Dr Roman Frigg

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Senior Lecturer in Philosophy

Published works - original papers

• 'Entropy – A Guide for the Perplexed', forthcoming in Claus Beisbart and Stephan Hartmann (eds.): Probability in Physics, Oxford University Press, with Charlotte Werndl.
• 'Fiction in Science', forthcoming in John Woods (ed.): Fictions and Models: New Essays, Munich: Philosophia Verlag.
• 'Confirmation and Reduction: A Bayesian Account', Synthese 179(2), 321-38, 2011, with Foad Dizadji-Bahmani and Stephan Hartmann.
• 'Who's Afraid of Nagelian Reduction', forthcoming in Erkenntnis, with Foad Dizadji-Bahmani and Stephan Hartmann.
• 'Models and Fiction', Synthese 172(2), 2010, 251-268.
• Spanish translation: 'Los Modelos y la Ficción', forthcoming in Pablo Lorenzano (ed.): Modelos y Teorías en Biología. Buenos Aires: Prometeo. 
• 'Determinism and Chance from a Humean Perspective', forthcoming in Dennis Dieks, Wenceslao Gonzalez, Stephan Hartmann, Marcel Weber, Friedrich Stadler and Thomas Uebel (eds.): The Present Situation in the Philosophy of Science. Berlin and New York: Springer, with Carl Hoefer.
• 'Fact and Fiction in the Neuropsychology of Art', forthcoming in Peter Goldie and Elisabeth Schellekens: The Aesthetic Mind: Philosophy and Psychology, Oxford: Oxford University Press, with Catherine Howard.
• 'Fiction and Scientific Representation', forthcoming in Roman Frigg and Matthew Hunter (eds.): Beyond Mimesis and Nominalism: Representation in Art and Science, Berlin and New York: Springer 
•  'Typicality and the Approach to Equilibrium in Boltzmannian Statistical Mechanics', Philosophy of Science (Supplement) 76, 2009, 997–1008.
• 'The Philosophy of Simulation: Hot New Issues or Same Old Stew?',  Synthese 169 (3), 2009, 593–613, with Julian Reiss.
• 'Probability in Boltzmannian Statistical Mechanics', in Gerhard Ernst and Andreas Hüttemann (eds.): Time, Chance and Reduction. Philosophical Aspects of Statistical Mechanics. Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press, 2010, 92-118.
• 'Chance in Boltzmannian Statistical Mechanics', Philosophy of Science (Supplement) 75, 2008, 670–681.
• 'Why Typicality Does Not Explain the Approach to Equilibrium', forthcoming in Mauricio Suárez (ed.): Probabilities, Causes and Propensities in Physics. Synthese Library. Dordrecht: Springer, 2010.
• 'Probability in GRW Theory', Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 38, 2007, 371-389, with Carl Hoefer.
• 'The Ergodic Hierarchy, Randomness and Chaos', Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 37, 2006, 661-691, with Joseph Berkovitz and Fred Kronz.
• 'Chaos and Randomness: An Equivalence Proof of a Generalised Version of the Shannon Entropy and the Kolmogorov-Sinai Entropy for Hamiltonian Dynamical Systems', Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 28, 2006, 26-31.
• 'Scientific Representation and the Semantic View of Theories', Theoria 55, 2006, 49-65.
• 'In What Sense Is the Kolmogorov-Sinai Entropy a Measure for Chaotic Behaviour? – Bridging the Gap Between Dynamical Systems Theory and Communication Theory', British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 55, 2004, 411-434.
• 'Self-Organised Criticality – What It Is and What It Isn't', Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 34, 2003, 613-632.
• 'On the Property Structure of Realist Collapse Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics and the So-Called "Counting Anomaly"', International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 17, 2003, 43-57.
• 'Models and Representation: Why Structures Are Not Enough', Measurement in Physics and Economics Project Discussion Paper Series, DP MEAS 25/02, London School of Economics 2002.

