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  • A unique collaboration using a virtual Earth-sized telescope shows how science is changing in the 21st century

    Sophie Ritson & Niels C.M. Martens

    The Conversation

    Martens, Niels

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    Subcategory: History and Philosophy of Gravity and Spacetime Theories

    General Philosophy of Science

    Subcategory: Epistemology of Science

    2023

  • Doing More with Less: Dark Matter & Modified Gravity

    Niels C.M. Martens & Martin King

    Philosophy of Astrophysics — Stars, Simulations, and the Struggle to Determine What is Out There, Boyd, N.M., De Baerdemaeker, S., Heng, K. & Matarese, V. (eds.), Synthese Library – Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science

    Niels, Martens

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    Subcategory: History and Philosophy of Particle Physics

    General Philosophy of Science

    Forthcoming

  • On Functional Analytic Notions of Black Hole Event Horizons and Black Hole Entropy

    Christian Röken

    Röken, Christian

    Physics and Mathematics

    Preprint

  • The Next Generation Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration: History, Philosophy, and Culture

    Galison, P., Doboszewski, J., Elder, J., Martens, N.C.M., Ashtekar, A., Enander, J., Gueguen, M., Kessler, E.A., Lalli, R., Lesourd, M., Marcoci, A., Murgueitio Ramirez, S., Natarajan, P., Nguyen, J., Reyes-Galindo, L., Ritson, S., Schneider, M.D., Skulberg, E., Sorgner, H., Stanley, M., Thresher, A.C., Van Dongen, J., Weatherall, J.O., Wu, J. & Wüthrich, A.

    Galaxies

    Doboszewski, Juliusz

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    Subcategory: History and Philosophy of Gravity and Spacetime Theories

    General Philosophy of Science

    Subcategory: Epistemology of Science

    2023

  • The Tangle of Science: Reliability Beyond Method, Rigour, and Objectivity

    Nancy Cartwright, Jeremy Hardie, Eleonora Montuschi, Matthew Soleiman, and Ann C. Thresher

    Oxford University Press

    Thresher, Ann C.

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    Subcategory: History and Philosophy of Particle Physics

    General Philosophy of Science

    2023

  • Is the Observable Universe Consistent with the Cosmological Principle?

    Pavan Kumar Aluri, Paolo Cea, Pravabati Chingangbam, Ming-Chung Chu, Roger G. Clowes, Damien Hutsemékers, Joby P. Kochappan, Andrzej Krasiński, Alexia M. Lopez, Lang Liu, Niels C. M. Martens, C. J. A. P. Martins, Konstantinos Migkas, Eoin Ó Colgáin, Pratyush Pranav, Lior Shamir, Ashok K. Singal, M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari, Jenny Wagner, Shao-Jiang Wang, David L. Wiltshire, Shek Yeung, Lu Yin, Wen Zhao

    Martens, Niels

    Physics and Mathematics

    Preprint

  • Conceptualizing paradigms: on reading Kuhn’s history of the quantum

    Jan Potters

    Annals of Science

    Potters, Jan

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    Subcategory: History and Philosophy of Particle Physics

    2022

  • Universality is not universal: how much can we explain with falsehoods?

    Martin King

    Metascience

    King, Martin

    2022

    General Philosophy of Science

  • Bottoms up: The Standard Model Effective Field Theory from a model perspective

    Philip Bechtle, Cristin Chall, Martin King, Michael Krämer, Peter Mättig & Michael Stöltzner

    Studies in History and Philosophy of Science

    Chall, Christin

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    Subcategory: History and Philosophy of Particle Physics

    General Philosophy of Science

    Subcategory: Epistemology of Science

    2022

  • "Fundamental" "constants" and precision tests of the standard model

    Adam Koberinski

    Koberinski, Adam

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    Subcategory: History and Philosophy of Particle Physicss

    Preprint

  • An Exact, Time-dependent Analytical Solution for the Magnetic Field in the Inner Heliosheath

    Christian Röken, Jens Kleimann & Horst Fichtner

    Röken, Christian

    Physics and Mathematics

    Preprint

  • Special Issue on Individuality, Distinguishability, and (Non-)Entanglement

    Cord Friebe, Kian Salimkhani & Tina Wachter

    Journal for General Philosophy of Science

    Salimkhani, Kian

    General Philosophy of Science

    Subcategory: Metaphysics of Science

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    Subcategory: History and Philosophy of Particle Physics

