Steven French (french-s)

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Bibliography

Bueno, Otávio, Darby, George, French, Steven and Rickles, Dean P., eds. 2017. Thinking about Science, Reflecting on Art. Bringing Aesthetics and Philosophy of Science Together. London: Routledge.
Bueno, Otávio and French, Steven. 2018. Applying Mathematics. Immersion, Inference, Interpretation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780198815044.001.0001.
Bueno, Otávio, French, Steven and Ladyman, James. 2002. “On Representing the Relationship between the Mathematical and the Empirical.” Philosophy of Science 69: 452–473.
Cei, Angelo and French, Steven. 2006. “Looking for Structure in All the Wrong Places: Ramsey Sentences, Multiple Realisability, and Structure.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 37(4): 633–655.
Cei, Angelo and French, Steven. 2009. “On the Transposition of the Substantial into the Functional: Bringing Cassirer’s Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics into the Twenty-First Century.” in Constituting Objectivity. Transcendental Perspectives on Modern Physics, edited by Michel Bitbol, Pierre Kerszberg, and Jean Petitot, pp. 95–116. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 74. Dordrecht: Springer.
Da Costa, Newton C. A., Bueno, Otávio and French, Steven. 1998. “The Logic of Pragmatic Truth.” The Journal of Philosophical Logic 27(6): 603–621.
Da Costa, Newton C. A. and French, Steven. 1988. “Belief and Contradiction.” Crı́tica: Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofı́a 20(60): 3–11.
Da Costa, Newton C. A. and French, Steven. 1989. “On the Logic of Belief.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 49(3): 431–446.
Da Costa, Newton C. A. and French, Steven. 1991. “Paraconsistency.” in Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology, edited by Hans Burkhardt and Barry Smith. Analytica: Investigations in Logic, Ontology, and the Philosophy of Language n. 2. München: Philosophia Verlag.
Da Costa, Newton C. A. and French, Steven. 1993. “Towards an Acceptable Theory of Acceptance: Partial Structures, Inconsistency and Correspondence.” in Correspondence, Invariance and Heuristics. Essays in Honour of Heinz Post, edited by Steven French and Harmke Kamminga, pp. 137–158. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 148. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Da Costa, Newton C. A. and French, Steven. 2000. “Models, Theories, and Structures: Thirty Years On.” Philosophy of Science 67: S116–S127.
Da Costa, Newton C. A. and French, Steven. 2002. “Inconsistency in Science: A Partial Perspective.” in Inconsistency in Science, edited by Joke Meheus, pp. 105–118. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, doi:10.1007/978-94-017-0085-6.
Da Costa, Newton C. A. and French, Steven. 2003. Science and Partial Truth. A Unitary Approach to Models and Scientific Reasoning. Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/019515651X.001.0001.
French, Steven. 1989a. “Identity and Individuality in Classical and Quantum Physics.” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 67(4): 432–446.
French, Steven. 1989b. “Why the Principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles is Not Contingently True Either.” Synthese 78: 141–166.
French, Steven. 1995a. “Hacking Away At the Identity of Indiscernibles: Possible Worlds and Einstein’s Principle of Equivalence.” The Journal of Philosophy 92(9): 455–466.
French, Steven. 1995b. “The Esperable Uberty of Quantum Chromodynamics.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 26(1): 87–105.
French, Steven. 1997. “Partiality, Pursuit and Practice.” in Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science X: Logic and Scientific Methods – Volume Two of the Tenth International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Florence, 1995, edited by Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara, Kees Doets, Daniele Mundici, and Johan van Benthem, pp. 35–52. Synthese Library n. 260. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
French, Steven. 1998. “On the Withering Away of Physical Objects.” in Interpreting Bodies: Classical and Quantum Objects in Modern Physics, edited by Elena Castellani, pp. 93–113. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
French, Steven. 1999a. “Models and Mathematics in Physics: The Role of Group Theory.” in From Physics to Philosophy, edited by Jeremy Butterfield and Constantine Pagonis, pp. 187–207. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
French, Steven. 1999b. “The Phenomenological Approach to Physics [Review of Gavroglu (1995)].” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 30(2): 267–281.
French, Steven. 2000a. “The Reasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics: Partial Structures and the Application of Group Theory to Physics.” Synthese 125: 103–120.
French, Steven. 2000b. “Identity and Individuality in Quantum Theory.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2000/entries/qt-idind/.
French, Steven. 2003. “Scribbling on the Blank Sheet: Eddington’s Structuralist Conception of Objects.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 34(2): 227–259.
French, Steven. 2006a. “Structure as a Weapon of the Realist.” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 106: 170–187.
French, Steven. 2006b. “Identity and Individuality in Quantum Theory.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2006/entries/qt-idind/.
