July 2017: A number of updates coming soon…

 

 

Forthcoming papers + work in progress

 

 

Fiction and Scientific Modelling

 

 

Against Bracketing and Complacency: Metaphysics and the Methodology of Science

 

 

Holism and Nonsupervenience in Quantum Mechanics

 

 

Realism about Missing Systems

 

 

Book project on scientific representation

 

 

 

 

 

Some recent publications

 

 

Modelling without Mathematics Philosophy of Science 79: 761–72, 2012. 

 

 

Structuralism about Scientific Representation in Scientific Structuralism, edited by

Peter Bokulich and Alisa Bokulich, 2011.

 

 

Review of Bas van Fraassen's Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective

Australasian Journal of Philosophy 89: 567–70, 2011.

 

 

Missing Systems and the Face Value Practice Synthese 172: 283–99, 2010.    

 

 

Models and the Semantic View Philosophy of Science 73: 524–35, 2006.

 

 

Idealization and Abstraction: A Framework in Correcting the Model: Idealization and

Abstraction in the Sciences, edited by Martin Jones and Nancy Cartwright, 2005.

 

 

 

(Please feel free to email me for the published version if it isn't posted here.)

 

 

 

 

 

Unpublished longer versions 

 

 

Review of Bas van Fraassen's Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective, 2011.

 

 

Missing Systems and the Face Value Practice on the PhilSci Archive, 2007.

 

 

Models and the Semantic View on the PhilSci Archive, 1997.

 

 

 

 

 

Coming soon

 

 

Brief descriptions of forthcoming papers and works in progress

 

 

Brief descriptions of the published papers listed above, and the unpublished longer versions

 

 

A list of some older papers, including papers in the philosophy of quantum mechanics

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Updated July 2013