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• When is it Okay to Ban Research (Funding)? email for draft.

• Fighting Disinformation with Sunshine: Promoting Funding Transparency in Science, International Science Council blog.

• ​Screening Out Neurodiversity with Jada Wiggleton-Little, Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, 2023, 33, 1, 21-54.

• Fossil-Fuel Money is Warping Climate Research: Universities Must Require Full Funding Disclosure. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Sept 29, 2022.

• A Derivation of Exponential Temporal Discounting from Temporal Neutrality (draft) Philosophy of Science, forthcoming. 

• On the Horns of a Dilemma: Let the Northern White Rhino Vanish or Intervene? Ethics, Policy, and Environment, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1080/21550085.2021.1961199.

• Is Discounting for Tense Rational? Christoph Hoerl, Teresa McCormack and Alison Fernandes (eds.) Temporal Asymmetries in Philosophy and Psychology.

• The Normative Standard for Future Discounting. Australian Philosophical Review 2021, 227-253.

• Reply to Critics. Australian Philosophical Review 2021, 309-321.

• Making Science Better: Lessons From the COVID-19 Front. Issues in Science & Technology.

• Rules of the Road for Insect Gene Drive Research and Testing. Nature Biotech 35, 716-718, 2017, Adelman et al,  

• Wilful Ignorance, Knowledge, and the "Equal Culpability" Thesis: A Study of the Deeper Significance of the Principle of Legality Wisconsin Law Review, with Douglas Husak, 1994. Cited in SCOTUS dissent by Justice Kennedy in GLOBAL-TECH APPLIANCES, INC. v. SEB S. A. ( No. 10-6)

• Function, Contemplation, and Eudaimonia, Dialogue (Phi Sigma Tau), 1990.

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Philosophy of Science

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• Humean Laws of Nature: The End of the Good Old Days in Michael Hicks, Siegrfied Jaag and Christian Loew (eds.) Humean Laws for Human Agents, Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

• Metaphysics in Free Fall. IAI TV. 3 Feb 2021.

• Can We Quarantine the Quantum Blight? Scientific Realism and the Quantum (OUP), 2020, edited by Saatsi and French.

• Philosophy of Science and Metaphysics The Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Science, French and Saatsi, 2011 (Paperback, 2014)

• Review: There is No Theory of Everything New Scientist, 2010

• Special Sciences, Conspiracy and the Better Best System Account of Laws Erkenntnis, 2010, with Jonathan Cohen

• A Better Best System Account of Lawhood Philosophical Studies, 2009, with Jonathan Cohen

• Realist Ennui and the Base Rate Fallacy Philosophy of Science, with P.D. Magnus, 2005

• Humean Supervenience and Rotating Homogeneous Matter Mind, 2000

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Foundations of Physics (excluding Time)

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• The Toll of the Tolman Effect: On the Status of Classical temperature in General Relativity, with Eugene Y.S. Chua. Email for draft.

• Insights into Quantum Time Reversal from the Classical Schrödinger Equation, in submission. Slides: pdf

• The Prodigy That Time Forgot: The Incredible and Untold Story of John von Newton, Bassi, A., Goldstein, S., Tumulka, R., Zanghì, N. (eds.) Physics and the Nature of Reality: Essays in Memory of Detlef Dürr. 

•  Quantum Mechanics: Keeping It Real. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, forthcoming. 

• No Time for Time from No-Time, Philosophy of Science, with Eugene Chua. 

• Black Hole Thermodynamics: More Than an Analogy? Philosophy of Cosmology, edited by Barry Loewer, forthcoming, with John Dougherty (draft)

• What Becomes of a Causal Set? British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, with Chris Wuthrich, 2016

• One World, One Beable Synthese, 2015

• Review of Ney and Albert's The Wavefunction: Essays on the Metaphysics of Quantum Metaphysics British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2014

• Turn and Face the Strange… Ch-ch-changes: Philosophical Questions Raised by Phase Transitions Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Physics, edited by Robert Batterman, 2013, with Tarun Menon.

• Les Histoires Passées des Molécules Précis de philosophie de la physique, edited by Soazig Le Bihan, 2013 

• The Past Histories of Molecules Probabilities in Physics, edited by Beisbart and Hartmann, Oxford University Press, 2011.

• The Past Hypothesis Meets Gravity Gerhard Ernst and Andreas Hüttemann (eds.): Time, Chance and Reduction. Philosophical Aspects of Statistical Mechanics. CUP

• Does Quantum Mechanics Clash with the Equivalence Principle -- and Does It Matter? European Journal for Philosophy of Science, with Elias Okon, 2011 

• The Metaphysics in Quantum Theory 2009, Compendium of Quantum Physics: Concepts, Experiments, History and Philosophy, edited by F. Weinert, K. Hentschel and D. Greenberger. Springer.

