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Aktunc, M. Emrah (2019) Productive Theory-Ladenness in fMRI. [Preprint]

Andrews, Mel (2021) The Math is not the Territory: Navigating the Free Energy Principle. [Preprint]

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

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Baccelli, Jean (2018) Beyond the Metrological Viewpoint. [Preprint]

Baccelli, Jean (2017) Do Bets Reveal Beliefs? [Preprint]

Baccelli, Jean (2019) Moral Hazard, the Savage Framework, and State-dependent Utility. [Preprint]

Baccelli, Jean (2019) The Problem of State-Dependent Utility: A Reappraisal. [Preprint]

Baccelli, Jean and Mongin, Philippe (2016) Choice-Based Cardinal Utility. [Preprint]

Bennett, Marissa and Miller, Michael (2023) The conventionality of real valued quantities. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Benétreau-Dupin, Yann (2011) An Empiricist Criterion of Meaning. [Preprint]

Berkovitz, Joseph (2019) On de Finetti's instrumental philosophy of probability. [Preprint]

Bich, Leonardo and Frick, Ramiro (2018) Synthetic Modelling of Biological Communication: A Theoretical and Operational Framework for the Investigation of Minimal Life and Cognition. Complex Systems, 27 (3). pp. 267-287. ISSN 0891-2513

Bich, Leonardo and Green, Sara (2016) Is defining life pointless? Operational definitions at the frontiers of Biology. Synthese. ISSN 1573-0964

Bitbol, Michel (2008) Is Consciousness primary? UNSPECIFIED.

Bitbol, Michel (2001) Non-Representationalist Theories of Knowledge and Quantum Mechanics. UNSPECIFIED.

Bitbol, Michel (2007) Ontology, Matter and Emergence. UNSPECIFIED.

Bitbol, Michel (2007) Physical Relations or Functional Relations ? A non-metaphysical construal of Rovelli’s Relational Quantum Mechanics. [Preprint]

Bitbol, Michel (1998) SOME STEPS TOWARDS A TRANSCENDENTAL DEDUCTION OF QUANTUM MECHANICS. UNSPECIFIED.

Bitbol, Michel (2020) A PHENOMENOLOGICAL ONTOLOGY FOR PHYSICS: Merleau-Ponty and QBism.

Boon, Mieke (2020) The role of disciplinary perspectives in an epistemology of scientific models. [Preprint]

Butterfield, Jeremy (2020) Halvorson on Bell on ‘Subject and Object’. [Preprint]

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

Coelho Mollo, Dimitri (2019) Against Computational Perspectivalism. [Preprint]

Coelho Mollo, Dimitri (2020) Deflationary Realism: Representation and Idealisation in Cognitive Science. [Preprint]

Cuffaro, Michael (2010) The Kantian framework of complementarity. Studies In History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies In History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 41 (4). pp. 309-317.

Cuffaro, Michael E. (2023) The Measurement Problem Is a Feature, Not a Bug--Schematising the Observer and the Concept of an Open System on an Informational, or (Neo-)Bohrian, Approach. [Preprint]

Curiel, Erik (2015) On the Existence of Spacetime Structure. [Preprint]

Curiel, Erik (2016) On the Existence of Spacetime Structure. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.

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Danne, Nicholas (2020) How to Make Reflectance a Surface Property. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 70. pp. 19-27. ISSN 1355-2198

Dardashti, Radin and Dawid, Richard and Gryb, Sean and Thebault, Karim P Y (2018) On the Empirical Consequences of the AdS/CFT Duality. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Davis, Isaac (2019) A Framework for Pragmatic Reliability. [Preprint]

Dawid, Richard (2005) High Energy Physics and Constructive Empiricism. [Preprint]

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]

Dietrich, Franz and List, Christian (2015) Mentalism versus behaviourism in economics: a philosophy-of-science perspective. [Preprint]

Dinh, Phuong (Phoebe) and Danks, David (2020) Causal Pluralism in Philosophy: Empirical Challenges and Alternative Proposals. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Dorato, Mauro (2016) Bohr’s Relational Holism and the Classical-Quantum Interaction. [Preprint]

de Ronde, Christian (2021) The Power of Inconsistency in Anti-Realist Realisms about Quantum Mechanics (Or: Lessons on How to Capture and Defeat Smoky Dragons). [Preprint]

de Ronde, Christian (2016) QBism, FAPP and the Quantum Omelette. (Or, Unscrambling Ontological Problems from Epistemological Solutions in QM). [Preprint]

de Ronde, Christian (2020) Understanding Quantum Mechanics (Beyond Metaphysical Dogmatism and Naive Empiricism). [Preprint]

de Ronde, Christian and Massri, Cesar (2020) Relational Quantum Entanglement Beyond Non-Separable and Contextual Relativism. [Preprint]

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E. Szabó, László (2007) Objective probability-like things with and without objective indeterminism. [Preprint]

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Felline, Laura (2014) Review of 'Quantum Information Theory and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics', by Christopher G. Timpson. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 3 (28).

