Recent Publications and Preprints

Submitted

  • 2024b. “‘Something Entirely Contingent’: Hermann Cohen’s Already Relativized A Priori”. Rivista di Filosofia.
  • 2024d. “Particles and Fields. The Problem of Physical Identity in Marburg Neo-Kantianism”. HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science.
  • 2024e. “The Philosophical Coming of Age of Science. Euler’s Role in Cassirer’s Early Philosophy of Space and Time”. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science.

Forthcoming

  • 2024a. “Variability and Substantiality. Kurd Lasswitz, the Marburg School and the Neo-Kantian Historiography of Science”. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science.

Published

  • 2024c. “The Practice of Principles: Planck’s Vision of a Relativistic General Dynamics”. Archive for History of Exact Sciences. doi: 10.1007/s00407-024-00326-4. [pdf]
  • 2023a. “Cassirer and Energetics: An Investigation of Cassirer’s Early Philosophy of Physics”. British Journal for the History of Philosophy. doi: 10.1080/09608788.2023.2206854.
  • 2023b. “Coordination, Geometrization, Unification: An Overview of the Reichenbach–Einstein Debate on the Unified Field Theory Program”. In: Philosophers and Einstein’s Relativity. Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, vol. 342. Ed. by Chiara Russo Krauss and Luigi Laino. Cham: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-36498-3_6.
  • 2023c. “Reality and Appearence. Einstein and the Early Debate on Reality of Length Contraction”. European Journal for Philosophy of Science 13.4. doi: 10.1007/s13194-023-00555-4.
  • 2023d. “Relativity Theory as a Theory of Principles. A Reading of Cassirer’s Zur Einstein’schen Relativitätstheorie”. HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 13.2, pp. 261–296. doi: 10.1086/726076.
  • 2022e. “Motivational Kantianism: Cassirer’s Late Shift Towards a Regulative Conception of the a Priori”. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 95, pp. 118–125. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2022.08.002.
  • 2022f. “Geometrization vs. Unification. The Reichenbach–Einstein Quarrel about the Fernparallelismus Field Theory”. Synthese 200.3. doi: 10.1007/s11229-022-03531-2.
  • 2021d. “‘Geometrization of Physics’ vs. ‘Physicalization of Geometry’. The Untranslated Appendix to Reichenbach’s Philosophie der Raum-Zeit-Lehre”. In: From Philosophy of Nature to Physics. Logical Empiricism and the Natural Sciences. Ed. by Sebastian Lutz and Ádám Tamas Tuboly. London and New York: Roudlege, pp. 224–261. isbn: 978-1-138-36735-7.
  • 2020b. “Nothing but Coincidences. The Point-Coincidence Argument and Einstein’s Struggle with the Meaning of Coordinates in Physics”. European Journal for the Philosophy of Science 12.3. doi: 10.1007/s13194-022-00482-w.
  • 2020c. “‘Like Thermodynamics before Boltzmann’. On Einstein’s Distinction between Constructive and Principle Theories”. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 71, pp. 118–157. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsb.2020.02.005.
  • 2019f (with Don Howard). “Einstein’s Philosophy of Science”. In: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Ed. by Edward N. Zalta. Fall.
  • 2018f. “‘Physics Is a Kind of Metaphysics’. Émile Meyerson and Einstein’s Late Rationalistic Realism”. European Journal for the Philosophy of Science 8.3, pp. 783–829. doi: 10.1007/s13194-018-0211-y.
  • 2017d. “Traditions in Collision. The Emergence of Logical Empiricism Between the Riemannian and Helmholtzian Traditions”. HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 7, pp. 328–380. doi: 10.1086/693424.
  • 2016k. “The Sensation and the Stimulus. Psychophysics and the Prehistory of the Marburg School”. Perspectives on Science 25.3, pp. 287–323. doi: 10.1162/POSC_a_00244.
  • 2016l. “‘… But I still Can’t Get Rid of a Sense of Artificiality’: The Einstein-Reichenbach 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. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsb.2016.04.001.
  • 2016m. “Hermann Cohen’s Das Princip der Infinitesimal-Methode. The History of an Unsuccessful Book”. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 58, pp. 9–23. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2016.02.002.
  • 2015e. “‘Das Problem in ein Postulat verwandeln’: Cassirer und Einsteins Unterscheidung von konstruktiven und Prinzipien-Theorien”. In: Husserl, Cassirer, Schlick – ‘Wissenschaftliche Philosophie’ im Spannungsfeld von Phänomenologie, Neukantianismus und logischem Empirismus. Ed. by Matthias Neuber. Vienna: Springer, pp. 150–175. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-26745-6_8.
  • 2014c. “‘But One Must Not Legalize the Mentioned Sin. Phenomenological vs. Dynamical Treatments 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. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsb.2014.08.012.
  • 2013b. “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 44.2, pp. 115–134. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsb.2012.11.004.
  • 2013c. “Leibniz-Äquivalenz vs. Einstein-Äquivalenz. Was man von der Logisch-Empiristischen (Fehl-)Interpretation des Punkt-Koinzidenz-Arguments lernen kann”. Philosophia Naturalis 50.1, pp. 115–164. doi: 10.3196/003180213809359774
  • 2013d. “The Forgotten Tradition. How the Logical Empiricists Missed the Philosophical Significance of the Work of Riemann, Christoffel and Ricci”. Erkenntnis 78 (6), pp. 1219–1257. doi: 10.1007/s10670-012-9407-2.
  • 2013e. “Talking at Cross-Purposes. How Einstein and the Logical Empiricists never Agreed on what they were Disagreeing About”. Synthese 190 (17), pp. 3819–3863. doi: 10.1007/s11229-012-0229-1.
  • 2011c. “Leibniz, Kant und der moderne Symmetriebegriff”. Kant-Studien 102.4, pp. 422–454. doi: 10.1515/ kant.2011.030.
  • 2010b. “Urbild und Abbild. Leibniz, Kant und Hausdorff über das Raumproblem”. Journal for General Philosophy of Science 41.2, pp. 283–313. doi: 10.1007/s10838-010-9139-4.
  • 2008. “Kant, Helmholtz, Riemann und der Ursprung der geometrischen Axiome”. Philosophia naturalis 45 (2), pp. 236–269. doi: 10.3196/003180209789471263.

