Recent Publications


Capere lo spazio-tempo: Lo sviluppo filosofica 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.

“Conventionalism and Modern Physics.” In Intuition and the Axiomatic Method, ed. E. Carson and B. Falkenburg. (Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, v. 70.) Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2006.

 “Kant, Helmholtz, and the Meaning of Empiricism.” In The Kantian Legacy in Nineteenth-Century Science, ed. M. Friedman and A. Nordmann. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006.

“Mathematical structure, 'world structure,' and the philosophical turning-point in modern physics.” In Interactions: Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy, 1860-1930 . Hendricks, Jorgensen, et al., eds. (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, v. 248).  Springer, 2006.

"Newton's Philosophical Analysis of Space and Time," in The Cambridge Companion to Newton. I.B. Cohen and G. Smith, eds. Cambridge University Press, 2002.

"Conventionalism and Modern Physics: A Re-Assessment." Noûs: 36:2 (2002): 169-200.

"Reconsidering Kant, Friedman, Logical Positivism, and the Exact Sciences." Philosophy of Science 69:2 (2002): 191-211.

"Reconsidering Ernst Mach on Space, Time, and Motion." In Reading Natural Philosophy: Essays in the History and Philosophy of Science and Mathematics to Honor Howard Stein on His 70th Birthday. D. Malament, ed. Chicago: Open Court Press, 2002.

 "Space and Time: Inertial Frames."   In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (online).

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.

"Conventionalism and the origins of the inertial frame concept." In PSA 1990: Proceedings of the 1990 Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association. A. Fine, M. Forbes, and L. Wessels, eds. East Lansing: The Philosophy of Science Association.