Felline, Laura (2016) It's a Matter of Principle. Scientific Explanation in Information-Theoretic Reconstructions of Quantum Theory. [Preprint]

Francken, J.C. and Slors, M. and Craver, C.F. (2022) Cognitive Ontology and the Search for Neural Mechanisms: Three Foundational Problems. [Preprint]

Frigg, Roman (2022) Models and Theories. Models and Theories.

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

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 (2020) Like Thermodynamics before Boltzmann. On the Emergence of Einstein’s Distinction between Constructive and Principle Theories. [Preprint]

Giovanelli, Marco (2020) Like Thermodynamics before Boltzmann. On the Emergence of Einstein’s Distinction between Constructive and Principle Theories. Studies In History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies In History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 71. pp. 118-157. ISSN 13552198

Giovanelli, Marco (2018) Lorentz Contraction vs. Einstein Contraction. Reichenbach and the Philosophical Reception of Miller’s Ether-Drift Experiments. Proceeding of the Fourth International Conference on the Nature and Ontology of Spacetime. pp. 125-155.

Giovanelli, Marco (2019) Nothing but Coincidences: The Point-Coincidence Argument and Einstein’s Struggle with the Meaning of Coordinates in Physics. [Preprint]

Giovanelli, Marco (2018) `Physics Is a Kind of Metaphysics': Émile Meyerson and Einstein's Late Rationalistic Realism. European Journal for the Philosophy of Science.

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

Gomori, Marton and Szabo, Laszlo E. (2011) Is the relativity principle consistent with classical electrodynamics? Towards a logico-empiricist reconstruction of a physical theory. [Preprint]

Gomori, Marton and Szabo, Laszlo E. (2009) Is the relativity principle consistent with electrodynamics? Towards a logico-empiricist reconstruction of a physical theory. [Preprint]

Gomori, Marton and Szabo, Laszlo E. (2009) Is the relativity principle consistent with electrodynamics? Towards a logico-empiricist reconstruction of a physical theory. [Preprint]

Gomori, Marton and Szabo, Laszlo E. (2013) Operational understanding of the covariance of classical electrodynamics. Physics Essays, 26 (3). pp. 361-370.

Green, Christopher D. (1992) Of Immortal Mythological Beasts: Operationism in Psychology. [Preprint]

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Hagar, Amit and Hemmo, Meir (2006) Explaining the Unobserved: Why Quantum Theory Ain't Only About Information. [Preprint]

Hartmann, Bruno (2013) Physical Determination of the Action. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Haueis, Philipp (2022) Exploratory concept formation and tool development in neuroscience. [Preprint]

Haueis, Philipp (2021) A Generalized Patchwork Approach to Scientific Concepts. [Preprint]

Hazelwood, Caleb (2021) Practice-centered pluralism and a disjunctive theory of art. British Journal of Aesthetics.

Hazelwood, Caleb (2021) The Species Category as a Scientific Kind. Synthese.

Healey, Richard (2012) Quantum Meaning. [Preprint]

Healey, Richard (2018) Pragmatist Quantum Realism. [Preprint]

Heilmann, Conrad (2014) A New Interpretation of the Representational Theory of Measurement. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Hoehn, Philipp (2017) Reflections on the information paradigm in quantum and gravitational physics. [Preprint]

Hofer-Szabó, Gábor (2022) Two concepts of noncontextuality in quantum mechanics. [Preprint]

Hricko, Jonathon (2016) How and How Not to Be Whiggish About 'Phlogiston'. In: UNSPECIFIED.

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Jalloh, Mahmoud (2024) Bridgman and the Normative Independence of Science: An Individual Physicist in the Shadow of the Bomb. [Preprint]

Jalloh, Mahmoud (2022) Scientific Polysemy, Semantic Detoxification, and Sophisticated Operationalism. UNSPECIFIED.

Johannesson, Eric (2022) On the indispensability of theoretical terms and entities. [Preprint]

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Kaiser, Marie I. and Müller, Caroline (2020) What Is an Animal Personality? [Preprint]

Kaznatcheev, Artem and Lin, Chia-Hua (2021) Measuring as a new mode of inquiry that bridges evolutionary game theory and cancer biology. [Preprint]

Kuby, Daniel and Fraser, Patrick (2021) Feyerabend on the quantum theory of measurement: A reassessment. [Preprint]

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Lavelle, Jane Suilin (2023) Growth from uncertainty: understanding the replication 'crisis' in infant psychology. [Preprint]

Linnemann, Niels (2019) Interpreting GR as a guideline for theory change. [Preprint]

Lisker, Roy (2001) Topological Paradoxes of Time Measurement. [Preprint] (Unpublished)

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 (2017) Armchair Philosophy Naturalized. [Preprint]

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Marco, Buzzoni (2009) Empirical Thought Experiments: A Trascendental-Operational View. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Michel, Bitbol (2007) ONTOLOGY, MATTER AND EMERGENCE. [Preprint]

Miller, Michael (2020) Infrared Cancellation and Measurement. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Molnár, Attila and Székely, Gergely (2013) Axiomatizing Relativistic Dynamics using Formal Thought Experiments. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Muthukrishnan, Siddharth (2023) Unpacking Black Hole Complementarity. [Preprint]

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Northcott, Robert (2015) Opinion polling and election predictions. Philosophy of Science, 82. pp. 1260-1271.