French, Steven. 2008. “The Structure of Theories.” in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science, edited by Stathis Psillos and Martin Curd, pp. 269–280. Routledge Philosophy Companions. London: Routledge.
French, Steven. 2009. “Review of Falkenburg (2007).” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 40(2): 194–195.
French, Steven. 2011a. “Metaphysical Underdetermination: Why Worry?” Synthese 180(2): 205–221.
French, Steven. 2011b. “Review of Horgan and Potrč (2008).” The Philosophical Quarterly 61(242): 201–202.
French, Steven. 2011c. “Identity and Individuality in Quantum Theory.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2011/entries/qt-idind/.
French, Steven. 2012a. “The Presentation of Objects and the Representation of Structure.” in Structural Realism. Structure, Object, and Causality, edited by Elaine M. Landry and Dean P. Rickles, pp. 3–28. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 77. Dordrecht: Springer.
French, Steven. 2012b. “The Resilience of Laws and the Ephemerality of Objects: Can a Form of Structuralism Be Extended to Biology?” in Probabilities, Laws, and Structures, edited by Dennis Dieks, Wenceslao J. González, Stephan Hartmann, Michael Stöltzner, and Marcel Weber, pp. 187–200. The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective n. 3. Berlin: Springer.
French, Steven. 2013a. “Whither Wave Function Realism?” in The Wave Function: Essays in the Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics, edited by Alyssa Ney and David Z. Albert, pp. 76–90. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199790807.001.0001.
French, Steven. 2013b. “Semi-Realism, Sociability and Structure.” Erkenntnis 78(1): 1–18.
French, Steven. 2013c. “Symmetry, Invariance and Reference.” in Representation, Evidence, and Justification. Themes from Suppes, edited by Michael Frauchiger and Wilhelm K. Essler, pp. 127–156. Lauener Library of Analytical Philosophy n. 1. Heusenstamm b. Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag.
French, Steven. 2014. The Structure of the World. Metaphysics and Representation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199684847.001.0001.
French, Steven. 2015. “Identity and Individuality in Quantum Theory.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2015/entries/qt-idind/.
French, Steven. 2016a. Philosophy of Science. Key Concepts. 2nd ed. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
French, Steven. 2016b. “Eliminating Objects Across the Sciences.” in Individuals Across the Sciences, edited by Alexandre Guay and Thomas Pradeu, pp. 371–393. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199382514.001.0001.
French, Steven. 2017a. “(Structural) Realism and Its Representational Vehicles.” Synthese 194(9): 3311–3326.
French, Steven. 2017b. “Building Bridges with the Right Tools: Modality and the Standard Model.” in EPSA 15 – Selected Papers. The 5th Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association in Düsseldorf, edited by Michaela Massimi, Jan-Willem Romeijn, and Gerhard Schurz, pp. 37–48. European Studies in Philosophy of Science n. 5. Cham: Springer, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-53730-6.
French, Steven. 2017c. “Structural Realism and the Toolbox of Metaphysics.” in Varieties of Scientific Realism. Objectivity and Truth in Science, edited by Evandro Agazzi, pp. 227–244. Berlin: Springer.
French, Steven. 2017d. “Realism and Metaphysics.” in The Routledge Handbook of Scientific Realism, edited by Juha Saatsi, pp. 394–406. Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy. London: Routledge, doi:10.4324/9780203712498.
French, Steven. 2019a. “There Are No Such Things as Ordinary Objects.” in The Nature of Ordinary Objects, edited by Javier Cumpa and Bill Brewer, pp. 260–273. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/9781316612897.
French, Steven. 2019b. “Identity and Individuality in Quantum Theory.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2019/entries/qt-idind/.
French, Steven. 2020. There are no such things As Theories. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780198848158.001.0001.
French, Steven. 2021a. “Modality and Scientific Structuralism.” in The Routledge Handbook of Modality, edited by Otávio Bueno and Scott A. Shalkowski, pp. 221–229. Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy. London: Routledge.
French, Steven. 2021b. “Fundamentality.” in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Physics, edited by Eleanor Knox and Alastair Wilson, pp. 679–688. Routledge Companions. London: Routledge.
French, Steven. 2023. A Phenomenological Approach to Quantum Mechanics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780198897958.001.0001.
French, Steven and Bigaj, Tomasz F. 2024. “Identity and Individuality in Quantum Theory.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2024/entries/qt-idind/.
French, Steven and Kamminga, Harmke, eds. 1993. Correspondence, Invariance and Heuristics. Essays in Honour of Heinz Post. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 148. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
French, Steven and Krause, Décio. 1995. “Vague Identity and Quantum Non-Individuality.” Analysis 55: 20–26.
French, Steven and Krause, Décio. 1999. “The Logic of Quanta.” in Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Field Theory, edited by Tian Yu Cao, pp. 324–342. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
French, Steven and Krause, Décio. 2003. “Quantum Vagueness.” Erkenntnis 59: 97–124.
