Various publications:




"The relativity of motion and the method of mathematical physics." In The Question of Evidence: Essays in Honour of George Smith. C. Smeenk and M. Stan, editors. (In press.)

Carnap, Einstein, and the epistemological foundations of space-time geometry." In Logical Empiricism and the Physical Sciences: From Philosophy of Nature to Philosophy of Physics. S. Lutz and A. Tuboly, editors. New York: Routledge, 2021.

"Absolute space and Newton's theory of relativity." Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j/shpsb.2020

"Space-time: Inertial frames." The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Originally published 2002; extensively revised, 2020.


Henri Poincaré, Philosopher of Science: Problems and Perspectives. Western Ontario Series in the Philosophy of Science, volume 81. M
 DePaz and R. DiSalle, editors. New York: Springer, 2014.

“Poincaré on the relativity of space and the construction of space-time.” In DePaz, M., and DiSalle, R. (eds.) Henri Poincaré, Philosopher of Science: Problems and Perspectives.

“Conventionalism.” In The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Science, 2nd edition, S. Psillos and M. Curd, eds. London: Routledge, 2014.

“The transcendental method from Newton to Kant.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Part A 44 (2013): 448-456.

Analysis and Interpretation in the Exact Sciences. Western Ontario Series in the Philosophy of Science, volume 78. Edited by Mélanie Frappier, Derek Brown, and Robert DiSalle. New York: Springer, 2012.

“Analysis and interpretation in the philosophy of modern physics.” In M. Frappier, D. Brown, and R. DiSalle, eds. Analysis and Interpretation in the Exact Sciences.

“Synthesis, the Synthetic A Priori, and the Origins of Modern Space-time Theory.” In Discourse on A New Method: Re-Invigorating the Marriage of History and Philosophy of Science. M. Dickson and M. Domski. Chicago: Open Court Press, 2011.

“Pitholes in space-time: On the structure and ontology of space-time theories.” In Vintage Enthusiasms: Papers in Honour of John L. Bell.
Western Ontario Series in the Philosophy of Science, v. 75.  P. Clark, D. DeVidi, and M. Hallett, eds. . New York: Springer, 2011.

Capire lo spazio-tempo: Lo sviluppo filosofico della fisica da Newton a Einstein. A. Migliori, tr. Torino: Bollati Borighieri, 2009.


Understanding Spacetime: The Philosophical Development of Physics from Newton to Einstein. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.


Old "Classics" (Be the first to read them!)



"Spacetime Theory as Physical Geometry," Erkenntnis, vol. 42, 1995 , pp. 317-337.

"On Dynamics, Indiscernibility, and Spacetime Ontology." British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, vol. 45, 1994, pp. 265-287.