Northcott, Robert (2017) When are purely predictive models best? Disputatio. pp. 631-656.

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Oldofredi, Andrea (2019) Is Quantum Mechanics Self-Interpreting? [Preprint]

Oriti, Daniele (2022) Tightrope-walking rationality in action: Feyerabendian insights for the foundations of quantum mechanics. [Preprint]

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Patton, Lydia (2014) Hilbert's objectivity. Historia Mathematica. ISSN 03150860

Peterson, Clayton (2017) Methodological empiricism and the choice of measurement models in social sciences. [Preprint]

Pitts, J. Brian (2011) Irrelevant Conjunction and the Ratio Measure or Historical Skepticism. [Preprint]

Pitts, J. Brian (2011) Irrelevant Conjunction and the Ratio Measure or Historical Skepticism. [Preprint]

Pitts, J. Brian (2017) Equivalent Theories Redefine Hamiltonian Observables to Exhibit Change in General Relativity. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 34. 055008. ISSN 1361-6382, Print ISSN 0264-9381

Pitts, J. Brian (2018) Equivalent Theories and Changing Hamiltonian Observables in General Relativity. Foundations of Physics.

Pitts, J. Brian (2022) First-Class Constraints, Gauge Transformations, de-Ockhamization, and Triviality: Replies to Critics, Or, How (Not) to Get a Gauge Transformation from a Second-Class Primary Constraint. [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 (2019) What Are Observables in Hamiltonian Einstein-Maxwell Theory? [Preprint]

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

Pitts, James (2019) What Are Observables in Hamiltonian Einstein-Maxwell Theory? [Preprint]

Primas, Hans (1994) Endo- and exo-theories of matter. [Preprint]

Primas, Hans and Esfeld, Michael (1997) A Critical Review of Wigner's Work on the Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Theory. [Preprint]

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Rivat, Sébastien and Grinbaum, Alexei (2019) Philosophical Foundations of Effective Field Theories. [Preprint]

Roberts, Bryan W. (2022) Reversing the Arrow of Time. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 978-1-009-12332-7

Rowbottom, Darrell P. (2010) The Instrumentalist's New Clothes. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Ruyant, Quentin (2021) The Debates on Scientific Realism. Modal Empiricism: Interpreting Science Without Scientific Realism. pp. 1-12.

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Schliesser, Eric (2010) The Surprising Weberian Roots to Milton Friedman’s Methodology. [Preprint]

Shenker, Orly R. and Hemmo, Meir (2006) Von Neumann's Entropy Does Not Correspond to Thermodynamic Entropy. UNSPECIFIED.

Stuart, Michael T. (2022) Scientists are Epistemic Consequentialists about Imagination. [Preprint]

Suárez, Mauricio (2009) Fictions, Inference, and Realism. [Preprint]

Suárez, Mauricio and Cartwright, Nancy (2007) Theories: Tools versus Models. [Preprint]

Suárez, Mauricio (2010) Fictions, Inference, and Realism. [Preprint]

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.

Szabo, Mate (2009) On Field's Nominalization of Physical Theories. [Preprint]

Szabó, László E. (2003) Does special relativity theory tell us anything new about space and time? . (Unpublished)

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

Szabó, László E. and Gömöri, Márton and Gyenis, Zalán (2023) Questionable and Unquestionable in Quantum Mechanics. [Preprint]

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Tabb, Kathryn (2014) Psychiatric Progress and The Assumption of Diagnostic Discrimination. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Thebault, Karim P Y (2015) The Disunity of Philosophy of Science as a Worrying Hypothesis. [Preprint]

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Veit, Walter and Browning, Heather (2023) Neural Networks, AI, and the Goals of Modeling. [Preprint]

Verhaegh, Sander (2019) The American Reception of Logical Positivism: First Encounters (1929-1932). [Preprint]

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Weber, Marcel (2022) The Reduction of Classical Experimental Embryology to Molecular Developmental Biology: A Tale of Three Sciences. [Preprint]

Weinberger, Naftali (2022) Signal Manipulation and the Causal Analysis of Racial Discrimination. [Preprint]

Wheeler, Gregory (2016) Machine Epistemology and Big Data. [Preprint]

Woodward, James (2020) Sketch of some themes for a pragmatist philosophy of science. [Preprint]

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