Mauro Dorato (dorato)

Contributions to Philosophie.ch

Bibliography

Dorato, Mauro. 1988. “The World of the Worms and the Quest for Reality.” Dialectica 42(3): 171–182.
Dorato, Mauro. 1995. Time and Reality: Spacetime Physics and the Objectivity of Temporal Becoming. Bologna: Cooperativa Libraria Universitaria Editrice (CLUEB).
Dorato, Mauro. 1997. “Three Views on the Relationship Between Time and Reality.” in Perspectives on Time, edited by Jan Faye, Uwe Scheffler, and Max Urchs, pp. 61–92. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 189. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Dorato, Mauro. 1998. “The Question of the Reality of Time and the Model-Theoretic Approach to Scientific Theories.” Logique et Analyse 41(164): 313–325.
Dorato, Mauro. 1999a. “Cao on Substantivalism and the Development of 20th Century Field Theories [review of Cao (1997)].” Epistemologia. An International Review for the Philosophy of Science 22: 151–166.
Dorato, Mauro. 1999b. “Time, Relativity, and the Spatiality of Mental Events.” in Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science X: Language, Quantum and Music– Selected Contributed Papers of the Tenth International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Florence, 1995, edited by Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara, Roberto Giuntini, and Federico Laudisa, pp. 197–208. Synthese Library n. 281. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Dorato, Mauro. 1999c. “The Conflict between the Static and the Dynamic Theory of Time in its Relation to von Wright’s Work and to Human Freedom.” in In Search of a New Humanism. The Philosophy of Georg Henrik von Wright, edited by Rosaria Egidi, pp. 131–138. Synthese Library n. 282. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Dorato, Mauro. 2000a. “Becoming and the Arrow of Causation.” Philosophy of Science 67(suppl.): S523–S534. PSA 1998: Proceedings of the 1998 Biennial Meetings of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposium Papers.
Dorato, Mauro. 2000b. “Substantivalism, Relationism, and Structural Spacetime Realism.” Foundations of Physics 30(10): 1605–1628.
Dorato, Mauro. 2000c. “Facts, Events, Things and the Ontology of Physics.” in Things, Facts and Events, edited by Jan Faye, Uwe Scheffler, and Max Urchs, pp. 343–364. Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities n. 76. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
Dorato, Mauro. 2000d. “Measurability, Computability and the Existence of Theoretical Entities.” in The Reality of the Unobservable. Observability, Unobservability and Their Impact on the Issue of Scientific Realism, edited by Evandro Agazzi and Massimo Pauri, pp. 207–218. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 215. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Dorato, Mauro. 2002a. “On Becoming, Cosmic Time and Rotating Universes.” in Time, Reality and Experience, edited by Craig Callender, pp. 253–276. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement n. 50. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Dorato, Mauro. 2002b. “Kant, Gödel and Relativity.” in Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science XI: In the Scope of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science: Volume One of the Proceedings of the 11th International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Kraków, 1999, edited by Peter Gärdenfors, Jan Woleński, and Katarzyna Kijania-Placek, pp. 331–348. Synthese Library n. 315. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Dorato, Mauro. 2003. “Review of Craig (2001).” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 34(1): 154–158.
Dorato, Mauro. 2005a. The Software of the Universe: An Introduction to the History and Philosophy of Laws of Nature. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate.
Dorato, Mauro. 2005b. “Why are (Most) Laws of Nature Mathematical?” in Nature’s Principles, edited by Jan Faye, Paul Needham, Uwe Scheffler, and Max Urchs, pp. 55–76. Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science n. 4. Dordrecht: Springer.
Dorato, Mauro. 2006a. “The Irrelevance of the Presentist/Eternalist Debate for the Ontology of Minkowski Spacetime.” in The Ontology of Spacetime, edited by Dennis Dieks, pp. 93–109. Philosophy and the Foundations of Physics Series n. 1. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers B.V.
Dorato, Mauro. 2006b. “Absolute Becoming, Relational Becoming and the Arrow of Time. Some Non Conventional Remarks on the Connection between Physics and Metaphysics.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 37(3): 559–576.