    Forthcoming

  • Conjectures and Disconfirmations: Confirming the Standard Model Higgs

    Martin King

    Erkenntnis

    King, Martin

    Forthcoming

    General Philosophy of Science

    Subcategory: Epistemology of Science

  • Model-Independent Determination of the Cosmic Growth Factor

    Sophia Haude, Shabnam Salehi, Sofía Vidal, Matteo Maturi, Matthias Bartelmann

    SciPost Astronomy

    Haude, Sophia

    Physics and Mathematics

    2022

  • Inevitability of the Poisson bracket structure of the relativistic constraints

    Jan Głowacki

    Głowacki, Jan

    Physics and Mathematics

    2021

  • Scientific Perspectivism and the Methodology of Modern Mathematical Physics

    Noah Stemeroff

    Philosophy of Science

    Stemeroff, Noah

    General Philosophy of Science

    Subcategory: Metaphysics of Science

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    Subcategory: History and Philosophy of Gravity and Spacetime Theories

    2022

  • A family of horizon-penetrating coordinate systems for the Schwarzschild black hole geometry with Cauchy temporal functions

    Christian Röken

    General Relativity and Gravitation

    Röken, Christian

    Physics and Mathematics

    2022

  • Theory (In-)Equivalence and conventionalism in f(R) gravity

    Patrick M. Dürr

    Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A

    Duerr, Patrick

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    Subcategory: History and Philosophy of Gravity and Spacetime Theories

    2021

  • The dynamical approach to spin-2 gravity

    Kian Salimkhani

    Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics

    Salimkhani, Kian

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    Subcategory: History and Philosophy of Gravity and Spacetime Theories

    2020

  • Quantum Gravity: A Dogma of Unification?

    Kian Salimkhani

    In: A. Christian, D. Hommen, N. Retzlaff and G. Schurz (Eds.), Philosophy of Science – Between the Natural Sciences, the Social Sciences, and the Humanities, European Studies in Philosophy of Science, Vol. 9, Cham: Springer

    Salimkhani, Kian

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    Subcategory: History and Philosophy of Gravity and Spacetime Theories

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    Subcategory: History and Philosophy of Particle Physics

    2018

  • The Epistemology of Gravitational-Wave Astrophysics

    Jamee Elder

    PhD thesis University of Notre Dame

    Elder, Jamee

    2020

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    Subcategory: History and Philosophy of Gravity and Spacetime Theories

  • On the Fundamentality of Spacetime in General Relativity and Approaches to Quantum Gravity

    Kian Salimkhani

    PhD thesis University of Bonn

    Salimkhani, Kian

    2020

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    Subcategory: History and Philosophy of Gravity and Spacetime Theories

  • Dark Matter Realism

    Niels C.M. Martens

    Foundations of Physics

    [Winner of the Philosophy of Cosmology Essay Award]

    Martens, Niels

    2022

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    Subcategory: History and Philosophy of Particle Physics

  • Models and Multiplicities

    Joshua Eisenthal

    Journal of the History of Philosophy

    Eisenthal

    Forthcoming

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    General Philosophy of Science

  • Machian Comparativism about Mass

    Niels C.M. Martens

    The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

    Martens

    2022

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    Subcategory: History and Philosophy of Gravity and Spacetime Theories

    General Philosophy of Science

    Subcategory: Metaphysics of Science

  • The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein Volume 15. The Berlin Years: June 1925 - April 1927

    Diana Kormos Buchwald, Ze'ev Rosenkranz, József Illy, Anne Kox, Dennis Lehmkuhl (eds.); Daniel J. Kennefick, A.J. Kox, Michel Janssen, Tony Duncan (assoc. eds.)

    Princeton University Press

    Kormos-Buchwald

    2018

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    Subcategory: History and Philosophy of Gravity and Spacetime Theories

  • Model-Groups as Scientific Research Programmes

    Cristin Chall

    European Journal for Philosophy of Science

    Chall, Christin

    2020

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    Subcategory: History and Philosophy of Particle Physics

    General Philosophy of Science

    Subcategory: Epistemology of Science

  • The Metaphysics of Emergent Spacetime Theories

    Niels C.M. Martens

    Philosophy Compass

    Martens, Niels

    2019

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    Subcategory: History and Philosophy of Gravity and Spacetime Theories

    General Philosophy of Science

    Subcategory: Metaphysics of Science

  • Two Miracles of General Relativity

    James Read, Harvey Brown & Dennis Lehmkuhl

    Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics

    Lehmkuhl, Dennis

    2018

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    Subcategory: History and Philosophy of Gravity and Spacetime Theories

  • Towards a Theory of Spacetime Theories

    Dennis Lehmkuhl, Gregor Schiemann & Erhard Scholz (eds.)

