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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]

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]

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

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

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

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]

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 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]

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]

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

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

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]

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

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

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]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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]

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

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

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]

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 (2017) Armchair Philosophy Naturalized. [Preprint]

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

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

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]

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 (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 (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]

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

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

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

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

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

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]

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]

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]

Conference or Workshop Item

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Published Article or Volume

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

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.

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

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

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).

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

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 (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 (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. (2013) Operational understanding of the covariance of classical electrodynamics. Physics Essays, 26 (3). pp. 361-370.

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.

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.

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

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 (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.

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

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

Open Access Book

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

Other

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

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

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

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

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

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