This book seeks to work out which commitments are minimally sufficient to obtain an
ontology of the natural world that matches all of today's well-established physical theories …

What are physical quantities, and in particular, what makes them quantitative? This book
articulates and defends an original answer to this important, insufficiently understood …

Within quantum chemistry, the electron clouds that surround nuclei in atoms and molecules
are sometimes treated as clouds of probability and sometimes as clouds of charge. These …

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 …

Absolutism about mass within Newtonian gravity claims that mass ratios obtain in virtue of
absolute masses. Comparativism denies this. Defenders of comparativism promise to …

How may we characterize the intrinsic structure of physical quantities such as mass, length,
or electric charge? This article shows that group-theoretic methods—specifically, the notion …

According to the doctrine of Super-Humeanism (Esfeld in Synthese. https://doi.
org/10.1007/s11229-017-1426-8, 2017), the world's mosaic consists only of permanent …

Absolutism about mass claims that mass ratios obtain in virtue of absolute masses.
Comparativism denies this. Dasgupta (in: Bennett, Zimmerman (eds), Oxford studies in …

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 …

This dissertation draws upon historical studies of scientific practice and contemporary issues
in the metaphysics and epistemology of science to account for the nature of physical …