture summaries:
Lecture
3: "The quantum description of reality"
Lecture
4: "The postulates of QM and the Copenhagen interpretation"
Lecture
5: "The `measurement problem' and `collapse theories' of QM"
Lecture
6: "Interpretations that deny that there are determinate outcomes"
Lecture
7: "Determinism and the problem of hidden variables"
Lecture
8: "Interpretations which invoke incompleteness"
Lecture
11: "An introduction to space and time"
Lecture
12: "Arguments for the `absolutist' and `relationist' views of space"
Lecture
13: "The rise of space-time and the Special Theory of Relativity"
Lecture
15: "Gravity and the curvature of space-time"
Lecture
17: "Substantivalism vs. relationism"