Current projects.

The aesthetics of scientific experiments.

This project assesses the relationship between scientific experiments and works of art and the role of aesthetic considerations in design, process, and analysis of experiments... [read more]

Work & well-being in science.

I am a collaborator on the Work & Well-Being in Science project, where we are analysing empirical data on aesthetic experiences in the lab. 

Understand progress in science and beyond.

As part of this project I explored the role of aesthetic values in science and how this role will change as science is becoming more automated. 

List of publications.

Books.

• 2023. The Aesthetics of Scientific Experiments. Edited with Alice Murphy. Routledge.
• 2021. Duhem and Holism. Cambridge Elements: Cambridge University Press.​
• 2020. The Aesthetics of Science: Beauty, Imagination and Understanding. Edited with Steven French. Routledge. Press release.

Research Articles.

• 2023. What is a beautiful experiment? Erkenntnis.
• 2021. The Aesthetics of Scientific Experiments. Philosophy Compass.
• 2021. First principles in science—their status and justification. Synthese. [With C. Herfeld.]
• 2020. Reflections on the reception of Jean Perrin’s experiments by his contemporaries. HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science.
• 2017. Aesthetic Values in Science. Philosophy Compass. Preprint.
• 2017. Poincaré's Aesthetics of Science. Synthese. Preprint.
• 2017. Virtues and Vices in Scientific Practice. Synthese. [With C. Paternotte.]
• 2015. Conventionalism about what? Where Duhem and Poincaré part ways. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Preprint.
• 2015. Conventionalism, structuralism and neo-Kantianism in Poincaré׳s philosophy of science. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. Preprint.
• 2015. Conventional Principles in Science: On the foundations and development of the relativized a priori. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. [With M. Farr.] Preprint.
• 2013. Theory Choice, Good Sense and Social Consensus. Erkenntnis. [With C. Paternotte.] Preprint.
• 2013. Did Perrin's Experiments Convert Poincaré to Scientific Realism?. HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science. Preprint.
• 2011. ‘Good Sense’ in Context: A Response to Kidd. Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science.
• 2011. Friedman's Relativized A Priori and Structural Realism: In Search of Compatibility. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Preprint.
• 2010. Pierre Duhem’s Good Sense as a Guide to Theory Choice. Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science. Preprint.

Book Chapters.

• Forthcoming. Scientific Progress and Aesthetic Values. In New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress, Routledge, ed. Yafeng Shan.
• Forthcoming. Theory Virtues and Acceptance. In Lauener Series in Philosophy dedicated to Bas van Fraassen’s contribution to philosophy of science, ed. Michael Frauchiger.
• 2020. Beauty, Truth and Understanding. The Aesthetics of Science: Beauty, Imagination and Understanding, ed. Steven French and Milena Ivanova.
• 2020. Henri Poincaré. Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Philosophers. Preprint.
• 2020. Methods in Science and Metaphysics. [With M. Farr.] Routledge Handbook of Metametaphysics, ed. James Miller and Ricki Bliss.

• 2014. Is There a Place for Epistemic Virtues in Theory Choice? In Virtue Scientia: Bridges Between Virtue Epistemology and Philosophy of Science (Ed. Abrol Fairweather), Synthese Library.

Reviews.

• 2017. David Stump’s Conceptual Change and the Philosophy of Science: Alternative Interpretations of the A Priori. HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science.
• 2014. John Wright's Explaining Science's Success. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science.
• 2013. Steven French and Juha Saatsi's Continuum Companion to the Philosophy of Science. Science and Education.

Popular Writing.

• 2022. James Webb images were made to look beautiful. Institute for Arts and Ideas.
• 2022. The beauty of experiments matters. Institute of Art and Ideas.
• 2021. The beautiful experiment. Aeon magazine.
• 2015. Aesthetics in science. Auxiliary Hypotheses (Blog of the British Society for Philosophy of Science).

Edited Collections.

• 2021. First Principles in Science. Special issue of Synthese. [With C. Herfeld]
• 2015. Conventional Principles in Science: On the foundations and development of the relativized a priori. Special issue of Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. [With M. Farr]

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