The Metaphysical Unity of Science

Project Information

MetaScience

Grant agreement ID: 771509

DOI

10.3030/771509

Project closed

EC signature date 2 August 2018

Start date 1 September 2018

End date 31 August 2023

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 995 304,00

EU contribution

€ 1 995 304,00

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UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL
United Kingdom

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (28)

The strong emergence of molecular structure

Author(s): Vanessa A. Seifert
Published in: European Journal for Philosophy of Science, Issue 10/3, 2020, ISSN 1879-4912
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s13194-020-00308-7

Can Multiple Realisation be Explained?

Author(s): Alexander Franklin
Published in: Philosophy, Issue 96/1, 2021, Page(s) 27-48, ISSN 0031-8191
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0031819120000285

Second-order relations and nomic regularities

Author(s): Toby Friend
Published in: Philosophical Studies, Issue 179: 10, 2022, Page(s) 3089–3107, ISSN 0031-8116
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s11098-022-01854-x

Natural kinds, mind-independence, and unification principles

Author(s): Tuomas E. Tahko
Published in: Synthese, Issue 200:144, 2022, Page(s) 1-23, ISSN 0039-7857
Publisher: D. Reidel Pub. Co.
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-022-03661-7

The modal basis of scientific modelling

Author(s): Tuomas E. Tahko
Published in: Synthese, Issue 201, Article number: 75, 2023, ISSN 0039-7857
Publisher: D. Reidel Pub. Co.
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-023-04063-z

The emergence of the postgenomic gene

Author(s): Francesca Bellazzi
Published in: European Journal for Philosophy of Science, Issue 12:17, 2022, Page(s) 1-21, ISSN 1879-4912
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s13194-022-00446-0

On Powers BSAs

Author(s): Toby Friend
Published in: The Philosophical Quarterly, Issue Volume 73, Issue 2, 2023, Page(s) Pages 452–475, ISSN 0031-8094
Publisher: Basil Blackwell
DOI: 10.1093/pq/pqac045

Reconsidering the Dispositional Essentialist Canon

Author(s): Samuel Kimpton-Nye
Published in: Philosophical Studies, 2021, ISSN 0031-8116
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s11098-021-01607-2

The Problem of Molecular Structure Just Is The Measurement Problem

Author(s): Alexander Franklin, Vanessa Angela Seifert
Published in: The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2021, ISSN 0007-0882
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1086/715148

Possibility Precedes Actuality

Author(s): Tuomas E. Tahko
Published in: Erkenntnis, 2022, Page(s) 1-21, ISSN 0165-0106
Publisher: Reidel
DOI: 10.1007/s10670-022-00518-w

Laws of Nature:Necessary and Contingent

Author(s): Samuel Kimpton-Nye
Published in: The Philosophical Quarterly, Issue vol. 72 , no. 4, 2022, Page(s) 875-895, ISSN 0031-8094
Publisher: Basil Blackwell
DOI: 10.1093/pq/pqab062

Pandispositionalism and the metaphysics of powers

Author(s): Samuel Kimpton-Nye
Published in: Synthese, Issue 200: 371, 2022, Page(s) 1-21, ISSN 0039-7857
Publisher: D. Reidel Pub. Co.
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-022-03857-x

Why I'm not a Humean

Author(s): Toby Friend
Published in: Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2021, Page(s) 1-23, ISSN 0279-0750
Publisher: University of Southern California
DOI: 10.1111/papq.12398

The Chemical Bond is a Real Pattern

Author(s): Vanessa Seifert
Published in: Philosophy of Science, 2022, ISSN 0031-8248
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.1017/psa.2022.17

Bundle Theory with Kinds

Author(s): Markku Keinänen, Tuomas E Tahko
Published in: The Philosophical Quarterly, Issue 69/277, 2019, Page(s) 838-857, ISSN 0031-8094
Publisher: Basil Blackwell
DOI: 10.1093/pq/pqz021

