Monograph
Crowther, K. (2016) Effective Spacetime: Understanding Emergence in Effective Field Theory and Quantum Gravity, Springer.
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Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Crowther, K. (2022) “Spacetime Emergence: Collapsing the Distinction Between Content and Context?”, in Shyam Wuppuluri and Ian Stewart (Eds.), From Electrons to Elephants and Elections: Saga of Content and Context“‘, Springer.
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Crowther, K. & De Haro, S. (2022) “Four attitudes towards singularities in the search for quantum gravity”, in Antonio Vassallo (Ed.) The Foundations of Spacetime Physics: Philosophical Perspectives, Routledge.
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Crowther, K., Linnemann, N., & Wüthrich, C. (2020) “Spacetime functionalism in general relativity and quantum gravity”, in Synthese Special Issue on Spacetime Functionalism
Crowther, K. (2020) “As Below, So Before: `Synchronic’ and `Diachronic’ Conceptions of Spacetime Emergence”, in Synthese Special Issue on Non-Standard Approaches to Emergence.
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Crowther, K., Linnemann, N., & Wüthrich, C., (2019) “What we cannot learn from analogue experiments”, in Synthese Special Issue on Reasoning in Physics.
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Crowther, K. (2019) “When do we stop digging? Conditions on a fundamental theory of physics”, in Anthony Aguirre, Brendan Foster, and Zeeya Merali (Eds.), What is ‘Fundamental’?, Springer.
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Crowther, K. (2018) “What is the point of reduction in science?”, in Erkenntnis.
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Crowther, K. (2018) “Defining a crisis: The roles of principles in the search for a theory of quantum gravity”, in Synthese Special Issue on First Principles in Science.
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Crowther, K. (2017) “Inter-theory relations in quantum gravity: Correspondence, reduction, and emergence”, in Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics.
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Crowther, K. & Linnemann, N. (2017) “Renormalizability, fundamentality and a final theory: The role of UV-completion in the search for quantum gravity”, in British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
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Crowther, K. (2015) “Decoupling emergence and reduction in physics”, in European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 5(3), 419–445.
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Crowther, K. & Rickles, D. (2014) “Introduction: principles of quantum gravity”, in Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 46, 135–141.
Crowther, K. (2013) “Emergent spacetime according to effective field theory: from top-down and bottom-up”, in Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 44(3), 321–328.
Other Papers
Crowther, K. (2019), Italian translation by Erica Onnis, “L’emergenza dello spazio-tempo nella gravità quantistica e nella cosmologia quantistica ”, in Parts, Wholes and Systems: The Concept of Emergence in Philosophy, Special Issue of Philosophy Kitchen, edited by Erica Onnis.
Book Reviews
Crowther, K. (2019) “Art, politics, and particle physics, with one eye on the past”, Review of Steven Weinberg’s `Third Thoughts’, in Metascience.
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Crowther, K. (2019) Review of Michael Silberstein, W. M. Stuckey, and Timothy McDevitt, `Beyond the Dynamical Universe: Unifying Block Universe Physics and Time as Experienced ‘ , in British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. (Open access)
Crowther, K. (2018) Review of Carl Gillett’s `Reduction and Emergence in Science and Philosophy’, in Philosophy, 93(4), 586–590.
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Edited Issues
Crowther, K., Linnemann, N., & Wüthrich, C., eds., (2021) ``Special Issue on Spacetime Functionalism“, in Synthese.
Crowther, K. & Rickles, D., eds., (2014) “Special Issue on Principles of Quantum Gravity”, in Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 46, 135–227.
PhD Thesis
Title: Appearing out of nowhere: the emergence of spacetime in quantum gravity
Supervisors: Huw Price and Dean Rickles.
Committee: Johnathan Bain, Eleanor Knox, Christian Wüthrich.
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