• Review: Not So Cool Metascience, 2007

• Hot and Heavy Matters in the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics Foundations of Physics, 2011

• Time in Physics Encyclopedia of Philosophy, MacMillan, 2005

• Measures, Explanation and the Past: Should 'Special' Initial Conditions Be Explained? British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2004

• An Answer in Search of a Question: 'Proofs' of the Tri-Dimensionality of Space Studies in History & Philosophy of Modern Physics, 2005

• Review of J. Butterfield's Arguments of Time Philosophy of Science, 2005

• Who's Afraid of Maxwell's Demon -- and Which One? Quantum Limits to the Second Law, edited by D. Sheehan, American Institute of Physics, 2002. Reprinted as "A Collision Between Dynamics and Thermodynamics" in Entropy 2004, 6, 11-20

• Review of C. Liu and G. Emch's Logic of Thermo-Statistical Physics Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 2004

• Philosophy of Spacetime Physics Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Science, edited by Peter Machamer and Michael Silberstein, 2002, with Carl Hoefer.

• Review of D. Albert's Time and Chance. Metascience, 2002

• Thermodynamic Time Asymmetry The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (original, 2001; 2016 update; 2020 update) Edward N. Zalta (ed.)

• Taking Thermodynamics Too Seriously Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 2001.

• On Finding 'Real Time' in Quantum Mechanics Einstein, Relativity and Absolute Simultaneity, 2007

• The Emergence and Interpretation of Probability in Bohmian Mechanics Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 2007

• There is No Special Problem of Scientific Representation Theoria, with Jonathan Cohen, 2006

• Editorial: Introduction to the Special Issue Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 2000

• Why Quantize the Gravitational Field (or any other Field for that Matter)? Philosophy of Science, with Nick Huggett, 2001 

• There is No Puzzle About the Low Entropy Past Contemporary Debates in the Philosophy of Science, edited by C. Hitchcock, chapter 12, Blackwell, 2003

• Review of J. Cushing, A. Fine and S.Goldstein (eds). Bohmian Mechanics and Quantum Theory: An Appraisal" British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 1998

• Topology Change and the Unity of Space Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, with Robert Weingard, 2000

• Review of P. Smith's Explaining Chaos Mind, 2001

• Reducing Thermodynamics to Statistical Mechanics: The Case of Entropy Journal of Philosophy, 1999

• Is Time 'Handed' in a Quantum World? Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 2000

• Review of J. Earman's Bangs, Crunches, Whimpers and Shrieks, Philosophical Review, 1998

• Nonlocality in the Expanding Infinite Well Foundations of Physics Letters, with Robert Weingard, 1998

• Trouble in Paradise? Problems for Bohm's Theory The Monist, 1997

• Time. Bohm's Theory, and Quantum Cosmology Philosophy of Science, with Bob Weingard, 1996

• Answer to Question #22" ["Is there a gravitational force or not?"] American Journal of Physics, with Bob Weingard, 1996

• An Introduction to Topology The Monist, with Bob Weingard, 1996

• Review of H. Price's Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point Metascience, 1996

• Bohmian Cosmology and the Quantum Smearing of the Initial Singularity Physics Letters A, with Bob Weingard, 1995

• The Metaphysics of Time Reversal: Hutchison on Classical Mechanics British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 1995

• Answer to Question #15 [What space scales participate in cosmic expansion?] American Journal of Physics, with Bob Weingard, 1995

• Review of M. Dorato's Time and Reality British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 1997

• Review of S. Savitt's Time's Arrow Today Canadian Philosophical Reviews, 1996

• A Bohmian Model of Quantum Cosmology Philosophy of Science, with Bob Weingard, 1994

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Time

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• Going “Humean” on the Flow of Time, with Bosco G. Aspirichaga, in Timing and Time Perception, 2023.

• Time in Cosmology In Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Physics, edited by E. Knox and A. Wilson, 2021, with Casey McCoy.

• Time, Flow, and Space. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 42 2019. Response to Hoerl and McCormack's BBS target, "Thinking in and about time: A dual systems perspective on temporal cognition"

• Time Lost, Time Regained Metaphysics & Cognitive Science, 2019, edited by Alvin Goldman and Brian McLaughlin (draft)

• What Makes Time Special? Oxford University Press, 2017

• Thank Goodness That Argument is Over: Explaining the Temporal Value Asymmetry Philosophical Imprints, with Christopher Suhler, 2012

• Time's Ontic Voltage The Future of the Philosophy of Time, edited by Adrian Bardon, 2012

• Is Time an Illusion? Scientific American, 2010. [Reprinted in A Matter of Time, 2012]

• Review: Time Ain't What It Used to Be. New Scientist, 2010

• Review of M. Jammer's Concepts of Simultaneity. Isis, 2008

• The Common Now. Philosophical Issues, 2008

• Review of Robin LePoidevin's Images of Time Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2008

• Time, entry in the World Book Encyclopedia, for children

• Shedding Light on Time Philosophy of Science, 2000

• Introducing Time, Icon/Totem Books [Later reprinted as Time: A Graphic Guide]

• The View from Nowhen British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 1998

• What is the 'Problem of the Direction of Time'? Philosophy of Science, 1997

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