    Einstein Studies: Birkhäuser/Springer

    Lehmkuhl, Dennis

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    Subcategory: History and Philosophy of Gravity and Spacetime Theories

    2017

  • Particle physics after the Higgs discovery: Philosophical perspectives

    Simon Friederich & Dennis Lehmkuhl

    Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics

    Lehmkuhl, Dennis

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    Subcategory: History and Philosophy of Particle Physics

    2015

  • Special Issue on Dark Matter and Modified Gravity

    Niels C.M. Martens, Miguel Ángel Carretero Sahuquillo, Erhard Scholz, Dennis Lehmkuhl, Michael Krämer

    Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics & Studies in History and Philosophy of Science

    Editorial (in SHPS): Integrating Dark Matter, Modified Gravity, and the Humanities

    Martens, Niels C.M.

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    Subcategory: History and Philosophy of Gravity and Spacetime Theories

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    Subcategory: History and Philosophy of Particle Physics

    2021

  • Dark Matter = Modified Gravity? Scrutinising the spacetime–matter distinction through the modified gravity/ dark matter lens

    Niels C.M. Martens & Dennis Lehmkuhl

    Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics

    Martens, Niels C.M.

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    Subcategory: History and Philosophy of Gravity and Spacetime Theories

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    Subcategory: History and Philosophy of Particle Physics

    2020

  • Cartography of the space of theories: an interpretational chart for fields that are both (dark) matter and spacetime

    Niels C.M. Martens & Dennis Lehmkuhl

    Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics

    Martens, Niels C.M.

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    Subcategory: History and Philosophy of Gravity and Spacetime Theories

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    Subcategory: History and Philosophy of Particle Physics

    2020

  • Why Einstein did not believe that General Relativity geometrizes gravity

    Dennis Lehmkuhl

    Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics

    Lehmkuhl, Dennis

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    Subcategory: History and Philosophy of Gravity and Spacetime Theories

    2014

  • The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein Volume 13. The Berlin Years: January 1922 – March 1923

    Diana Kormos Buchwald, Ze'ev Rosenkranz, Tilman Sauer, József Illy (eds.); Daniel J. Kennefick, A.J. Kox, Dennis Lehmkuhl and Osik Moses (assoc. eds.)

    Princeton University Press

    Lehmkuhl, Dennis

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    Subcategory: History and Philosophy of Gravity and Spacetime Theories

    2012

  • The Equivalence Principle(s)

    Dennis Lehmkuhl

    In E. Knox and A. Wilson (eds): The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Physics

    Lehmkuhl, Dennis

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    Subcategory: History and Philosophy of Gravity and Spacetime Theories

    2021

  • General Relativity as a Hybrid theory: The Genesis of Einstein's work on the Problem of Motion

    Dennis Lehmkuhl

    Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics.

    Lehmkuhl, Dennis

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    Subcategory: History and Philosophy of Gravity and Spacetime Theories

    2019

  • The Metaphysics of Super-Substantivalism

    Dennis Lehmkuhl

    Noûs

    Lehmkuhl, Dennis

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    Subcategory: History and Philosophy of Gravity and Spacetime Theories

    General Philosophy of Science

    Subcategory: Metaphysics of Science

    2018

  • Literal vs Careful Interpretations of Scientific Theories: the Vacuum Approach to the Problem of Motion in General Relativity

    Dennis Lehmkuhl

    Philosophy of Science

    Lehmkuhl, Dennis

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    Subcategory: History and Philosophy of Gravity and Spacetime Theories

    2017

  • Einstein, the reality of space, and the action-reaction principle

    Harvey Brown & Dennis Lehmkuhl

    "The Nature of Reality", P. Ghose (ed.), Oxford University Press

    Lemkuhl, Dennis

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    Subcategory: History and Philosophy of Gravity and Spacetime Theories

    2017

  • Time in Spacetimes

    Dennis Lehmkuhl

    Philosophia Naturalis

    Lehmkuhl, Dennis

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    Subcategory: History and Philosophy of Gravity and Spacetime Theories

    2012

  • Mass-Energy-Momentum: Only there because of Spacetime?

