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Acuña, Pablo (2013) Artificial Examples of Empirical Equivalence. [Preprint]

Avner, Ash and Justin, Clarke-Doane (2023) Intuition and Observation. [Preprint]

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Bacelar Valente, Mario (2017) Conventionality in Einstein's practical geometry. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 32 (2). pp. 177-190. ISSN 2171-679X

Baker, David John and Halvorson, Hans and Swanson, Noel (2013) The Conventionality of Parastatistics. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Barker, Matthew J. and Velasco, Joel D. (2012) Deep Conventionalism about Evolutionary Groups. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Barker, Matthew J. and Slater, Matthew H. (2020) Classificatory norms in scientific practice: the unobjective but rational *chemical element*. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Barrett, Jeffrey A. (2014) On the Coevolution of Theory and Language and the Nature of Successful Inquiry. Erkenntnis, 79 (4). pp. 821-834.

Barrett, Jeffrey A. (2015) On the Evolution of Truth. [Preprint]

Brendel, Mátyás (2006) Carnap and the Rationality of Theory Choice. [Preprint]

Browning, Heather and Veit, Walter (2021) Does Utilitarianism Need a Rethink? [Preprint]

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Catton, Philip (2001) The Most Measured Understanding of Spacetime. [Preprint]

Caulton, Adam (2015) The Role of Symmetry in the Interpretation of Physical Theories. [Preprint]

Clarke-Doane, Justin (2022) Mathemtics and Metaphilosophy. Cambridge Elements.

Csatári, Ferenc (2011) Some Remarks on the Physicalist Account of Mathematics. [Preprint]

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Dawid, Richard (2016) String Dualities and Empirical Equivalence. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. ISSN 1355-2198

Dewar, Neil (2022) Equivalence and Convention. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Dieks, Dennis (2009) The Adolescence of Relativity: Einstein, Minkowski, and the Philosophy of Space and Time. [Preprint]

Dieks, Dennis (2009) Reichenbach and the Conventionality of Distant Simultaneity in Perspective. [Preprint]

Dürr, Patrick and Read, James (2023) Reconsidering Conventionalism: An Invitation to a Sophisticated Philosophy for Modern (Space-)Times. [Preprint]

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E. Szabó, László (2003) Formal Systems as Physical Objects: A Physicalist Account of Mathematical Truth. [Preprint]

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Farr, Matt (2021) Conventionalism about time direction. [Preprint]

Farr, Matt (2021) What's so special about initial conditions? Understanding the past hypothesis in directionless time. [Preprint]

Frigg, Roman and Nguyen, James (2017) Models and Representation. [Preprint]

Frisch, Mathias (2022) The Babylonian conception and conventionalism about laws in physics. [Preprint]

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Giovanelli, Marco (2014) "But One Must not Legalize the Mentioned Sin". Phenomenological vs. Dynamical Treatment of Rods and Clocks in Einstein's Thought. [Preprint]

Giovanelli, Marco (2014) "But One Must not Legalize the Mentioned Sin". Phenomenological vs. Dynamical Treatment of Rods and Clocks in Einstein's Thought. Studies In History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies In History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 48. pp. 20-44. ISSN 13552198

Giovanelli, Marco (2013) Collision of Traditions. The Emergence of Logical Empiricism Between the Riemannian and Helmholtzian Traditions. [Preprint]

Giovanelli, Marco (2012) Erich Kretschmann as a Proto-Logical-Empiricist: Adventures and Misadventures of the Point-Coincidence Argument. Studies In History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies In History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. ISSN 13552198

Giovanelli, Marco (2012) Talking at Cross-Purposes. How Einstein and Logical Empiricists never Agreed on what they were Disagreeing about. [Preprint]

Giovanelli, Marco (2016) ‘. . . But I Still Can’t Get Rid of a Sense of Artificiality’: The Reichenbach-Einstein Debate on the Geometrization of the Electromagnetic Field. Studies In History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies In History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 54. pp. 35-51. ISSN 13552198

Giovanelli, Marco (2023) Coordination, Geometrization, Unification. An Overview of the Reichenbach-Einstein Debate on the Unified Field Theory Program. Philosophers and Einstein Relativity The Earl Philosophical Reception of the Relativistic Revolution. pp. 147-192.

