This paper concerns the recent revival of entity realism. Having been started with the work of
Ian Hacking, Nancy Cartwright, and Ronald Giere, the project of entity realism has recently …

The characteristic–Planck–energy scale of quantum gravity makes experimental access to
the relevant physics apparently impossible. Nevertheless, low energy experiments linking …

The philosophy of the geosciences is an emerging subfield in philosophy of science.
Although past and present geoscientific disciplines differ substantially, we argue that they …

Résumé Philosophes et scientifiques ont souvent adopté la version orthodoxe de
l'étalonnage qui consiste à normaliser un instrument en utilisant un phénomène connu. Le …

This paper examines the opportunities and pitfalls of theory-mediated measurement in
astrophysics. I locate the main danger not in the use of models of the target phenomena, but …