How is it that the basic structures of space and time come to manifest themselves in physical
theories and theorising, and in our empirical experience of the world? This question is …

The aim of this thesis is to extend the success of a novel strategy for the interpretation of
symmetry-related models—sophistication—to contemporary physical theories' internal …

Physics presents us with a symphony of natural constants: to settle a debate over whether
mass scalings are symmetries of Newtonian gravitation. I argue that they are not, but only if …

It is a widely-held belief that (the values of) physical quantities are part of a theory's ideology.
For example, it seems that special relativity has an ontology of spacetime points and …

Dimensional quantities such as length, mass and charge, ie, numbers combined with a
conventional unit, are essential components of theories in the sciences, especially physics …

In this paper a symmetry argument against quantity absolutism is amended. Rather than
arguing against the fundamentality of intrinsic quantities on the basis of transformations of …

This paper presents a novel sense in which theoretical structure has been preserved across
the transition from classical to quantum physics. I import mathematical tools from category …

This chapter focuses on the question of quantitativeness–of identifying the feature that
makes quantitative properties quantitative. The chapter begins with two traditional attempts …

Physics presents us with a symphony of natural constants: G, h, c, etc. Up to this point,
constants have received comparatively little philosophical attention. In this paper I provide …