Giovanelli, Marco (2019) ‘Geometrization of Physics’ vs. ‘Physicalization of Geometry.’ The Untranslated Appendix to Reichenbach’s Philosophie der Raum-Zeit-Lehre. [Preprint]

Giovanelli, Marco (2022) Geometrization vs. Unification. The Reichenbach-Einstein Quarrel about the Fernparallelismus Field Theory. Synthese, 213. ISSN 1573-0964

Giovanelli, Marco (2017) The Sensation and the Stimulus: Psychophysics and the Prehistory of the Marburg School. Perspectives on Science, 25.

Gomori, Marton (2020) On the Very Idea of Distant Correlations. [Preprint]

Grünbaum, Adolf (2001) David Malament and the Conventionality of Simultaneity: A Reply. [Preprint]

Gu, Zhiwei (2021) The time-lag argument and simultaneity. Synthese.

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Hardcastle, Gary (2006) Quine’s 1934 “Lectures on Carnap”. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Helbig, Phillip (2021) Sonne und Mond, or, the good, the bad, and the ugly: comments on the debate between MOND and ΛCDM. The Observatory, 140 (1279). pp. 225-247. ISSN 0029-7704

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Ivanova, Milena (2016) Poincaré’s Aesthetics of Science. [Preprint]

Ivanova, Milena and Farr, Matt (2015) Conventional Principles in Science: On the Foundations and Development of the Relativized A Priori. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 52 (B). pp. 111-113.

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Lutz, Sebastian (2011) Artificial Language Philosophy of Science. European Journal for Philosophy of Science. ISSN 1879-4912

Lutz, Sebastian (2014) Carnap on Empirical Significance. [Preprint]

Lutz, Sebastian (2014) Choosing the Analytic Component of Theories. [Preprint]

Lutz, Sebastian (2013) Criteria of Empirical Significance: A Success Story. [Preprint]

Lutz, Sebastian Criteria of Empirical Significance: Foundations, Relations, Applications. Zeno Institute of Philosophy, Utrecht University.

Lutz, Sebastian (2013) The Semantics of Scientific Theories. [Preprint]

Lutz, Sebastian and Hartmann, Stephan (2009) Conventional and Objective Invariance: Debs and Redhead on Symmetry. [Preprint]

Lutz, Sebastian (2017) Armchair Philosophy Naturalized. [Preprint]

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Magal, Oran (2013) Is logic just last in line for the execution? Logic, holism, and the constitutive a priori. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Maxwell, Nicholas (2015) What’s Wrong With Aim-Oriented Empiricism? Acta Baltica Historiae et Philosophiae Scientiarum, 3 (2). pp. 5-31. ISSN 2228-2009

Merritt, David (2017) Cosmology and Convention. Studies In History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies In History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 57. pp. 41-52. ISSN 13552198

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Nasmith, Benjamin B (2011) Presentism in a World Denied Instantaneous Signals. [Preprint]

Norton, John D. (2004) How Hume and Mach Helped Einstein Find Special Relativity. [Preprint]

Norton, John D. (2003) Must Evidence Underdetermine Theory? [Preprint]

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O'Connor, Cailin (2020) Measuring Conventionality. Australasian Journal of Philosophy.

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Parker, Matthew W. (2008) Philosophical Method and Galileo's Paradox of Infinity. [Preprint]

Picazo Jaque, Claudia (2017) Utterance content, speaker’s intentions and linguistic liability. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 32 (3). pp. 329-345. ISSN 2171-679X

Pitts, J. Brian (2016) Einstein's Physical Strategy, Energy Conservation, Symmetries, and Stability: "but Grossmann & I believed that the conservation laws were not satisfied". [Preprint]

Pitts, J. Brian (2011) Permanent Underdetermination from Approximate Empirical Equivalence in Field Theory: Massless and Massive Scalar Gravity, Neutrino, Electromagnetic, Yang-Mills and Gravitational Theories. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science , 62. pp. 259-299.

