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6Facing Up: Science and Its Cultural Adversaries (review)British Journal for the History of Science 37 (4): 491-492. 2004.
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6Laudatio: Professor Bas van FraassenIn Claus Beisbart & Michael Frauchiger (eds.), Scientific Theories and Philosophical Stances: Themes from van Fraassen, De Gruyter. pp. 13-20. 2024.
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6Representation and Realism: On Being a Structuralist All the Way (Up and) DownIn Claus Beisbart & Michael Frauchiger (eds.), Scientific Theories and Philosophical Stances: Themes from van Fraassen, De Gruyter. pp. 87-108. 2024.
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6Philosophy of science: key conceptsBloomsbury Academic. 2015.Discovery -- Heuristics -- Explanation -- Justification -- Observation -- Experiment -- Realism -- Anti-realism -- Independence -- Gender bias -- Summary and further readings.
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5Andrew Watson. The Quantum Quark. x + 464 pp., table, apps., bibl., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. $30 (review)Isis 97 (1): 191-192. 2006.
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4Review of André Fuhrmann: An Essay on Contraction (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 51 (3): 513-517. 2000.
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3On the withering away of physical objectsIn Elena Castellani (ed.), Interpreting Bodies, Princeton University Press. pp. 93--113. 1998.
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3The Discourse InterviewDiscourse: Learning and Teaching in Philosophical and Religious Studies 6 (1): 107-122. 2006.
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2Symmetries and Explanatory Dependencies in PhysicsIn Alexander Reutlinger & Juha Saatsi (eds.), Explanation Beyond Causation: Philosophical Perspectives on Non-Causal Explanations, Oxford University Press. pp. 185-205. 2018.Many important explanations in physics are based on ideas and assumptions about symmetries, but little has been said about the nature of such explanations. This chapter aims to fill this lacuna, arguing that various symmetry explanations can be naturally captured in the spirit of the counterfactual-dependence account of Woodward, liberalized from its causal trappings. From the perspective of this account symmetries explain by providing modal information about an explanatory dependence, by showin…Read more
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2Book Review (review)Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 40 (2): 194-195. 2009.
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1Understanding permutation symmetryIn Katherine Brading & Elena Castellani (eds.), Symmetries in Physics: Philosophical Reflections, Cambridge University Press. pp. 212--38. 2003.
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1Review of BAS VAN FRAASSEN: Quantum Mechanics: An Empiricist Approach (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 46 (3): 436-439. 1995.
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1Gerhard Schurz: Philosophy of Science—A Unified Approach: Routledge, Abingdon & New York, 2014, xix + 456 pp, $39,99, ISBN (Paperback): 978-0-415-82936-6 (review)Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 46 (1): 241-243. 2015.
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1Thinking About Science, Reflecting on Art: Bringing Aesthetics and Philosophy of Science Together (edited book)Routledge. 2017._Thinking about Science, Reflecting on Art: Bringing Aesthetics and Philosophy of Science togethe_r is the first book to systematically examine the relationship between the philosophy of science and aesthetics. With contributions from leading figures from both fields this edited collection engages with such questions as: Does representation function in the same way in science and in art? What important characteristic do scientific models share with literary fictions? What is the difference betwe…Read more
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Modality and scientific structuralismIn Otávio Bueno & Scott A. Shalkowski (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Modality, Routledge. 2018.
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Review Articles-The Phenomenological Approach to PhysicsStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 30 (2): 267-282. 1999.
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The structure of theoriesIn Martin Curd & Stathis Psillos (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science, Routledge. pp. 269--280. 2008.
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Putting some flesh on the participant in participatory realismIn Philipp Berghofer & Harald A. Wiltsche (eds.), Phenomenology and Qbism: New Approaches to Quantum Mechanics, Routledge. 2023.
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Putting a new spin on particle identityIn R. Hilborn & G. Tino (eds.), Spin Statistics Connection and Commutation Relations, . pp. 305-318. 2000.
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IntroductionIn Steven French & Juha Saatsi (eds.), Scientific Realism and the Quantum, Oxford University Press. 2020.
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A model theoretic approach to 'natural' reasoningInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science 7 (2). 1993.
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