    Dennis Lehmkuhl

    The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

    Lehmkuhl, Dennis

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    Subcategory: History and Philosophy of Gravity and Spacetime Theories

    2012

  • Super-Substanzialismus in der Philosophie der Raumzeit

    Dennis Lehmkuhl

    In: Michael Esfeld (ed.): Philosophie der Physik, Suhrkamp

    Lehmkuhl, Dennis

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    Subcategory: History and Philosophy of Gravity and Spacetime Theories

    General Philosophy of Science

    Subcategory: Metaphysics of Science

    2011

  • Matter(s) in Relativity Theory

    Dennis Lehmkuhl

    In: Suárez M., Dorato M., Rédei M. (eds): Philosophical Issues in the Sciences: Launch of the European Philosophy of Science Association, Springer

    Lehmkuhl, Dennis

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    Subcategory: History and Philosophy of Gravity and Spacetime Theories

    2010

  • Is spacetime a gravitational field?

    Dennis Lehmkuhl

    In: Dennis Dieks`The Ontology of Spacetime II.' Series: Philosophy and Foundations of Physics Elsevier Science

    Lehmkuhl, Dennis

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    Subcategory: History and Philosophy of Gravity and Spacetime Theories

    2008

  • Sophistry about Symmetries?

    Niels C.M. Martens & James Read

    Synthese

    MartensNiels

    General Philosophy of Science

    Subcategory: Metaphysics of Science

    2021

  • The (Un)detectability of Absolute Newtonian Masses

    Niels C.M. Martens

    Synthese

    Martens, Niels

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    Subcategory: History and Philosophy of Gravity and Spacetime Theories

    General Philosophy of Science

    Subcategory: Metaphysics of Science

    2021

  • Simplicity in the Sciences and Humanities: Report on the Bonn “Simplicities and Complexities” Conference

    Cristin Chall & Niels Martens

    Journal for General Philosophy of Science

    Chall, Christin

    General Philosophy of Science

    2020

  • An Integral Representation of the Massive Dirac Propagator in the Nonextreme Kerr Geometry in Horizon-penetrating Coordinates

    Christian Röken

    PhD thesis University of Granada

    Röken, Christian

    Physics and Mathematics

    2019

  • The Fermionic Signature Operator in the Exterior Schwarzschild Geometry

    Felix Finster & Christian Röken

    Annales Henri Poincaré

    Röken Christian and Finster, Felix

    Physics and Mathematics

    2019

  • Explaining unification in physics internally

    Kian Salimkhani

    Synthese

    Salimkhani, Kian

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    2021

  • From a Boson to the Standard Model Higgs: A Case Study in Confirmation and Model Dynamics

    Cristin Chall, Martin King, Peter Mättig & Michael Stöltzner

    Synthese

    Chall, Christin

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    Subcategory: History and Philosophy of Particle Physics

    General Philosophy of Science

    Subcategory: Epistemology of Science

    2021

  • Non-Empirical Modeling and Theorizing: Scientific Progress in Particle Physics

    Cristin Chall

    PhD Thesis University of South Carolina

    Chall, Christin

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    Subcategory: History and Philosophy of Particle Physics

    General Philosophy of Science

    Subcategory: Epistemology of Science

    2019

  • Epistemic holes and determinism in classical general relativity

    Juliusz Doboszewski

    The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

    Doboszewski, Juliusz

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    Subcategory: History and Philosophy of Gravity and Spacetime Theories

    2020

  • Some Other “No Hole” Spacetimes Properties Are Unstable Too

    Juliusz Doboszewski

    Foundations of Physics

    Doboszewski, Juliusz

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    Subcategory: History and Philosophy of Gravity and Spacetime Theories

    2020

  • Explanations and Candidate Explanations in Physics

    Martin King

    European Journal for Philosophy of Science

    King, Martin

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    Subcategory: History and Philosophy of Particle Physics

    2020

  • Against ‘functional gravitational energy’: a critical note on functionalism, selective realism, and geometric objects and gravitational energy

    Patrick M. Dürr

    Synthese

    Duerr, Patrick

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    Subcategory: History and Philosophy of Gravity and Spacetime Theories

    2021

  • Gravitational Energy in Newtonian Gravity: A Response to Dewar and Weatherall

    Patrick M. Dürr & James Read

    Foundations of Physics

    Duerr, Patrick

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    Subcategory: History and Philosophy of Gravity and Spacetime Theories

    2019

  • Unweyling Three Mysteries of Nordström Gravity

    Patrick M. Dürr

    Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics

    Duerr, Patrick

    History and Philosophy of Physics

    Subcategory: History and Philosophy of Gravity and Spacetime Theories

    2020

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