Publications

Original Papers

• ‘Models and Fiction', forthcoming in Synthese.

Spanish translation: 'Los Modelos y la Ficción', forthcoming in Pablo Lorenzano (ed.): Modelos y Teorías en Biología. Buenos Aires: Prometeo.

• ‘The Philosophy of Simulation: Hot New Issues or Same Old Stew?’, forthcoming in Synthese, with Julian Reiss.

• 'Probability in Boltzmannian Statistical Mechanics', forthcoming in Gerhard Ernst and Andreas Hüttemann (eds.): Time, Chance and Reduction. Philosophical Aspects of Statistical Mechanics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

'Humean Chance in Boltzmannian Statistical Mechanics', forthcoming in Philosophy of Science (Supplement).

• ‘Probability in GRW Theory’, Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 38, 2007, 371-389, with Carl Hoefer.

• ‘The Ergodic Hierarchy, Randomness and Chaos’, Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 37, 2006, 661-691, with Joseph Berkovitz and Fred Kronz.

• ‘Chaos and Randomness: An Equivalence Proof of a Generalised Version of the Shannon Entropy and the Kolmogorov-Sinai Entropy for Hamiltonian Dynamical Systems’, Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 28, 2006, 26-31.

• ‘Scientific Representation and the Semantic View of Theories’, Theoria 55, 2006, 49-65.

• ‘In What Sense Is the Kolmogorov-Sinai Entropy a Measure for Chaotic Behaviour? – Bridging the Gap Between Dynamical Systems Theory and Communication Theory’, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 55, 2004, 411-434.

• ‘Self-Organised Criticality – What It Is and What It Isn’t’, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 34, 2003, 613-632.

• ‘On the Property Structure of Realist Collapse Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics and the So-Called “Counting Anomaly”’, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 17, 2003, 43-57.

• ‘Models and Representation: Why Structures Are Not Enough’, Measurement in Physics and Economics Project Discussion Paper Series, DP MEAS 25/02, London School of Economics 2002.

Survey Articles

• ‘A Field Guide to Recent Work on the Foundations of Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics’, forthcoming in Dean Rickles (ed.): The Ashgate Companion to Contemporary Philosophy of Physics. London: Ashgate.

• ‘Models in Science’, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2006 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2006/entries/models-science/ >, with Stephan Hartmann.

Encyclopaedia Entries

Models in Physics', forthcoming in Routledge Encyclopaedia of Philosophy (web version).

GRW Theory’, forthcoming in: Daniel Greenberger, Brigitte Falkenburg, Klaus Hentschel and Friedel Weinert (eds.): Compendium of Quantum Physics: Concepts, Experiments, History and Philosophy. Springer.

• ‘Scientific Models’, in: Sahorta Sarkar and Jessica Pfeifer (eds.): The Philosophy of Science: An Encyclopedia. New York: Routledge 2006, 740-749, with Stephan Hartmann.

Discussion Notes

• ‘String Theory under Scrutiny‘, Physics World 20 (September Issue), 2007, 14-15, with Nancy Cartwright.

Book Reviews

Robin Le Poidevin: The Images of Time. An Essay on Temporal Representation, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2007, forthcoming in British Journal of Aesthetics.

Stathis Psillos and Martin Curd (eds.): The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science, London: Routledge 2008, forthcoming in Metascience.

Meinard Kuhlmann, Holger Lyre, and Andrew Wayne (eds.): Ontological Aspects of Quantum Field Theory, Singapore: World Scientific 2002, Philosophy of Science 72, 2005, 511-514. (For a longer version of the review click here.)

Mark Buchanan: Ubiquity. The Science of History ... Or Why the World Is Simpler than We Think, London: Weidenfeld and Nichols 2000, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 53, 2002, 585-591.

Peter Smith: Explaining Chaos, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1998, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 52, 2001, 201-205, with Joseph Berkovitz.

Edited Volumes

Models and Simulations, special issue of Synthese (forthcoming), with Stephan Hartmann and Cyrille Imbert.

Probability in Quantum Mechanics, special issue of Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Vol. 38), 2007, with Stephan Hartmann.

Scientific Representation, special issue of Theoria (Vol. 55), 2006, with José Díez.

Interdisciplinary Papers

'The Biomechanical Influence of Tibio-Talar Containment on Stability of the Ankle Joint', Journal of Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology and Arthroscopy 15(11), 2007, 1355-62, with Arno Frigg, Beat Hintermann, Alexey  Barg and Victor Valderrabano.

 

Unpublished Works

Re-presenting Scientific Representation, PhD thesis, University of London, England, 2003.

Empiristische Kausalitätstheorien und ihre Kritik, Lizentiatsarbeit in Philosophie (master’s thesis in philosophy), Universität Basel, Switzerland, 1999.

Integrability in Classical and Quantum Mechanical Particle Systems in a Phase Space Representation, Diplomarbeit in Theoretischer Physik (master’s thesis in theoretical physics), Universität Basel, Switzerland,1997.

 

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