Complete List of Publications

Academic Work:

A.        Published Books 

1) Karl Popper: Professional Philosopher and Public Intellectual. (New York/Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer 2022) 

2) The Demons of Science: What they can and Cannot Tell us about our World. (New York/Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer 2016) 

3) The March of Time: Evolving Conceptions of Time in the Light of Scientific Discoveries. (New York/Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer 2013) 

4) Copernicus, Darwin & Freud: Revolutions in the History and Philosophy of Science (Wiley Blackwell 2009) 

5) The Scientist as Philosopher: Philosophical Consequences of Great Scientific Discoveries. (New York/Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer 2004) 

6) Traditionen, Diskurse, Argumente. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte und Struktur philosophischer Argumentationen über Sprache, Erkenntnis und Wissenschaft und ihr systematischer Zusammenhang. (Bern/Frankfurt/New York: Peter Lang 1985) 

B.       Edited Books 

1) Evolution 2.0: Implications of Darwinism in Philosophy and the Natural and Social Sciences, edited by Martin Brinkworth & Friedel Weinert. The Frontiers Collection (Heidelberg/Berlin/New York: Springer 2011)

2) Compendium of Quantum Physics: Concepts, Experiments, History and Philosophy, edited by D. Greenberger/K. Hentschel, F. Weinert (Heidelberg, Berlin, New York: Springer 2009)

3) Laws of Nature: Essays on the Philosophical, Scientific and Historical Dimensions.  Edited with an Introduction by Friedel Weinert. (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter 1995)

C.       Academic Papers 

1)  ‘Kontingente versus notwendige Wahrheiten und mögliche Welten bei Leibniz.’ Studia Leibnitiana, XII/1 (1980), pp. 125-39.

2) ‘Analysis and the Analytic.’ Akten des V. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses. Mainz (1981), pp. 186-97.

3) ‘Wittgenstein on Kant.’ Ethics. Foundations, Problems and Applications. Proceedings of the 5th International Wittgenstein Symposium. Wien (1981), pp. 418-21.

4) ‘Tradition and Argument.’ The Monist, 65/1 (1982), pp. 88-105.

5) ‘Die Arbeit der Geschichte: Ein Vergleich der Analysemodelle von Kuhn und Foucault.’ Zeitschrift für allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie, XIII/2 (1982), pp. 336-58.

6) ‘Ways of Criticizing Metaphysics: Kant and Wittgenstein.’ Kant-Studien, 74/4 (1983), pp. 412-36.

7) ‘Contra Res Sempiternas.’ The Monist, 67/3 (1984), pp. 374-94.

8) ‘Nominalismus und Gesellschaft.’ Zeitschrift für allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie, XVII/2 (1986), pp. 322-45.

9) Contributions to the Encyclopédie Philosophique, Vol. III. & IV.ed. by André Jacob. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France (1988-89).

10) ‘Introducing Events, Successful Reference and Reference-Fixing.’ Journal for the General Philosophy of Science, 22 (1991), pp. 155-67.

11) ‘Vicissitudes of Laboratory Life.’ British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 43 (1992), pp. 423-9.

12) ‘Laws of Nature: A Structural Approach.’ Philosophia Naturalis, 30/2 (1993), pp. 147-71.

13) ‘The Correspondence Principle and the Closure of Theories: Two Incompatible Aspects of Heisenberg’s Philosophy of Science.’ Erkenntnis, 40 (1994), pp. 303-23.

14) ‘Laws of Nature - Laws of Science.’ In: F. Weinert (Ed.), Laws of Nature. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter 1995, pp. 3-64.

15) ‘Wrong Theory - Right Experiment: The Significance of the  Stern-Gerlach Experiments.’ Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 26/1 (1995), pp. 75-86.

16) ‘The Duhem Quine Problem Revisited.’ International Studies  in the Philosophy of Science, 9/2 (1995), pp. 147-156.

17) ‘On Popperian Pillars: The Relationship between the Thought of Munz and Popper.’ In: M.Fairburn/B.Oliver (Eds.), The Certainty of Doubt. Tributes to Peter Munz. Wellington (NZ): Victoria University Press (1996), pp. 244-68.

18) ‘Weber’s Ideal Types as Models in the Social Sciences.’ In: A. O’Hear (Ed.), Verstehen and Humane Understanding. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement: 41. Cambridge UP (1996), pp. 73-93. 

19) ‘On the Status of Social Laws.’ Dialectica 51 (1997), pp. 225-42.

20) ‘Fundamental Physical Constants, Null Experiments and the Duhem-Quine Thesis.’ Philosophia Naturalis 35/2 (1998), pp. 225-52.

21) ‘When the Scientist turns Philosopher’. World Congress of Philosophy (Boston 1998). Revised version here.

