Papers etc

In Progress

Taking It to the Limit (slides)

Edenic Orgulity (draft)

The Mach—Einstein Principle of 1917–1918  (slides)

Einstein on the Need for Boundary Conditions: Special Mark Wilson Edition  (slides)

Papers

“Mechanical Turkeys.” Journal of Philosophical Logic  54 (2025) 197–218. 

“Unprincipled.” The Review of Symbolic Logic   17 (2024) 435–474.

“That Does Not Compute: David Lewis on Credence and Chance.” Philosophy of Science 90 (2023) 1130–1139.

“Ratbag Idealism.” In Y. Ben-Menahem (ed.), Rethinking the Concept of Law of Nature: Natural Order in the Light of Contemporary Science. Springer (2022) 1–20.

“Gravity and GRACE.” Philosophers' Imprint 22 (2022) 3: 1–15.

“Absolutely No Free Lunches!” Theoretical Computer Science 845 (2020) 159–190. 

“An Automatic Ockham's Razor for Bayesians?”  Erkenntnis 84 (2019) 1361–1367.

“Fifty Million Elvis Fans Can't be Wrong.” Noûs 52 (2018) 946–981.

“Curve-Fitting for Bayesians?” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 68 (2017) 689–702.

“Objectivity and Bias.” Mind 126 (2017) 655–695.

“Sober as a Judge.” Metascience 25 (2016) 387–392.

“Undermined.” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 94 (2016) 781–791.

“Down to Earth Underdetermination.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research XCI (2015) 456–464.

“Bayesian Orgulity.” Philosophy of Science 80 (2013) 483–503.

“Failure of Calibration is Typical.” Statistics & Probability Letters 83 (2013) 2316–2318.

“Time in Classical and Relativistic Physics.” In A. Bardon and H. Dyke (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Time. Blackwell (2013) 185–200.

“Symmetry and Equivalence.” In R. Batterman (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Physics. Oxford University Press (2013)  318–339.

“Quantum States for Primitive Ontologists: A Case Study.” European Journal for Philosophy of Science 2 (2012) 67–83. 

“Background-Independence.” General Relativity and Gravitation 43 (2011) 2865–2884.

“Transcendental Idealism among the Jersey Metaphysicians.” Philosophical Studies 150 (2010) 429–438.

“An Elementary Notion of Gauge Equivalence.” General Relativity and Gravitation 40 (2008) 199–215.

“Is Classical Electrodynamics an Inconsistent Theory?” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 37 (2007) 263–282.

“The Representation of Time and Change in Mechanics.” In J. Butterfield and J. Earman (eds.), Philosophy of Physics. North-Holland (2006) 133–227.

“Conservation Principles.” In D. Borchert (ed.), Encyclopedia of Philosophy, second edition. Macmillan (2006). Volume 2 461-464.

“Dust, Time, and Symmetry.” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 56 (2005) 255–291.

“Whose Devil? Which Details?” Philosophy of Science 72 (2005) 128–153. 

“Notes on Symmetry.” In K. Brading and E. Castellani (eds.), Symmetries in Physics: Philosophical Reflections. Cambridge University Press (2003) 393–412.

“Remarks on the Geometry of Visibles.” The Philosophical Quarterly 53 (2003) 581–586.  

“Symmetry and Gauge Freedom.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 34 (2003) 189–225.

“The Principle of Sufficient Reason.” Journal of Philosophy XCVIII (2001) 55–74.

With J. Earman, “Pre-Socratic Quantum Gravity.” In C. Callender and N. Huggett (eds.), Philosophy Meets Physics at the Planck Scale. Cambridge University Press (2001) 213–255.

“Geometry and Motion.” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 51 (2000) 561–595 (50th Anniversary Issue). Reprinted in P. Clark and K. Hawley (eds.), Philosophy of Science Today. Oxford University Press (2003), 201-235.

“Chaos and Fundamentalism.” Philosophy of Science 67 (20000) S554–S465. 

With J. Earman, “From Metaphysics to Physics.” In J. Butterfield, and C. Pagonis (eds.), From Physics to Philosophy. Cambridge University Press (1999) 166–186.

With J. Earman and L. Ruetsche, “The Hawking Information Loss Paradox: Anatomy of a Controversy.” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 50 (1999) 189–229.

“Rehabilitating Relationalism.” International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 13 (1999) 35–52.

“Understanding Electromagnetism.” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 49 (1998) 531–555.

With J. Earman, “Chaos Out of Order: Quantum Mechanics, the Correspondence Principle, and Chaos.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 28 (1997) 147–182.

“Why General Relativity Does Need an Interpretation.” Philosophy of Science 63 (1996) S80–S88.

“Determinism and Ontology.” International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 9 (1995) 85–101.

“New Work for Counterpart Theorists: Determinism.” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 46 (1995) 185–196.

Reviews

With L. Jansson, review of A. Bokulich, Reexamining the Quantum-Classical Relation: Beyond Reductionism and Pluralism, in Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 41 (2010) 81–83.

Review of L. Sklar, Theory and Truth, in British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 52 (2001) 647–650.

Review of H. Price, Times Arrow and Archimedes Point: New Directions for the Physics of Time, in Philosophical Review 107 (1998) 477–480.

Review of J. Earman, Bangs, Crunches, Whimpers, and Shrieks: Singularities and Acausalities in Relativistic Spacetimes, in Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 29 (1998) 273–275.

Review of R. Clifton (ed.), Perspectives on Quantum Reality: Non-Relativistic, Relativistic, and Field-Theoretic, in International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 11 (1997) 305–307.

Dissertation

Whatever is Never and Nowhere is Not: Space, Time, and Ontology in Classical and Quantum Gravity. University of Pittsburgh Doctoral Dissertation (1996). [pdf]