Frigg, Roman
Dr Roman Frigg
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Experience keywords:
philosophy of physics; philosophy of science
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Dr Frigg's research addresses both the general philosophy of science, and the philosophy of physics. With the former, his focus is on the problem of scientific representation and the nature of scientific theories. He is currently working on a book in which he critically reviews the common conceptions of models and theories and tries to show how some of the difficulties that these conceptions face can be circumvented. In his attempt to understand how scientific representation works, he believes that representation in the arts (in particular painting and literature) plays an important role. He believes that, in order to comprehend scientific representation, it is essential to recognise what it shares in common with, and how it differs from, representation in other domains. Through his engagement with chaos theory, Dr Frigg became interested in the foundation of statistical physics. His current research focuses on how probabilities are introduced and interpreted in statistical mechanics and on how our stance on this issue affects our understanding of irreversibility, the approach to equilibrium and the (alleged) reduction of thermodynamics to statistical mechanics.
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Languages: French [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]; Spanish [Spoken: Intermediate, Written: Intermediate]; German [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]
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Frigg, Roman and Bradley, Seamus and Machete, Reason L. and Smith, Leonard A. (2013) Probabilistic forecasting: why model imperfection is a poison pill. In: Andersen, Hanne and Dieks, Dennis and Gonzalez, Wenceslao and Ubel, Thomas and Wheeler, Gregory, (eds.) New challenges to philosophy of science. Springer. ISBN 9789400758445 Frigg, Roman and Bradley, Seamus and Du, Hailiang and Smith, Leonard A. (2013) Laplace's demon and climate change. Grantham Research Institue on Climate Change and the Environment working paper, 103. Grantham Research Institue on Climate Change and the Environment, London, UK Frigg, Roman (2013) Chance and determinism. In: Hajeck, Alan and Hitchcock, Christopher, (eds.) The Oxford handbook of probability and philosophy. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. Frigg, Roman (2013) What is statistical mechanics? In: Lorenzano, Pablo and Ortiz, Eduardo and Rheinberger, Hans-Jorg and Galles, Carlo Delfino, (eds.) History and philosophy of science and technology. Eolss Publishers, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9781848267763 Frigg, Roman and Hoefer, Carl (2013) Determinismo y probabilidad: una perspectiva humeana. In: Abeledo, Horacio and Miguel, Hernán and Paruelo, Jorge, (eds.) Contrafácticos, causación y explicación. Ediciones Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Buenos Aires. Frigg, Roman (2013) Los modelelos y la ficción. In: Lorenzano, Pablo, (ed.) Modelos y teorîas en biologîa. Prometeo, Buenos Aires. Frigg, Roman (2013) Qu'est-ce que c'est la méchanique statistique? In: Le Bihan, Sozig, (ed.) Précis de philosophie de la physique. Vuibert, Paris, pp. 152-176. ISBN 9782311011005 Frigg, Roman and Stainforth, David A. and Smith, Leonard A. (2013) The myopia of imperfect climate models: the case of UKCP09'. Philosophy of science, ISSN 0031-8248 Frigg, Roman (2013) Clever fetishists. Art history, ISSN 1467-8365 Frigg, Roman and Werndl, Charlotte (2012) Demystifying typicality. Philosophy of science, 79 (5). pp. 917-929. ISSN 0031-8248 Frigg, Roman and Werndl, Charlotte (2012) A new approach to the approach to equilibrium. In: Ben-Menahem, Yemima and Hemmo, Meir, (eds.) Probability in physics. Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. ISBN 9783642213281 Frigg, Roman (2012) Grundprobleme der Statistischen Mechanik. In: Esfeld, Michael, (ed.) Philosophie der Physik. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main, pp. 325-341. ISBN 9783518296332 Frigg, Roman and Hoefer, Carl (2012) The best humean system for statistical mechanics. Erkenntnis, ISSN 0165-0106 Frigg, Roman and Werndl, Charlotte (2011) Explaining thermodynamic-like behaviour in terms of epsilon-ergodicity. Philosophy of science, 78 (4). pp. 328-352. ISSN 0031-8248 Werndl, Charlotte and Frigg, Roman (2011) Entropy: a guide for the perplexed. In: Beisbart, Claus and Hartmann, Stephan, (eds.) Probabilities in physics. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 115-142. ISBN 9780199577439 Frigg, Roman and Hartmann, Stephan and Imbert, Cyrille (2011) Preface: special issue: models and simulations 2. Synthese, 180 (1). pp. 1-2. ISSN 0039-7857 Frigg, Roman and Berkovitz, Joseph and Kronz, Fred (2011) The ergodic hierarchy. In: Zalta, Edward N., (ed.) The Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy. Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. Frigg, Roman and Votsis, Ioannis (2011) Everything you always wanted to know about structural realism but were afraid to ask. European journal for philosophy of science, 1 (2). pp. 227-276. ISSN 1879-4912 Frigg, Roman and Howard, Catherine (2011) Fact and fiction in the neuropsychology of art. In: Schellekens, Elisabeth and Goldie, Peter, (eds.) The aesthic mind: philosophy and psychology. