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Publications Original Papers • ‘Explaining Thermodynamic-Like Behaviour in Terms of Epsilon-Ergodicity’, Philosophy of Science 78(3), 2011, 628–652, with Charlotte Werndl. • ‘Confirmation and Reduction: A Bayesian Account’, Synthese 179(2), 321-38, 2011, with Foad Dizadji-Bahmani and Stephan Hartmann. • ‘A New Approach to the Approach to Equilibrium’, forthcoming in Yemima Ben-Menahem and Meir Hemmo (eds.): Probability in Physics. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg 2011 • ‘Entropy – A Guide for the Perplexed’, in Claus Beisbart and Stephan Hartmann (eds.): Probability in Physics, Oxford University Press, 2011, 115-42, with Charlotte Werndl. • ‘Fact and Fiction in the Neuropsychology of Art’, forthcoming in Peter Goldie and Elisabeth Schellekens: The Aesthetic Mind: Philosophy and Psychology, Oxford: Oxford University Press, with Catherine Howard. • ‘Fiction in Science’, in John Woods (ed.): Fictions and Models: New Essays, Munich: Philosophia Verlag, 2010, 247-287. • ‘Who’s Afraid of Nagelian Reduction’, Erkenntnis 73, 2010, 393–412, with Foad Dizadji-Bahmani and Stephan Hartmann. • ‘Models and Fiction', Synthese 172(2), 2010, 251-268. Spanish translation: 'Los Modelos y la Ficción', forthcoming in Pablo Lorenzano (ed.): Modelos y Teorías en Biología. Buenos Aires: Prometeo. • ‘Why Typicality Does Not Explain the Approach to Equilibrium’, in Mauricio Suárez (ed.): Probabilities, Causes and Propensities in Physics. Synthese Library. Dordrecht: Springer, 2010, 77-93 • ‘Determinism and Chance from a Humean Perspective’, in Dennis Dieks, Wenceslao Gonzalez, Stephan Hartmann, Marcel Weber, Friedrich Stadler and Thomas Uebel (eds.): The Present Situation in the Philosophy of Science. Berlin and New York: Springer, 2010, 351-372, with Carl Hoefer. • ‘Fiction and Scientific Representation’, in Roman Frigg and Matthew Hunter (eds.): Beyond Mimesis and Nominalism: Representation in Art and Science, Berlin and New York: Springer, 2010, 97-138. • ‘Typicality and the Approach to Equilibrium in Boltzmannian Statistical Mechanics’, Philosophy of Science (Supplement) 76, 2009, 997–1008. • 'Probability in Boltzmannian Statistical Mechanics', in Gerhard Ernst and Andreas Hüttemann (eds.): Time, Chance and Reduction. Philosophical Aspects of Statistical Mechanics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, 92-118. • ‘The Philosophy of Simulation: Hot New Issues or Same Old Stew?’, Synthese 169(3), 2009, 593–613, with Julian Reiss. • 'Chance in Boltzmannian Statistical Mechanics', Philosophy of Science (Supplement) 75, 2008, 670–681. • ‘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 • ‘Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Structural Realism But Were Afraid to Ask', European Journal for Philosophy of Science 1, 2011, 227–276, with Ioannis Votsis. • ‘The Ergodic Hierarchy’ (Spring 2011 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = < http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ergodic-hierarchy/>, with Joseph Berkovitz and Fred Kronz. • ‘A Field Guide to Recent Work on the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics’, in Dean Rickles (ed.): The Ashgate Companion to Contemporary Philosophy of Physics. London: Ashgate, 2008, 99-196.
• ‘Models
in Science’,
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(Spring 2006 Edition),
Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu Encyclopaedia Entries • ‘Models in Physics', Routledge Encyclopaedia of Philosophy (web version) [link to the article]. • ‘GRW Theory’, in: Daniel Greenberger, Brigitte Falkenburg, Klaus Hentschel and Friedel Weinert (eds.): Compendium of Quantum Physics: Concepts, Experiments, History and Philosophy. Springer, 266-270. • ‘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), British Journal of Aesthetics 48, 2008, 467 - 469. • Stathis Psillos and Martin Curd (eds.): The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science, (London: Routledge 2008), Metascience 18, 2009, 139–142. • 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: Journals and Books • Beyond Mimesis and Nominalism: Representation in Art and Science, Berlin and New York: Springer, with Matthew Hunter. (For book cover click here.) • Models and Simulations 2, special issue of Synthese (Vol. 180, No. 1), 2011, with Stephan Hartmann and Cyrille Imbert. • Models and Simulations 1, special issue of Synthese (Vol. 169, No. 3), 2009, with Stephan Hartmann and Cyrille Imbert. • Probability in Quantum Mechanics, special issue of Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Vol. 38, No. 2), 2007, with Stephan Hartmann. • Scientific Representation, special issue of Theoria (Vol. 21/1, No. 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. Papers In Other Languages • 'Determinism and Chance from a Humean Perspective', forthcoming in Spanish translation in Horacio Abeledo, Hernán Miguel y Jorge Paruelo (eds.): Contrafácticos, Causación y Explicación. Buenos Aires: Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento University Press, with Carl Hoefer. [Extended version of its English language namesake.] • 'What Is Statistical Mechanics?', forthcoming in French translation in Sozig Le Bihan (ed.): Philosophie de la Physique, Editions Syllepse 2010 (to download the figures click here). • 'Los Modelos y la Ficción', forthcoming in Pablo Lorenzano (ed.): Modelos y Teorías en Biología. Buenos Aires: Prometeo. [Translation of 'Models and Fiction']
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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