22) ‘Habermas, Science and Modernity’. In: O’Hear, A. (Ed.) German Philosophy Since Kant. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 44, Cambridge UP (1999), pp. 329-355

23) ‘Theories, Models and Constraints.’ Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 30/2 (1999), pp. 303-333

24) 'The Construction of Atom Models: Eliminative Inductivism and its Relation to Falsificationism. Foundations of Science 5 (2000), pp. 491-531

25) 'Quantum Mechanics: The Physicist turns Philosopher',  '100 Years of Quantum Theory' (Madrid 22-25 November 2000).

26) ’The Loss of Rational Design’, in O’Hear, A. (Ed.) Philosophy, Biology and Life. Royal Institute of Philosophy Annual Lecture Series 2003-2004, Philosophy Supplement 56: Philosophy, Biology and Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2005, pp. 235-57

27) ‘Einstein as Philosopher’, in N. Sanitt (ed.) Motivating Science. The Pantaneto Press (2005), pp. 229-37

28) ’Einstein and Kant’, Philosophy 80 (2005), pp. 585-93

29)  ‘Relationism and Relativity’, in VIII. International Leibniz Congress, Einheit in der Vielfalt, eds. H. Breger/J. Herbst/S. Erdner (Hannover 2006), pp. 1138-46

30) ’Einstein and the Representation of Reality’, Facta Philosophica 8 (2006), pp. 229-52 

31) ‘Why Copernicus was not a Scientific Revolutionary’, in Central and Eastern European Review 1, 2007, pp. 1-22 (see online publications)

32) ‘A Conditional View of Causality’, in Causality and Probability in the Sciences, edited by Federica Russo and Jon Williamson. London: College Publications, Texts in Philosophy Series 5 (2007), pp. 415-37

33) ‘Einstein and the Laws of Physics’, 69th Annual Meeting of the German Physical Society (4-9 March, Berlin 2005: Einstein-Year), in: Physics and Philosophy (2007), pp. 1-27 

34) ‘Realism and Relativity’, Center for Philosophy of Science - (First Integrated History and Philosophy of Science Conference University of Pittsburgh 2007), PhilSci Archive (2007) 

35) ‘Invariance, Symmetries and Structural Realism’, PhilSci Archive (2007) 

36) ‘Minkowski Spacetime and Thermodynamics’, Preprint (2008) 

37) ‘Time and Invariance’, Conceptus 92 (2008), pp. 55-81

38) ‘Einstein, Science and Philosophy’, Philosophia Scientiae 13/1 (2009), pp. 99-133

39) ’Emergent Minds’, Teorema 28/2 (May 2009), pp. 189-99

40)  ‘Compton Experiment’, in D. Greenberger/K. Hentschel, F. Weinert (eds.): Compendium of Quantum Physics (Springer 2009), pp. 115-6

41) ’Davisson – Germer Experiment’, in D. Greenberger/K. Hentschel, F. Weinert (eds.): Compendium of Quantum Physics (Springer 2009), pp. 150-52

42) ’Franck – Hertz Experiment, in D. Greenberger/K. Hentschel, F. Weinert (eds.): Compendium of Quantum Physics (Springer 2009), pp. 241-42

43) ’Indeterminism and Determinism in Quantum Mechanics’ (with B. Falkenburg), in D. Greenberger/K. Hentschel, F. Weinert (eds.): Compendium of Quantum Physics (Springer 2009), pp. 307-11

44) ’Radioactive Decay Law’, in D. Greenberger/K. Hentschel, F. Weinert (eds.): Compendium of Quantum Physics (Springer 2009), pp. 630-2

45) ’Stern – Gerlach Experiments’, in D. Greenberger/K. Hentschel, F. Weinert (eds.): Compendium of Quantum Physics (Springer 2009), pp. 746-50

46) ‘The Modern Synthesis: Einstein and Kant’,  Forum Philosophicum 14/2 (Autumn 2009), pp.193-216

47) ‘Realism, Relativity and Representation‘, Logos Architekton 3/1 (2009), pp. 39-62

48) ’The Role of Probability Arguments in the History of Science’, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 41 (2010), pp. 95-104 

49) ‘Relativistic Thermodynamics and the Passage of Time’, in Humana.Mente 13 (2010), pp. 175-91

50) ‘Temporal Asymmetry and Relativity’, in J.A. Parker/ P. Harris/C. Steineck (Eds.): Time: Limits and Constraints (2010). Leiden/Boston: Brill (2010), pp. 109-33 (The Study of Time, Volume 13)

51) ‘Minkowski Spacetime and Thermodynamics’, in V. Petkov (Ed.), Space, Time and Spacetime. Heidelberg, Berlin, New York: Springer (2010), pp. 239-56 (Fundamental Theories of Physics Vol. 167)

52) ‘Darwinian Inferences’ (co-author Robert Nola), in Evolution 2.0: Implications of Darwinism in the Social and Natural Sciences. Edited by Martin Brinkworth & Friedel Weinert, The Frontiers Collection, Springer 2011, pp. 111-28

