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Preprint

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

Arslan, Aran and Zenker, Frank (2024) Cohen’s Convention, the Seriousness of Errors, and the Body of Knowledge in Behavioral Science. [Preprint]

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

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]

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

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

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

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

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

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]

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

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

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

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

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

Holder, Justin (2022) Poincaré’s Radical Ontology. [Preprint]

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

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 (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]

Miller, Ryan (2024) Looking for Levels. [Preprint]

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]

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

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 (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 (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]

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

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

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]

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. [Preprint]

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

Conference or Workshop Item

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Published Article or Volume

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

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

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

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

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 (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 (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 (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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 (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 (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.

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

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

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

Witteveen, Joeri (2024) Golden spikes, scientific types, and the ma(r)king of deep time. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 106. pp. 70-85.

Other

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

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

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