Books

Authored Books

  • 2011a. Reality and Negation – Kant’s Principle of Anticipations of Perception. An Investigation of Its Impact on the Post-kantian Debate. Dordrecht et al.: Springer. isbn: 978-94-007-0064-2.
  • 2003a. August Stadler interprete di Kant. Napoli: Guida. isbn: 88-7188-594-5.

Edited Books

  • 2018d (with Diana Kormos-Buchwald), eds. Collected Papers of Albert Einstein. Reichenbach and the Philosophical Reception of Miller Aether-Drift Experiments. Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 125–155. isbn: 978-0691-17881-3. Contributing Editor to vol. 15.
  • 2017e (with Anguel Stefanov), eds. General Relativity 1916–2016. Proceeding of the Fourth International Conference on the Nature and Ontology of Spacetime. Montreal: Minkowski Institute Press. isbn: 978-1-92776346-9.

Other Publications

  • 2021e. “Emanuele Cafagna: Kant e la metafisica della forza. Book Review”. Rivista di Filosofia 112.3, pp. 511– 513.
  • 2016i. “Gradus realitatis. Die intensive Größe bei Kant und im Neukantianismus”. In: Intensität und Realität. Systematische Analysen zur Problemgeschichte von on Gradualität, Intensität und quantitativer Differenz in Ontologie und Metaphysik. Ed. by Thomas Leinkauf and Thomas Kisser. Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 141–170. doi:10.1515/9783110345148-010.
  • 2016j. “‘Zwei Bedeutungen des Apriori’. Hermann Cohens Unterscheidung zwischen metaphysischem und transzendentalem a priori und die Vorgeschichte des Relativierten a priori”. In: Philosophie und Wissenschaft bei Hermann Cohen / Philosophy and Science in Hermann Cohen. Ed. by Christian Damböck. Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 177–203. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-58023-4_9.
  • 2016n. “Rev. Jimena Canales, The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time”. Isis 108 (3), pp. 732–733. doi: 10.1086/693840.
  • 2014b. “Rev. of Neuber, Matthias, Die Grenzen des Revisionismus: Schlick, Cassirer und das Raumproblem”. Journal for General Philosophy of Science 45.2, pp. 393–401. issn: 09254560, 15728587. doi: 10.1007/s10838-014-9252-x
  • 2007. “Kants Grundsatz der ‘Antizipationen der Wahrnehmung’ und seine Bedeutung für die theoretische Philosophie des Marburger Neukantianismus”. In: Kant im Neukantianismus: Fortschritt oder Rückschritt? Ed. by Marion Heinz and Christian Krijnen. Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, pp. 37–55.
  • 2005. “La distinzione kantiana tra ‘concetto’ e ‘intuizione’ e il problema della realtä delle ‘relazioni’”. Annuario Filosofico 10, pp. 113–146.
  •   2003b. “Grandezza intensiva e grandezza infinitesimale. Hermann Cohen e il principio kantiano delle Anticipazioni della percezione”. Annuario filosofico 19, pp. 275–318.