Publications

"Some Reflections on the Structure of Cosmological Knowledge." Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 71 (2020): 220-231.
"Q.E.D., QED," with Adam Koberinski. Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 71 (2020): 1-13.
"Gaining Access to the Early Universe," in Why Trust Theory? Epistemology of Fundamental Physics, edited by R. Dawid, K. Thebault, and R. Darshati. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2019), pp. 315-338.
"Philosophical Aspects of Cosmology," in Oxford Handbook of the History of Modern Cosmology, edited by H. Kragh and M.S. Longair. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2019), pp. 497-530.
"Inflation, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy," with Malcolm Longair, in Oxford Handbook of the History of Modern Cosmology, edited by H. Kragh and M.S. Longair. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2019), pp. 426- 464.
"The Cosmos As Involving Local Laws and Inconceivable without Them", with Yann Benétreau-Dupin. The Monist (2017) 100 (3): 357-372.
"Inflation and the Origins of Structure," in Beyond Einstein: Perspectives on Geometry, Gravitation, and Cosmology in the Twentieth Century, edited by D. Rowe, T. Sauer, and S. Walter. Einstein Studies (Volume 14), Boston: Birkhauser. (2018)
"Testing Inflation", in Philosophy of Cosmology, edited by K. Chamcham, J.D. Barrow, J. Silk and S. Saunders, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2017)
"The Cosmos As Involving Local Laws and Inconceivable without Them", with Yann Benétreau-Dupin. The Monist 100 (2017): 357-372.
"Philosophy of the Physical Sciences," with Carl Hoefer. In Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Science, ed. by Paul Humphreys. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2016).
"Philosophical Geometers and Geometrical Philosophers," in The Language of Nature: Reassessing the Mathematization of Natural Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century, edited by B. Hill, G. Gorham, and E. Slowik. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (2016), pp. 308-338.
"Predictability crisis in early universe cosmology." Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 46 (2014): 122-133.
"Newton's Principia," with Eric Schliesser. In Oxford Handbook for the History of Physics, edited by J. Buchwald and R. Fox. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2014), pp. 109-165.
"Einstein's Role in the Creation of Relativistic Cosmology." In The Cambridge Companion to Einstein, edited by M. Janssen and C. Lehner. Cambridge University Press (2014), pp. 228-269.
"Time in Cosmology," in The Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Time, ed. by A. Bardon and H. Dyke. Oxford: Blackwell (2013), pp. 201-219.
"Philosophy of Cosmology," in Oxford Handbook for the Philosophy of Physics, edited by R. Batterman. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2013), pp. 607-652.
"Cotes' Queries: Newton's Empricism and Conceptions of Matter," with Zvi Biener. In Interpreting Newton, edited by E. Schliesser and A. Janiak. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2012), pp. 105-137.
"Time Travel and Time Machines," with Christian Wüthrich. In The Oxford Handbook on Time, edited by C. Callender. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2011), pp. 577-630.
"Do the Laws of Physics Forbid the Operation of Time Machines?," with John Earman and Christian Wuthrich. Synthese (2009) 169: 91-124.
"Mie's Theories of Matter and Gravitation," with C. Martin, in The Genesis of General Relativity, Boston: Springer (2007).
The Genesis of General Relativity, associate editor, with J. Renn, M. Schemmel, and C. Martin. Vol. I, Theories of Gravitation in the Twilight of Classical Physics; Vol. II, Alternative Approaches to General Relativity. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science Vol. 250. Boston: Springer (2007).
"The Elusive Higgs Mechanism." Philosophy of Science 73 (2006): 487-499.
"False Vacuum: Early Universe Cosmology and the Development of Inflation," in The Universe of General Relativity, edited by J. Eisenstaedt and A. J. Kox, Einstein Studies Vol. 11, Boston: Birkhauser (2005).
"Pendulums, Pedagogy, and Matter: Lessons from the editing of Newton's Principia," with Zvi Biener, Science and Education 13 (2004): 309-320. Reprinted in Matthews, M., Gauld, C., and Stinner A. (eds.), The Pendulum: Scientific, Historical, Philosophical, and Educational Perspectives (2005), Dordrecht: Springer.

Reviews

Essay Review of Kant's Construction of Nature, by Michael Friedman. Philosophy of Science 82 (2015): 718-726.
Review of Newton and the Origin of Civilization, by Jed Buchwald and Mordechai Feingold. HOPOS 4 (2014): 383-387.
Review of Geometric Possibility, by Gordon Belot. Philosophia Mathematica 21 (2013): 416-421.
"Interpreting Gauge Theories," review of Gauging What's Real by Richard Healey. Metascience 18 (2009): 11-22.
"Tools without Theories," review of Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics, by D. Kaiser. Metascience 15 (2006): 333-337.
Review of Reading Natural Philosophy, edited by D. Malament, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 36 (2005): 194-199.
Review of The Future of Spacetime, Stephen Hawking et al., Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 34 (2003): 680-683.
Essay review of The Cambridge Companion to Newton, with Zvi Biener. Notre Dame Philosophical Review 2003.01.04.

Forthcoming

Oxford Handbook of Newton, co-editor with Eric Schliesser. (Oxford Handbooks Online), print volume expected to appear in 2021.
Time and Again: On the Logical, Metaphysical, and Physical Possibility of Time Travel, with J. B. Manchak and C. Wüthrich. Oxford University Press (Oxford, UK).
The Aim and Structure of Cosmological Theory, with Jim Weatherall. Oxford University Press (Oxford, UK)
Turning Data into Evidence: Festschrift for George E. Smith (working title), edited volume, co-edited with Eric Schliesser and Marius Stan. Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, Springer.
"Cosmology and Physical Astronomy in Newton's General Scholium," in Newton's General Scholium, edited by S. Snobelen, S. Ducheyne, and S. Mandelbrote.
Oxford Handbook of Newton, co-editor with Eric Schliesser. Under contract with Oxford University Press.
"Newton on Constrained Motion," with George Smith.
"Eliminative Reasoning in Cosmology."

Thesis and other contributions

"Philosophy of Cosmology," with George Ellis. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2017)
"Cosmology," entry in the Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Science, second edition, edited by S. Psillos and M. Curd. New York: Routledge, 2013, pp. 609-620.
Guest editor, with Wayne Myrvold: "Philosophy of Quantum Field Theory," special issue of Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 42 (2011). Editorial introduction, pp. 77-80.
"The Logic of Cosmology Revisited," winner of the Milton K. Munitz prize (awarded in 2008).
Entry on Dennis Sciama, for New Dictionary of Scientific Biography, ed. by N. Koertge et al. New York: Scribner's (December 2007).
"Approaching the Absolute Zero of Time: Theory Development in Early Universe Cosmology," Doctoral thesis. University of Pittsburgh, 2003.