Unpublished Preprints
Comments on these papers are most welcome. Please don't cite without prior permission. I have tried to compile a list of papers citing my work, even though I am not sure how complete it is.
Draft:
Raiders of the lost spacetime
Publications
(18)
Emergent spacetime and empirical (in)coherence (with Nick Huggett)
To appear in Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science. [Link to paper] [PhilSci Archive] [arXiv.org]
(17)
Time in quantum gravity (with Nick Huggett and Tiziana Vistarini)
To appear in Adrian Bardon and Heather Dyke (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Time. [Preprint] [PhilSci Archive] [arXiv.org]
(16)
The fate of presentism in modern physics
To appear in Roberto Ciuni, Kristie Miller, and Giuliano Torrengo (eds.), New Papers on the Present--Focus on Presentism, Munich: Philosophia Verlag. [Preprint] [PhilSci Archive] [arXiv.org]
(15)
A la recherche de l'espace-temps perdu (in French)
In Soazig LeBihan (ed.), Précis de philosophie de la physique, Paris: Vuibert (2013). [French version] [English version] [PhilSci Archive (English preprint)] [arXiv.org (authoritative version in both English and French)]
(14)
The structure of causal sets
Journal for General Philosophy of Science 43 (2012): 223-241. [Preprint] [PhilSci Archive] [arXiv.org] [Journal website]
(13)
Die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie als Ausgangspunkt einer Quantentheorie der Gravitation (in German)
In Michael Esfeld (ed.), Philosophie der Physik, Berlin: Suhrkamp (2012), 306-324. [Preprint (in German)]
(12)
Demarcating presentism
In Henk de Regt, Samir Okasha, and Stephan Hartmann (eds.), EPSA Philosophy of Science: Amsterdam 2009, Dordrecht: Springer (2012), 439-448. [Preprint] [PhilSci Archive (Penultimate draft)]
(11)
Can the world be shown to be indeterministic after all?
In Claus Beisbart and Stephan Hartmann (eds.), Probabilities in Physics, Oxford: Oxford University Press (2011), 365-389. [PhilSci Archive (Preprint)]
(10)
Time travel and time machines (with Chris Smeenk)
In Craig Callender (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Time, Oxford: Oxford University Press (2011), 577-630. [PhilSci Archive (Preprint)]
(9)
No presentism in quantum gravity
In Vesselin Petkov (ed.), Space, Time, and Spacetime: Physical and Philosophical Implications of Minkowski's Unification of Space and Time, Berlin: Springer (2010), 257-278. [PDF] [PhilSci Archive (Preprint)]
(8)
Challenging the spacetime structuralist
(Winning entry of the 2009 Philosophy of Science Association Recent Ph.D. Award)
Philosophy of Science 76 (2009): 1039-1051. [PDF] [PhilSci Archive (Preprint)]
(7)
Do the laws of physics forbid the operation of time machines? (with John Earman and Christopher Smeenk)
Synthese 169 (2009): 91-124. [PDF] [PhilSci Archive (Penultimate draft)]
(6)
A twist in the geometry of rotating black holes: seeking the cause of acausality (with Hajnal Andréka and István Németi)
General Relativity and Gravitation 40 (2008): 1809-1823. [PDF] [arXiv (earlier preprint)]
(5)
Zeitreisen und Zeitmaschinen (in German)
In Thomas Müller (ed.), Philosophie der Zeit: Neue analytische Ansätze, Frankfurt a.M.: Vittorio Klostermann (2007), 191-219. [PDF (penultimate version)]
Excerpts reprinted as:
- (5.2) Zeitreisen in Philosophie und Physik. In Romeo Grünfelder (ed.), Horror Vacui, Berlin: The Green Box (2011), 151-173.
- (5.1) Das Paradoxe and Zeitreisen im 'Terminator' (2007). In Peter Bekes, Volker Frederking, and Axel Krommer (eds.), Philos--Philosophieren in der Oberstufe, Paderborn: Schöningh (2010), 131-133. (This is a German high school textbook of general philosophy.)
(4)
To quantize or not to quantize: fact and folklore in quantum gravity
Philosophy of Science 72 (2005): 777-788. [PDF] [PhilSci Archive (earlier preprint)]
(3)
Time machines (with John Earman)
In Edward N. Zalta (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2004 Edition, revised for Winter 2010 edition), URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2010/entries/time-machine/>. [PDF (A4)] [PDF (US Letter)] [Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
(2)
Generic incomparability of infinite-dimensional entangled states (with Rob Clifton and Brian Hepburn)
Physics Letters A303 (2002): 121-124. [PDF] [arXiv]
(1)
Henri Laueners offener Transzendentalismus (in German; with Philipp Keller, Stephan Leuenberger, and Nora Nussbaum
Information Philosophie 28/5 (2000): 34-41. [PDF]
Book Reviews
(4)
Review of Nick Huggett, Everywhere and Everywhen: Adventures in Physics and Philosophy, New York: Oxford University Press (2010)
Metascience 21 (2012): 485-488. [PDF] [Preprint]
(3)
Review of Katherine Brading and Elena Castellani (eds.), Symmetries in physics: philosophical reflections, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2003)
Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 36 (2005): 576-582. [PDF]
(2)
Review of Nick Bostrom, Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy, New York: Routledge (2002)
Philosophy of Science 71 (2004): 230-232. [PDF]
(1)
Review of Helena Eilstein (ed.), A Collection of Polish Works on Philosophical Problems
of Time and Spacetime, Dordrecht: Kluwer (2002)
Erkenntnis 60 (2004): 265-270. [PDF]