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Steven joined the Department in 1993 after holding previous appointments in Brazil and the USA. He is Professor of the Philosophy of Science and his teaching and research interests are, not surprisingly, in the philosophy of science and the history and philosophy of modern physics. He is currently on research leave, supported by a Leverhulme Major Research Scholarship.
Research Interests
* Philosophy of Science, especially models and the semantic approach, representation and structural realism
* Philosophy of Physics, especially the metaphysical foundations of quantum mechanics
* History of Physics, especially twentieth century
Selected Publications
* 'Metaphysical Underdetermination: Why Worry?', forthcoming in Synthese (available at Online First)
* 'Keeping Quiet on The Ontology of Models', forthcoming in Synthese (available at Online First)
* 'On the Transposition of the Substantial into the Functional: Bringing Cassirer's philosophy of Quantum Mechanics into the 21st Century', with A. Cei, in M. Bitbol, ,P. Kerszberg and J. Petitot (eds.), Constituting Objectivity, Transcendental Perpectives on Modern Physics, Dordrecth: Springer pp. 95-115, 2009.
* Science: Key Concepts in Philosophy, Continuum Press, 2007.
* Identity in Physics: A Historical, Philosophical and Formal Account. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006 (with Decio Krauss)
* 'Structure as a Weapon of the Realist', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 106 (2006), 167-85 .
Downloadable versions of papers freely available via White Rose Research Online. Preprints and reprints can be sent on request.
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