French, Steven and Krause, Décio. 2006. Identity in Physics: A Historical, Philosophical and Formal Analysis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/0199278245.001.0001.
French, Steven and Ladyman, James. 1997. “Superconductivity and Structures: Revisiting the London Account.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 28(3): 363–393.
French, Steven and Ladyman, James. 1998. “A Semantic Perspective on Idealism in Quantum Mechanics.” in Idealization IX: Idealization in Contemporary Physics, edited by Niall Shanks, pp. 51–73. Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities n. 63. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
French, Steven and Ladyman, James. 1999. “Reinflating the Semantic Approach.” International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 13: 103–121.
French, Steven and Ladyman, James. 2003a. “Remodelling Structural Realism: Quantum Physics and the Metaphysics of Structure.” Synthese 136(1): 31–56, doi:10.1023/a:1024156116636.
French, Steven and Ladyman, James. 2003b. “The Dissolution of Objects: Between Platonism and Phenomenalism.” Synthese 136(1): 73–77.
French, Steven and Ladyman, James. 2011. “In Defence of Ontic Structural Realism.” in Scientific Structuralism, edited by Alisa Bokulich and Peter Bokulich, pp. 25–42. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 281. Dordrecht: Springer, doi:10.1007/978-90-481-9597-8_2.
French, Steven and Massimi, Michaela. 2013. “Philosophy of Science: A Personal Peek into the Future.” Metaphilosophy 44(3): 230–240.
French, Steven and McKenzie, Kerry. 2012. “Thinking outside the (Tool)Box: Towards a More Productive Engagement Between Metaphysics and Philosophy of Physics.” European Journal of Analytic Philosophy 8(1): 42–59.
French, Steven and McKenzie, Kerry. 2016. “Rethinking outside the toolbox: Reflecting Again on the Relationship Between Philosophy of Science and Metaphysics.” in Metaphysics in Contemporary Physics, edited by Tomasz F. Bigaj and Christian Wüthrich, pp. 25–54. Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities n. 104. Amsterdam: E.J. Brill.
French, Steven and Redhead, Michael. 1988. “Quantum Physics and the Identity of Indiscernibles.” The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 39: 233–246.
French, Steven and Rickles, Dean P. 2003. “Understanding Permutation Symmetry.” in Symmetries in Physics: Philosophical Reflections, edited by Katherine Brading and Elena Castellani, pp. 212–238. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/cbo9780511535369.
French, Steven and Saatsi, Juha. 2006. “Realism about Structure: The Semantic View and Nonlinguistic Representations.” Philosophy of Science 73(5): 548–559.
French, Steven and Saatsi, Juha, eds. 2011a. The Continuum Companion to the Philosophy of Science. London: Continuum International Publishing Group.
French, Steven and Saatsi, Juha. 2011b. “Introduction.” in The Continuum Companion to the Philosophy of Science, edited by Steven French and Juha Saatsi, pp. 1–14. London: Continuum International Publishing Group.
French, Steven and Saatsi, Juha. 2011c. “Travelling in New Directions.” in The Continuum Companion to the Philosophy of Science, edited by Steven French and Juha Saatsi, pp. 337–358. London: Continuum International Publishing Group.
French, Steven and Saatsi, Juha. 2018. “Symmetries and Explanatory Dependencies in Physics.” in Explanation Beyond Causation. Philosophical Perspectives on Non-Causal Explanations, edited by Alexander Reutlinger and Juha Saatsi, pp. 185–205. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780198777946.001.0001.
French, Steven and Saatsi, Juha, eds. 2020a. Scientific Realism and the Quantum. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780198814979.001.0001.
French, Steven and Saatsi, Juha. 2020b. “Introduction.” in Scientific Realism and the Quantum, edited by Steven French and Juha Saatsi, pp. 1–18. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780198814979.001.0001.
Krause, Décio and French, Steven. 2007. “Quantum Sortal Predicates.” Synthese 154(3): 417–430.
Rickles, Dean P. and French, Steven. 2006. “Quantum Gravity Meets Structuralism: Interweaving Relations in the Foundations of Physics.” in The Structural Foundations of Quantum Gravity, edited by Dean P. Rickles, Steven French, and Juha Saatsi, pp. 1–38. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199269693.001.0001.
Rickles, Dean P., French, Steven and Saatsi, Juha, eds. 2006. The Structural Foundations of Quantum Gravity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199269693.001.0001.

Further References

Falkenburg, Brigitte. 2007. Particle Metaphysics. A Critical Account of Subatomic Reality. Berlin: Springer.
Gavroglu, Kostas. 1995. Fritz London: A Scientific Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Horgan, Terence E. and Potrč, Matjaž. 2008. Austere Realism: Contextual Semantics Meets Minimal Ontology. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, doi:10.7551/mitpress/9780262083768.001.0001.