Steven French - Curriculum Vitae#

BOOKS

There Are No Such Things as Theories; OUP, 2020.

The Aesthetics of Science: Beauty, Imagination and Understanding, with M. Ivanova (eds.); Routledge, 2020.

Scientific Realism and the Quantum, with J. Saatsi (eds); OUP, 2020.

Applying Mathematics: Immersion, Inference, Interpretation, with O. Bueno; Oxford University Press, 2018.

Thinking About Science, Reflecting on Art: Bringing Aesthetics and Philosophy of Science Together, ed. with O. Bueno, G. Darby and D. Rickles; Routledge, 2017.

Philosophy of Science: Key Concepts, Bloomsbury Academic , 2016 (2nd ed. of Science: Key Concepts in Philosophy, updated and with new ch. on explanation).

The Structure of the World: Metaphysics and Representation. Oxford University Press, 2014 (pbk 2016).



PARTS OF BOOKS

‘From a Lost History to a New Future: Is a Phenomenological Approach to Quantum Mechanics Viable?’, in H. Wiltsche and P. Berghofer (eds.), Phenomenological Approaches to Physics, Springer, 205-226, 2020.

‘Doing Away with Dispositions’, in A. Meinke (ed.), Dispositionalism. Perspectives from Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science, Springer Synthese Library, Springer, 189-212, 2020.

‘Performance and Practice: Situating the Aesthetic Qualities of Theories’, in S. French and M. Ivanova (eds), The Aesthetics of Science:Beauty, Imagination and Understanding; Routledge 186-210, 2020.

‘Structural Realism and the Standard Model’, in A. Cordero (ed.), Philosophers Look at Quantum Mechanics, International Ontology Congress, 163-178, 2019.

‘There Are No Such Things as Ordinary Objects’ in J. Cumpa and B. Brewer (eds.), The Nature of Ordinary Objects, Cambridge University Press, 260-273, 2019.

‘Symmetries and Explanatory Dependencies’, with Juha Saatsi, in J. Saatsi and A. Reutlinger (eds.), Explanation Beyond Causation, Oxford University Press,185-205, 2018.



PAPERS

‘Imagination in Scientific Practice’, The European Journal for the Philosophy of Science 10: 27, 2020.

‘Defending Eliminative Structuralism and a Whole Lot More (or Less)’ Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 74, pp. 22-29, 2019.

‘Toying with the Toolbox: How Metaphysics Can Still Make a Contribution’, Journal of General Philosophy of Science (with commentary by B. Vetter) 49, pp. 211-230, 2018.

‘Identity Conditions, Idealisations and Isomorphisms: A Defence of the Semantic Approach’; Synthese 2017 (DOI 10.1007/s11229-017-1564-z)



OTHER RESEARCH RELATED ACTIVITIES (Recent)

Co-Editor-in-Chief of British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 2011-2020

Series editor of New Directions in Philosophy of Science, Palgrave-Macmillan 2010-2020