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Philosophy of Science

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Fluid Dynamics

Featured talk: "Fishbones, Wheels, Eyes, and Butterflies: A unified account of physical & mathematical modeling."
  • MidWest PhilMath Workshop, Notre Dame, 2016
"What Equations Don't Say" workshop, with Erik Curiel, Susan Sterrett, Colin McLarty.
  • Slides, draft, video
“Signs, Toy Models, and the A Priori,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science.
  • Official version; Preprint

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Gravity & Relativity

"Expanding Theory Testing in General Relativity: LIGO and parametrized theories," Studies B vol. 69, 2020.
  • Open access link
Earlier paper on special relativity: “Reconsidering Experiments,” HOPOS. 
  • Official version; arxiv.org

Black Hole Initiative:
  • Talks Spring 2021
  • Inaugural Conference session

Follow my LIGO-related project on ResearchGate.

History

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History of philosophy of science

Scientific change, theory development, methods in science.

“Helmholtz’s Physiological Psychology,” Philosophy of Mind in the Nineteenth Century.
  • PhilSciArchive; Philpapers

“Kuhn, Pedagogy, and Practice: A Local Reading of Structure,” in The Kuhnian Image of Science.
  • Philpapers

“Methodology of the Sciences,” in The Oxford Handbook of German Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century.
  • Philpapers; PhilSciArchive
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History, philosophy, and mathematics

Mathematical methods, axiomatics, mathematical physics.

“Hilbert’s Objectivity,” Historia Mathematica.
  • Preprint; Official version

“Russell’s Method of Analysis and the Axioms of Mathematics,” in Innovations in the History of Analytical Philosophy.
  • Official link; Philpapers

Joshua Eisenthal and L. Patton. "Epistemology of Geometry," Oxford Bibliographies.
  • Link.
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Kantian and Neo-Kantian philosophy

The Marburg School, Cassirer & human sciences.

“Cassirer and Steinthal on Expression and the Science of Language,” Cassirer Studies.
  • Philpapers

“Kantian Essentialism in the Metaphysical Foundations,” The Monist. 
  • Official version; Philpapers
 
“The Paradox of Infinite Given Magnitude: Why Kantian Epistemology Needs Metaphysical Space,” Kant-Studien.
  • Preprint; Official version
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