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 54-70. ISBN 9780199691517 Frigg, Roman (2011) Why typicality does not explain the approach to equilibrium. In: Suárez, Mauricio , (ed.) Probabilities, causes and propensities in physics. Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands, pp. 77-93. ISBN 9781402099038 Dizadji-Bahmani, Foad and Frigg, Roman and Hartmann, Stephan (2010) Who’s afraid of Nagelian reduction? Erkenntnis, 73 (3). pp. 393-412. ISSN 0165-0106 Dizadji-Bahmani, Foad and Frigg, Roman and Hartmann, Stephan (2010) Confirmation and reduction: a Bayesian account. Synthese, 179 (2). pp. 321-328. ISSN 0039-7857 Frigg, Roman (2010) Fiction and scientific representation. In: Frigg, Roman and Hunter, Matthew, (eds.) Beyond mimesis and convention: representation in art and science . Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, pp. 97-138. ISBN 9789048138500 Frigg, Roman (2010) Probability in Boltzmannian statistical mechanics. In: Ernst, Gerhard and Hütteman, Andreas, (eds.) Time, chance, and reduction : philosophical aspects of statistical mechanics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 92-118. ISBN 9780521884013 Frigg, Roman (2010) Models and fiction. Synthese, 172 (2). pp. 251-268. ISSN 0039-7857 Frigg, Roman and Hoefer, Carl (2010) Determinism and chance from a Humean perspective. In: Stadler, Friedrich, (ed.) The present situation in the philosophy of science. Springer, Germany, pp. 351-371. ISBN 9789048191147 Frigg, Roman and Hunter, Matthew, (eds.) (2010) Beyond mimesis and convention: representation in art and science. Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands. ISBN 9789048138500 Frigg, Roman (2010) Fiction and science. In: Woods, John, (ed.) Fictions and models. Philosophia Verlag, Munich, Germany. ISBN 9783884050996 Frigg, Roman (2009) Book review: a companionable coverage of the philosophy of science. Metascience, 18 (1). pp. 139-142. ISSN 0815-0796 Frigg, Roman (2009) Models in physics. In: Craig, E., (ed.) Routledge encyclopedia of philosophy. Routledge. Frigg, Roman (2009) GRW theory (Ghirardi, Rimini, Weber model of quantum physics). In: Greenberger, Daniel and Hentschel, Klaus and Weinert, Friedel, (eds.) Compendium of quantum physics: concepts, experiments, history and philosophy. Springer, pp. 266-270. ISBN 9783540706229 Frigg, Roman and Reiss, Julian (2008) The philosophy of simulation: hot new issues or same old stew? Synthese, 169 (3). pp. 593-613. ISSN 0039-7857 Frigg, Roman (2008) Chance in Boltzmannian statistical mechanics. Philosophy of science, 75 (5). pp. 670-681. ISSN 0031-8248 Frigg, Roman (2008) A field guide to recent work on the foundations of statistical mechanics. In: Rickles, Dean , (ed.) The Ashgate companion to contemporary philosophy of physics. Ashgate, London, UK, pp. 99-196. ISBN 9780754655183 Frigg, Roman (2008) Book review: the images of time: an essay on temporal representation. The British journal of aesthetics, 48 (4). pp. 467-469. ISSN 0007-0904 Frigg, Arno and Frigg, Roman and Hintermann, Beat and Barg, Alexey and Valderrabano, Victor (2007) The biomechanical influence of tibio-talar containment on stability of the ankle joint. Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy, 15 (11). pp. 1355-1362. ISSN 0942-2056 Cartwright, Nancy and Frigg, Roman (2007) String theory under scrutiny. IOP Publishing Frigg, Roman and Hartmann, Stephan (2007) Introduction - special issue. Studies in history and philosophy of modern physics, 38 (2). ISSN 1355-2198 Frigg, Roman and Hoefer, Carl (2007) Probability in GRW Theory. Studies in the history and philosophy of modern physics, 38 (2). pp. 371-389. ISSN 1355-2198 Frigg, Roman (2006) Scientific representation and the semantic view of theories. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 21 (1). pp. 49-65. ISSN 0495-4548 Hartmann, Stephan and Frigg, Roman (2006) Models in science. In: Zalta, Edward N., (ed.) The Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy. Stanford University, Stanford, CA., USA. Frigg, Roman (2006) 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 (1). pp. 26-31. ISSN 0960-0779 Berkovitz, Joseph and Frigg, Roman and Kronz, Fred (2006) The Ergodic hierarchy, randomness and chaos. Studies in the history and philosophy of modern physics, 37 (4). pp. 661-691. ISSN 1355-2198 Frigg, Roman (2005) Book review: ontological aspects of quantum field theory. Philosophy of science, 72 (3). pp. 511-514. ISSN 0031-8248 Hartmann, Stephan and Frigg, Roman (2005) Scientific models. In: Sarkar, Sahotra and Pfeifer, Jessica, (eds.) The philosophy of science: an encyclopedia. Routledge, New York, USA, pp. 740-749. ISBN 041597710x Frigg, Roman (2004) 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 (3). pp. 411-434. ISSN 1464-3537 Frigg, Roman (2003) Self-organised criticality - what it is and what it isn't. Studies in the history and philosophy of science part A, 34 (3). pp. 613-632. ISSN 0039-3681 Frigg, Roman (2003) 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 (1). pp. 43-57. ISSN 0269-8595 Frigg, Roman (2002) Book review: ubiquity: the science of history ... or why the world is simpler than we think. The British journal for the philosophy of science, 53 (4). pp. 585-591. ISSN 1464-3537 Frigg, Roman (2002) Models and representation: why structures are not enough. The London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK Frigg, Roman and Berkovitz, Joseph (2001) Book review: explaining chaos. The British journal for the philosophy of science, 52 (1). pp. 201-205. ISSN 1464-3537
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