Published works - survey articles

• ' A Field Guide to Recent Work on the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics ', in Dean Rickles (ed.): The Ashgate Companion to Contemporary Philosophy of Physics. London: Ashgate, 2008, 99-196.
• ' Models in Science ', Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2006 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2006/entries/models-science/ >, with Stephan Hartmann.

Published works - encyclopaedia entries

• 'Models in Physics', Routledge Encyclopaedia of Philosophy (web version) [link to the article].
•  'GRW Theory', in: Daniel Greenberger, Brigitte Falkenburg, Klaus Hentschel and Friedel Weinert (eds.): Compendium of Quantum Physics: Concepts, Experiments, History and Philosophy. Springer, 266-270.
• 'Scientific Models', in: Sahorta Sarkar and Jessica Pfeifer (eds.): The Philosophy of Science: An Encyclopedia. New York: Routledge 2006, 740-749, with Stephan Hartmann.

Published works - discussion notes

• ' String Theory under Scrutiny ', Physics World 20 (September Issue), 2007, 14-15, with Nancy Cartwright.

Published works - book reviews

•  Robin Le Poidevin: The Images of Time. An Essay on Temporal Representation(Oxford: Oxford University Press 2007), British Journal of Aesthetics 48, 2008, 467 - 469.
• Stathis Psillos and Martin Curd (eds.): The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science, (London: Routledge 2008), Metascience 18, 2009, 139–142.
• Meinard Kuhlmann, Holger Lyre, and Andrew Wayne (eds.): Ontological Aspects of Quantum Field Theory ( Singapore: World Scientific 2002),Philosophy of Science 72, 2005, 511-514. (For a longer version of the review click here .)
• Mark Buchanan: Ubiquity. The Science of History ... Or Why the World Is Simpler than We Think , (London: Weidenfeld and Nichols 2000), British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 53, 2002, 585-591.
• Peter Smith: Explaining Chaos ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1998), British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 52, 2001, 201-205, with Joseph Berkovitz.

Published works - edited volumes

• Models and Simulations 2, special issue of Synthese (forthcoming), with Stephan Hartmann and Cyrille Imbert.
• Models and Simulations 1, special issue of Synthese (Vol. 169, No. 3), 2009, with Stephan Hartmann and Cyrille Imbert.
• Probability in Quantum Mechanics, special issue of Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Vol. 38, No. 2), 2007, with Stephan Hartmann.
• Scientific Representation, special issue of Theoria (Vol. 21/1, No. 55), 2006, with José Díez.

Published works - interdisciplinary papers

• ' The Biomechanical Influence of Tibio-Talar Containment on Stability of the Ankle Joint ', Journal of Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology and Arthroscopy 15(11), 2007, 1355-62, with Arno Frigg, Beat Hintermann, Alexey  Barg and Victor Valderrabano.

Papers in Other Languages

• ' Determinism and Chance from a Humean Perspective ', forthcoming in Spanish translation in Horacio Abeledo, Hernán Miguel y Jorge Paruelo (eds.): Contrafácticos, Causación y Explicación. Buenos Aires: Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento University Press, with Carl Hoefer. [Extended version of its English language namesake.]
• ' What Is Statistical Mechanics? ', forthcoming in French translation in Sozig Le Bihan (ed.): Philosophie de la Physique, Editions Syllepse 2010. (to download the figures click here ).
• ' Los Modelos y la Ficción ', forthcoming in Pablo Lorenzano (ed.): Modelos y Teorías en Biología. Buenos Aires: Prometeo. [Translation of 'Models and Fiction']

Unpublished works

• Re-presenting Scientific Representation, PhD thesis, University of London, England, 2003.
• Empiristische Kausalitätstheorien und ihre Kritik, Lizentiatsarbeit in Philosophie (master's thesis in philosophy), Universität Basel, Switzerland, 1999.
• Integrability in Classical and Quantum Mechanical Particle Systems in a Phase Space Representation, Diplomarbeit in Theoretischer Physik (master's thesis in theoretical physics), Universität Basel, Switzerland,1997.

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