Dorato, Mauro. 2007a. “Dispositions, Relational Properties and the Quantum World.” in Dispositions and Causal Powers, edited by Max Kistler and Bruno Gnassounou, pp. 249–270. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate.
Dorato, Mauro. 2007b. “Tempo della mente e tempo della materia. La natura del presente e la teoria della relatività.” Quaestio. Annuario di storia della metafisica 7: 489–503.
Dorato, Mauro. 2008a. “Is Structural Realism Relationism in Disguise? The Supererogatory Nature of the Substantivalism/Relationism Debate.” in The Ontology of Spacetime, edited by Dennis Dieks, pp. 17–37. Philosophy and the Foundations of Physics Series n. 2. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers B.V.
Dorato, Mauro. 2008b. “Putnam on Time and Special Relativity: A Long Journal from Ontology to Ethics.” European Journal of Analytic Philosophy 4(2): 51–70.
Dorato, Mauro. 2010. “On Various Senses of ‘Conventional’ and Their Interrelation in the Philosophy of Physics: Simultaneity as a Case Study.” in The Present Situation in the Philosophy of Science, edited by Friedrich Stadler, pp. 335–349. The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective n. 1. Berlin: Springer.
Dorato, Mauro. 2011a. “The Alexandroff Present and Minkowski Spacetime: Why it Cannot Do What it has Been Asked to Do.” in Explanation, Prediction, and Confirmation, edited by Dennis Dieks, Wenceslao J. González, Stephan Hartmann, Thomas E. Uebel, and Marcel Weber, pp. 379–394. The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective n. 2. Berlin: Springer.
Dorato, Mauro. 2011b. “Do Dispositions and Propensities Have a Role in the Ontology of Quantum Mechanics? Some Critical Remarks.” in Probabilities, Causes and Propensities in Physics, edited by Mauricio Suárez, pp. 197–220. Synthese Library n. 347. Dordrecht: Springer.
Dorato, Mauro. 2012. “Mathematical Biology and the Existence of Biological Laws.” in Probabilities, Laws, and Structures, edited by Dennis Dieks, Wenceslao J. González, Stephan Hartmann, Michael Stöltzner, and Marcel Weber, pp. 109–122. The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective n. 3. Berlin: Springer.
Dorato, Mauro. 2015a. “Events and the Ontology of Quantum Mechanics.” Topoi 34(2): 369–378.
Dorato, Mauro. 2015b. “Laws of Nature and the Reality of the Wave Function.” Synthese 192(10): 3179–3201.
Dorato, Mauro. 2016. “Rovelli’s Relational Quantum Mechanics, Anti-Monism, and Quantum Becoming.” in The Metaphysics of Relations, edited by Anna Marmodoro and David Yates, pp. 235–262. Mind Association Occasional Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198735878.001.0001.
Dorato, Mauro. 2017. “Dynamical versus Structural Explanations in Scientific Revolutions.” Synthese 194(7): 2307–2327.
Dorato, Mauro and Cei, Angelo. 2012. “Preface: Bridging a Gulf (…or Perhaps Two!).” European Journal of Analytic Philosophy 8(1): 4–13.
Dorato, Mauro and Esfeld, Michael. 2016. “The Metaphysics of Laws: Dispositionalism vs. Primitivism.” in Metaphysics in Contemporary Physics, edited by Tomasz F. Bigaj and Christian Wüthrich, pp. 403–424. Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities n. 104. Amsterdam: E.J. Brill.
Dorato, Mauro and Felline, Laura. 2011. “Scientific Explanation and Scientific Structuralism.” in Scientific Structuralism, edited by Alisa Bokulich and Peter Bokulich, pp. 161–176. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 281. Dordrecht: Springer, doi:10.1007/978-90-481-9597-8.
Dorato, Mauro and Laudisa, Federico. 2014. “Realism and Instrumentalism about the Wave Function: How should we Choose?” in Protective Measurement and Quantum Reality. Towards a New Understanding of Quantum Mechanics, edited by Shan Gao, pp. 119–134. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Dorato, Mauro and Morganti, Matteo. 2013. “Grades of Individuality. A Pluralistic View of Identity in Quantum Mechanics and in the Sciences.” Philosophical Studies 163(3): 591–610.
Dorato, Mauro and Pauri, Massimo. 2006. “Holism and Structuralism in Classical and Quantum General Relativity.” in The Structural Foundations of Quantum Gravity, edited by Dean P. Rickles, Steven French, and Juha Saatsi, pp. 121–151. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199269693.001.0001.

Further References

Cao, Tian Yu. 1997. Conceptual Development of 20th Century Field Theories. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/cbo9780511563997.
Craig, William Lane. 2001. Time and the Metaphysics of Relativity. Philosophical Studies Series n. 84. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.