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

    Christian Röken

    Röken, Christian

    Physics and Mathematics

    Preprint

  • 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

    Chall, Christin

    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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