Recent Publications
Henri Poincaré, Philosopher of
Science: Problems and Perspectives. Western Ontario Series in the
Philosophy of Science, volume 81. Edited by Maria DePaz, and
Robert DiSalle. 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.
“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.
Forthcoming:
"Space
and Time: Inertial Frames." Newly revised edition. In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(online).
“Newton and Kant on the relation between mathematics and
empirical science.”
“The Newtonian theory of relativity: Newton’s misunderstood pursuit of
a relativistic physics.”
“The empirical foundations of general relativity: experience,
measurement, and space-time geometry.”
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.