Steven French - Selected Publications#

Books

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

Applying Mathematics: Immersion, Inference, Interpretation, with O. Bueno; OUP, 2018.

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

Chapters

‘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, pp. 205-226, 2020.

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

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

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

Papers

‘The Value of Surprise in Science’, with Alice Murphy, Erkenntnis 2021 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-021-00410-z)

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

‘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.

Metrics

h-index: 42
i10-index: 94

Critical reviews

N. Dewar (2020), Review of There Are No Such Things As Theories, Mind https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzab003

C. Pincock, S. Lutz and F. Dellsén (2021), Symposium review of There Are No Such Things As Theories, Metascience 30, pp. 3-29.

H. Halvorson (2021), Review of There Are No Such Things As Theories, Journal for General Philosophy of Science https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10838-021-09573-3

H.K. Sørensen (2021), Review of Applying Mathematics, Metascience 30, pp. 231-234

A. Kasirzadeh and J.R. Brown (2020), Review of Applying Mathematics, Philosophy of Science 87, pp. 207-211

A. Peressini (2019), Review of Applying Mathematics, Philosophia Mathematica 28, pp. 116-127

S. Psillos, M. Dorato and E. Landry, (2016) Symposium review of The Structure of the World, Metascience 25, pp. 163-196.