Where Do You Get Your Protein? Or: Biochemical Realization

Author(s): Tuomas E Tahko
Published in: The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2019, ISSN 0007-0882
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/bjps/axy044

The role of idealisations in describing an isolated molecule

Author(s): Vanessa A. Seifert
Published in: Foundations of Chemistry, 2019, ISSN 1386-4238
Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10698-019-09342-7

Biochemical functions

Author(s): Francesca Bellazzi
Published in: The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2022, ISSN 0007-0882
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1086/723241

The Humean pragmatic turn and the case for revisionary best systems accounts

Author(s): Toby Friend
Published in: European Journal for Philosophy of Science, Issue 12:11, 2022, Page(s) 1-26, ISSN 1879-4912
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s13194-021-00436-8

How to be Humean about idealisation laws

Author(s): Toby Friend
Published in: Philosophy of Science, Issue Volume 90, Issue 1, January 2023, 2023, Page(s) 150-170, ISSN 0031-8248
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.1017/psa.2022.12

Intervening on time derivatives

Author(s): Toby Friend
Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, Issue 89, 2021, Page(s) 74-83, ISSN 0039-3681
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2021.07.005

Biological Individuality and the Foetus Problem

Author(s): William Morgan
Published in: Erkenntnis, 2022, Page(s) 1-18, ISSN 0165-0106
Publisher: Reidel
DOI: 10.1007/s10670-022-00556-4

How to be a powers theorist about functional laws, conservation laws and symmetries

Author(s): Samuel Kimpton-Nye
Published in: Philosophical Studies, 2022, Page(s) 1-16, ISSN 0031-8116
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s11098-022-01903-5

The Role of A Priori Belief in the Design and Analysis of Fault-Tolerant Distributed Systems

Author(s): Giorgio Cignarale; Ulrich Schmid; Tuomas Tahko; Roman Kuznets
Published in: Minds & Machines, Issue 33, 2023, Page(s) 293–319, ISSN 0924-6495
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s11023-023-09631-3

Megarian Variable Actualism

Author(s): Toby Friend
Published in: Synthese, 2021, ISSN 0039-7857
Publisher: D. Reidel Pub. Co.
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-021-03257-7

COVID-19 Vaccines and the Virtues

Author(s): Konrad v Boyneburgk, Francesca Bellazzi
Published in: Public Health Ethics, Issue 15, 2023, Page(s) 209-219, ISSN 1754-9973
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/phe/phac027

COVID-19 calls for virtue ethics

Author(s): Francesca Bellazzi, Konrad v Boyneburgk
Published in: Journal of Law and the Biosciences, Issue 7/1, 2020, ISSN 2053-9711
Publisher: Oxford University Press and Harvard, Duke and Stanford Law Schools
DOI: 10.1093/jlb/lsaa056

How to be Humean about symmetries

Author(s): Toby Thomas Friend
Published in: The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2021, ISSN 0007-0882
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1086/716924

Non-peer reviewed articles (2)

The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism

Author(s): Samuel Kimpton-Nye
Published in: The Philosophical Quarterly, Issue 71/2, 2020, Page(s) 444-447, ISSN 0031-8094
Publisher: Basil Blackwell
DOI: 10.1093/pq/pqaa043

The Metaphysics of Quantities

Author(s): Toby Friend
Published in: The Philosophical Quarterly, 2021, ISSN 0031-8094
Publisher: Basil Blackwell
DOI: 10.1093/pq/pqab025

Monographic books (2)

Unity of Science

Author(s): Tuomas E. Tahko
Published in: Elements in Philosophy of Science, 2021, ISBN 9781108581417
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/9781108581417

Dispositions and Powers

Author(s): Toby Friend, Samuel Kimpton-Nye
Published in: Cambridge Elements in Metaphysics, 2023, ISBN 9781009118910
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/9781009118910

Other (1)

Reduction and Emergence in Chemistry

Author(s): Vanessa A. Seifert
Published in: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2019, ISSN 2161-0002
Publisher: The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy