On ne connaît pas complètement une science tant qu'on n'en sait pas l'histoire (Auguste Comte)
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.