Pitts, J. Brian (2015) Space-time Philosophy Reconstructed via Massive Nordström Scalar Gravities? Laws vs. Geometry, Conventionality, and Underdetermination. [Preprint]

Pitts, J. Brian (2007) Why the Big Bang Singularity does not Help the Kalam Cosmological Argument for Theism. [Preprint]

Pitts, J. Brian (2019) Cosmological Constant Λ vs. Massive Gravitons: A Case Study in General Relativity Exceptionalism vs. Particle Physics Egalitarianism. [Preprint]

Pitts, J. Brian (2016) Historical and Philosophical Insights about General Relativity and Space-time from Particle Physics. New Directions in Logic and the Philosophy of Science: SILFS volume 3. pp. 291-301.

Pitts, J. Brian (2017) Kant, Schlick and Friedman on Space, Time and Gravity in Light of Three Lessons from Particle Physics. Erkenntnis.

Pitts, J. Brian (2017) Space-time Constructivism vs. Modal Provincialism: Or, How Special Relativistic Theories Needn't Show Minkowski Chronogeometry. [Preprint]

Pitts, J. Brian (2022) What Represents Space-time? And What Follows for Substantivalism vs. Relationalism and Gravitational Energy? [Preprint]

Psillos, Stathis (2014) Conventions and Relations in Poincaré’s Philosophy of Science. [Preprint]

Pérez-Navarro, Eduardo (2021) No matter who: What makes one a relativist? THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 36 (2). pp. 231-242. ISSN 2171-679X

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Rynasiewicz, Robert (2001) Reichenbach's Epsilon Definition of Simultaneity in Historical and Philosophical Perspective. UNSPECIFIED. (In Press)

Rynasiewicz, Robert (2012) Simultaneity, Convention, and Gauge Freedom. [Preprint]

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Samaroo, Ryan (2015) Friedman's Thesis. [Preprint]

Soler, Léna (2009) Tacit Aspects of Experimental Practices: What Epistemological Consequences? In: UNSPECIFIED.

Stone, Abraham (2006) On the Completion and Generalization of Intuitive Space in Der Raum: Husserlian and Drieschian Elements. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Surovell, Jonathan (2013) Carnap's Response to the Charge that Verificationism is Self-Undermining. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Szabo, Laszlo E. (2010) Empirical Foundation of Space and Time. [Preprint]

Szabo, Laszlo E. (2010) Lorentzian theories vs. Einsteinian special relativity - a logico-empiricist reconstruction. [Preprint]

Szabo, Laszlo E. (2010) Lorentzian theories vs. Einsteinian special relativity - a logico-empiricist reconstruction.

Szabó, László E. (2019) Intrinsic, extrinsic, and the constitutive a priori. Foundations of Physics. ISSN 1572-9516

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Tasdan, Ufuk I and Thebault, Karim P Y (2023) Spacetime Conventionalism Revisited. [Preprint]

Thebault, Karim P Y (2021) On Mach On Time. [Preprint]

Tsou, Jonathan Y. (2020) Social Construction, HPC kinds, and the Projectability of Human Categories. [Preprint]

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Walter, Scott A. (2018) Figures of light in the early history of relativity (1905-1914). Beyond Einstein: Perspectives on Geometry, Gravitation, and Cosmology in the Twentieth Century (Einstein Studies 14). pp. 3-50.

Walter, Scott A. (2014) Poincaré on clocks in motion. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 47 (1). pp. 131-141. ISSN 1355-2198

Weatherall, James Owen (2015) Are Newtonian Gravitation and Geometrized Newtonian Gravitation Theoretically Equivalent? [Preprint]

Weatherall, James Owen (2014) Are Newtonian Gravitation and Geometrized Newtonian Gravitation Theoretically Equivalent? [Preprint]

Weatherall, James Owen and Manchak, John Byron (2013) The Geometry of Conventionality. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Weatherall, James Owen and Manchak, John Byron (2013) The Geometry of Conventionality. [Preprint]

Wilson, Rob (2022) Kinmaking, Progeneration, and Ethnography. [Preprint]

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