University of London
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 1985
Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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    Philosophy of Science A Personal Peek into the Future
    Metaphilosophy 44 (3): 230-240. 2013.
    In this opinion piece, the authors offer their personal and idiosyncratic views of the future of the philosophy of science, focusing on its relationship with the history of science and metaphysics, respectively. With regard to the former, they suggest that the Kantian tradition might be drawn upon both to render the history and philosophy of science more relevant to philosophy as a whole and to overcome the challenges posed by naturalism. When it comes to the latter, they suggest both that metap…Read more
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    Travelling in New Directions
    In Steven French & Juha Saatsi (eds.), Continuum Companion to the Philosophy of Science, Continuum. pp. 337. 2011.
    This chapter discusses some emerging trends, new directions, and outstanding issues in philosophy of science. The first section places contemporary philosophy of science in context by considering its relationship to analytic philosophy at large, to the history of science, and to science itself. The subsequent sections will then take a look at a selection of interesting trends emerging from current research, and some important issues calling for further work. The presentation is inevitably colour…Read more
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    Identity and individuality in classical and quantum physics
    Australasian Journal of Philosophy 67 (4). 1989.
    This Article does not have an abstract
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    Semantic perspective on idealization in quantum mechanics
    Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 63 51-74. 1998.
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    Correspondence, Invariance and Heuristics: Essays in Honour of Heinz Post (edited book)
    with H. Kamminga
    Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1993.
    This volume is presented in honour of Heinz Post, who founded a distinc tive and distinguished school of philosophy of science at Chelsea College, University of London. The 'Chelsea tradition' in philosophy of science takes the content of science seriously, as exemplified by the papers presented here. The unifying theme of this work is that of 'Correspondence, Invariance and Heuristics', after the title of a classic and seminal paper by Heinz Post, published in 1971, which is reproduced in this …Read more
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    A phenomenological solution to the measurement problem? Husserl and the foundations of quantum mechanics
    Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 33 (3): 467-491. 2002.
    The London and Bauer monograph occupies a central place in the debate concerning the quantum measurement problem. Gavroglu has previously noted the influence of Husserlian phenomenology on London's scientific work. However, he has not explored the full extent of this influence in the monograph itself. I begin this paper by outlining the important role played by the monograph in the debate. In effect, it acted as a kind of 'lens' through which the standard, or Copenhagen, 'solution' to the measur…Read more
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    Quantum sortal predicates
    Synthese 154 (3). 2007.
    Sortal predicates have been associated with a counting process, which acts as a criterion of identity for the individuals they correctly apply to. We discuss in what sense certain types of predicates suggested by quantum physics deserve the title of ‘sortal’ as well, although they do not characterize either a process of counting or a criterion of identity for the entities that fall under them. We call such predicates ‘quantum-sortal predicates’ and, instead of a process of counting, to them is a…Read more
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    The model-theoretic approach in the philosophy of science
    with Newton C. A. Costaa
    Philosophy of Science 57 (2): 248-265. 1990.
    An introduction to the model-theoretic approach in the philosophy of science is given and it is argued that this program is further enhanced by the introduction of partial structures. It is then shown that this leads to a natural and intuitive account of both "iconic" and mathematical models and of the role of the former in science itself
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    British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 46 (3): 436-439. 1995.
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    Keeping quiet on the ontology of models
    Synthese 172 (2): 231-249. 2010.
    Stein once urged us not to confuse the means of representation with that which is being represented. Yet that is precisely what philosophers of science appear to have done at the meta-level when it comes to representing the practice of science. Proponents of the so-called ‘syntactic’ view identify theories as logically closed sets of sentences or propositions and models as idealised interpretations, or ‘theoruncula, as Braithwaite called them. Adherents of the ‘semantic’ approach, on the other h…Read more
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    A one volume reference guide To The latest research in Philosophy of Science, written by an international team of leading scholars in the field.
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    Falkenburg Brigitte, Particle Metaphysics: A Critical Account of Subatomic Reality , Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg/New York (2007) pp. xvii+386
    Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 40 (2): 194-195. 2009.