53) ‘The Past-Future Asymmetry’, in Origins and Future (The Study of Time XI). Edited by Raji C. Steineck and Claudia Clausius. Leiden/Boston: Brill 2013, pp. 139-66

54) ‘Lines of Descent: Kuhn and Beyond.’ Foundations of Science 19/4: (2014): pp. 331-352

55) ‘Temporal Arrows in Space-Time.’ Kairos 8 (2013), pp. 13-44, Preprint (2013)

56) ‘EPR and the Passage of Time’, in Philosophia Naturalis 50/2 (2013): pp. 171-197

57) ‘Social Mechanisms and Social Causation’, in Journal of Philosophical Economics VIII/1 (Autumn 2014)

58) ‘Tracing the Arrows of Time’, in Information and Interaction: Eddington, Wheeler and the Limits of Knowledge. Editors: I. Durham & D. Rickles. Springer: The Frontiers Collection 2017, Ebook 2016, pp. 73-101

59) ‘Hypothetical not Fictional Worlds’, Kairos XVII/1 (December 2016), pp. 110-136, Preprint (2016)

60) ‘Leibniz on Copernicanism’, in Pisano R, Fichant M, Bussotti P, Oliveira ARE (eds): The Dialogue between Sciences, Philosophy and Engineering, 1646-2016. New Historical and Epistemological Insights. Homage to Gottfried W. Leibniz 1646-1716. College Publications, London (2017), pp. 381-402

61) ‘Time-Symmetric cosmological Gold models revisited’, in International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 30 (2016), pp. 231-243

62) ‘The Role of Trust in Political Systems. A Philosophical Perspective’, in Open Political  Science 1 (2018), pp. 7-15 (see online publications)

63) ‘The Last Mystery Standing’, in The Philosophers’ Magazine 84 (October 2019), pp. 35-40 (see online publications)

64a) ‘The Discovery of Deep Time’, in Danielle Skjelver et al. eds., History of Applied Science and Technology. An Open Access Textbook: Chapter 14a (see online publications)

64b) ‘Evolution before Darwin’, in Danielle Skjelver et al. eds., History of Applied Science and Technology. An Open Access Textbook: Chapter 14b (see online publications)

64c) ‘Darwin’s Theory of Evolution’, in Danielle Skjelver et al. eds., History of Applied Science and Technology. An Open Access Textbook: Chapter 14c (see online publications)

65) ‘On the Explanation of Social and Societal Facts’,  in Shyam  Wuppuluri & Ian Stewart eds. From Electrons to Elephants and Elections: Exploring the Role of Content and Context (Springer/The Frontier Collection 2022), pp. 799-820

66a) ‘Technological Applications of the Theory of Relativity’, in Danielle Skjelver et al. eds., History of Applied Science and Technology. An Open Access Textbook:  Chapter 15a (see online publications)

66b) ‘Technological Applications of Quantum Mechanics’, in Danielle Skjelver et al. eds., History of Applied Science and Technology.  An Open Access Textbook:  Chapter 15b (see online publications)

67) 'Reichenbach's "Causal" Theory of Time: A Re-Assessment', in Axiomathes 33/1(2023)

D.       Reviews


Journalistic Publications:

E.        Newspapers/Magazines

1)    ‘A razor-sharp mind: Ockham.’ The Times Higher Education Supplement (14. 3. 1986)

2)    ‘No reason to dislike pure Kant.’ The Times Higher Education Supplement (13. 5.1988)

3)    ‘Eiffel: A man who was not afraid to aim high.’ The Evening Post (Wellington, NZ, 18. 3.1989)

4)    ‘Symbol of the Eternal Threat: Hitler.’ The Evening Post (Wellington, NZ, 15. 4. 1989)

5)    ‘A Patent Method of Protecting Invention.’ The Evening Post (Wellington, NZ, 7. 4. 1990)

6)    ‘Darwin’s Top Salesman takes Swipe at his Mentor.’ The National Business Review (NZ 11. 6.1990)

7)    ‘The Evolution Revolution.’ The Listener (NZ 24-30. 9. 1990). 


F.       Radio Journalism

Interviews, Commentaries, Reports, Features for Westdeutscher Rundfunk and Saarländischer Rundfunk. 


G.       Translations 

1)    Paul Veyne, L’Inventaire des Différences (Paris: Seuil 1976) and Vie de Trimalcion (Annales 16 1961) for S. Fischer Taschenbuchverlag (Frankfurt a./M. 1988).

2)    Jacques Legoff, Marchands au Moyen Age (Paris 1954) for S. Fischer Verlag (Frankfurt a./M. 1989).

3)    Jean Meyer, La France Moderne (Fayard 1985) for Deutsche Verlagsanstalt (Stuttgart 1990).