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64Do Renormalization Group Explanations Conform to the Commonality Strategy?Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 48 (1): 143-150. 2017.Renormalization group explanations account for the astonishing phenomenon that microscopically very different physical systems display the same macro-behavior when undergoing phase-transitions. Among philosophers, this explanandum phenomenon is often described as the occurrence of a particular kind of multiply realized macro-behavior. In several recent publications, Robert Batterman denies that RG explanations account for this explanandum phenomenon by following the commonality strategy, i.e. by…Read more
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64What is epistemically wrong with research affected by sponsorship bias? The evidential accountEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Science 10 (2): 1-26. 2020.Biased research occurs frequently in the sciences. In this paper, I will focus on one particular kind of biased research: research that is subject to sponsorship bias. I will address the following epistemological question: what precisely is epistemically wrong with biased research of this kind? I will defend the evidential account of epistemic wrongness: that is, research affected by sponsorship bias is epistemically wrong if and only if the researchers in question make false claims about the ev…Read more
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50Metaphysics as a constraint on science: John Heil: The universe as we find it. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, 311pp, $55 HBMetascience 22 (2): 297-301. 2013.
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36Metaphysics, prescription and methodological disagreement: A comment on Mathias Frisch’s Causal reasoning in physicsMetascience 24 (3): 351-372. 2015.
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36What's Wrong with the Pragmatic-Ontic Account of Mechanistic Explanation?In Dennis Dieks, Wenceslao Gonzalo, Thomas Uebel, Stephan Hartmann & Marcel Weber (eds.), Explanation, Prediction, and Confirmation, Springer. pp. 141--152. 2011.
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32When do non-epistemic values play an epistemically illegitimate role in science? How to solve one half of the new demarcation problemStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 92 (C): 152-161. 2022.Solving the “new demarcation problem” requires a distinction between epistemically legitimate and illegitimate roles for non-epistemic values in science. This paper addresses one ‘half’ (i.e. a sub-problem) of the new demarcation problem articulated by the Gretchenfrage: What makes the role of a non-epistemic value in science epistemically illegitimate? I will argue for the Explaining Epistemic Errors (EEE) account, according to which the epistemically illegitimate role of a non-epistemic value …Read more
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32MARKUS SCHRENK The Metaphysics of Ceteris Paribus Laws (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 60 (1): 229-233. 2009.
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31Objectivity as IndependenceEpisteme 1-8. 2021.Building on Nozick's invariantism about objectivity, I propose to define scientific objectivity in terms of counterfactual independence. I will argue that such a counterfactual independence account is (a) able to overcome the decisive shortcomings of Nozick's original invariantism and (b) applicable to three paradigmatic kinds of scientific objectivity (that is, objectivity as replication, objectivity as robustness, and objectivity as Mertonian universalism).
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30Warum Atheisten den methodologischen Atheismus nicht brauchenZeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 70 (4): 550-561. 2016.
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26Natural Law and Universality in the Philosophy of BiologyEuropean Review 22 (51). 2014.Several philosophers of biology have argued for the claim that the generalizations of biology are historical and contingent.1–5 This claim divides into the following sub-claims, each of which I will contest: first, biological generalizations are restricted to a particular space-time region. I argue that biological generalizations are universal with respect to space and time. Secondly, biological generalizations are restricted to specific kinds of entities, i.e. these generalizations do not quant…Read more
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13Margaret Morrison's Reconstructing Reality (review)BJPS Review of Books 8. 2016.In her new book Reconstructing Reality (henceforth RR), Margaret Morrison’s main target is the kind of information about the world (or, more specifically, about physical and biological systems) one can extract from the ‘reconstructive methods and practices of science’ (p. 1). To address this, Morrison focuses on three central kinds of interrelated strategies for ‘recasting nature’ (p. 2) by using reconstructive methods and practices: (i) abstract mathematical explanations and understanding (Part…Read more
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6Roberts, John T. 2008. The Law-Governed Universe. New York: Oxford University Press (407 pages, Euro 66,99) (review)History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 16 (1): 390-394. 2013.
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Ludwig Maximilians Universität, MünchenFaculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Study of ReligionRegular Faculty
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Social Science |
Philosophy of Physical Science |
General Philosophy of Science |