Publications

BOOK

1. ‘Emergence and Reduction in Physics‘, Element of Cambridge University Press, 2022.

JOURNAL ARTICLES AND CONTRIBUTIONS

17. `Intertheory Relations in Physics’, entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2024. Published version.

16. `Statistical Mechanical Models of Finance’ [with J. Jhun ], in The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Scientific Modeling. London, Routledge, 2024. Published version. 

15. ‘Intertheoretic reduction in physics: a pluralistic approach (in Spanish), Revista de Humanidades de Valparaiso, 2024.

14. `Intertheoretic Reduction in Physics Beyond the Nagelian Model’, in C. Soto (Ed), Current Debates in Philosophy of Science: In Honor of Roberto Torretti, Synthese Library Series, Springer, 2023. Published version.

13. `What Can we Learn (and not Learn) from Thought Experiments in Black Hole Thermodynamics?’ [with Rawad El Skaf], Synthese, 2022. Published version.

12. `From a free energy principle to a free energy model?’, Physics of Life Reviews, 2022. Published version.

11. `Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics and the Free Energy Principle in Biology’ [with Matteo Colombo], Biology & Philosophy, 36(41), 2021. Published version.

10. `On the Universality of Hawking Radiation’ [with K. Thebault and S. Gryb], The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 72(3), 2021. Preprint. Published version.

9. `The Paradox of Infinite Limits: A Realist Response’ [with G. Valente], in T. D. Lyons & P. Vickers (eds.), Contemporary Scientific Realism and the Challenge from the History of Science, Oxford University Press (2021). Preprint.

8. `¿Qué pueden enseñarnos las ciencias de la complejidad sobre política y democracia? [with David García], Estudios Públicos, 162 (2021), 7-29. Published version

7. `Ehrenfest and Ehrenfest-Afanassjewa on statistical mechanics: The ergodic hypothesis’, in Tatjana Afanassjewa and her Legacy: Philosophical Developments to the Work of a Great Mathematical Physicist. Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences, vol 7. Springer (2021). Published. Preprint. 

6. ‘What Science can do for Democracy – A Complexity Science Approach’ [with K. Wiesner, T Eliassi-Rad, H Farrell, D Garcia, S Lewandowsky, D Ross, D Sornette and K. Thébault], Humanities Social Sciences Communications 30(7) (2020). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-020-0518-0

5. Infinite Idealizations in Science: An Introduction [With Samuel Fletcher, Laura Ruetsche, and Elay Shech], Synthese, 196, pages1657–1669 (2019). Published version.

4. Phase Transitions: A Challenge for Intertheoretic Reduction?’, Philosophy of Science, 86 (4): 612-640 (2019). Published version. Preprint

3. `Stability of Democracies – A Complex System Perspective’ [with K. Wiesner, A Birdi, T Eliassi-Rad, H Farrell, D Garcia, S Lewandowsky,  D Ross, D Sornette and K. Thébault], European Journal of Physics (2018), DOI: 10.1088/1361-6404/aaeb4d. Published version. Press release.

2. `Stock Market Crashes as Critical Phenomena?: Explanation, Idealization and Universality in Econophysics’ [with J. Jhun and J. Weatherall], Synthese, 195(10), 4477–4505 (2018). Published version. Preprint.

1. `Had We But World Enough and Time… But We Don’t! Justifying the Thermodynamic and Infinite-time Limits in Statistical Mechanics’, Foundations of Physics, 48(5), 526–541 (2018).  Published version. Preprint.

EDITED COLLECTIONS

2. Infinite Idealizations in Science. Special Issue, Synthese, 196(5), 2019. [With Samuel Fletcher, Laura Ruetsche, and Elay Shech] Introduction 

1. Surrogative Reasoning in the Sciences, Topical Collection, Synthese, December 2021. [with Rawad El Skaf, Laura Felline and Giovanni Valente] (forthcoming).

BOOK REVIEWS

2. A Middle Way: A Non-Fundamental Approach to Many-Body Physics by Robert Batterman: Reductionism and the Autonomy of Scales. Published version. 

1. Review of ‘Chance and Temporal Asymmetry’, Alistair Wilson (ed.), International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 3(2), 2016. Published version. 

 

IN PREPARATION

Papers

  • “Emergence, top-down causation and the challenge of modeling collective behavior in biophysics.”
  • “Reduction and the Autonomy of Scales”
  • “Redefining equilibrium for Long-range Interacting Systems”, with Lapo Casetti