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| Books | 2007 | Reductionism in the philosophy of science. Frankfurt (Main): Ontos-Verlag. Link Review by Ingo Brigandt, University of Alberta (USA) Link (preferred part: "the whole book reads like an extended parody of analytic philosophy and its style") |
2010 | Kausale Strukturen. Together with Michael Esfeld. Frankfurt (Main): Suhrkamp-Verlag. Link Review by Matthias Neuber, University of Tübingen (Germany) Link |
2011 | Conservative reductionism. Together with Michael Esfeld. New York / London: Routledge. Link Review by Clifford Hooker, University of Newcastle (Australia) Link |
2011 | Philosophie de la biologie. Enjeux et perspectives. Lausanne: Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes. Link PPUR Interview Youtube (3min) Link RSR Espace 2: émission "Babylone" (20.1.2012) Interview: Philippe Zibung (20min) Link Interview |
project | Book project on the philosophy of mind. Together with Michael Esfeld. |
| Articles | 2005 | “Argumente für eine Typenidentität von Eigenschaften” In: Günter Abel (ed.): Kreativität. XX. Deutscher Kongress für Philosophie. Sektionsbeiträge (Berlin: Verlag der TU Berlin 2005); volume 2, Pp. 287-297. pdf |
| 2005 | “Reduction of biological properties by means of functional sub-types” History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 27, Pp. 435-449. Link pdf |
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| 2006 | “Intertheoretic deduction of explanations” In: Michael Esfeld (ed.): John Heil. Symposium on his ontological point of view, Frankfurt (Main): Ontos-Verlag 2006, Pp. 91-107. Link pdf |
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| 2007 | “Theory reduction by means of functional sub-types”. Together with Michael Esfeld. International Studies in the Philosophy of Sciences, 21 (1), Pp. 1-17. Link pdf |
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| 2007 | “La philosophie comme réflexion sur les sciences” Studia Philosophica, 66, Pp. 79-92. pdf |
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| 2007 | Commentaire sur Terry Horgan: “Mental causation and the agent-exclusion problem” Erkenntnis 67 (2), Pp. 201-205. Link pdf |
2008 | “Scientific pragmatic abstraction” In the proceedings of the 31. Internationales Witgenstein Symposium on “Reduktion und Elimination” (Kirchberg: August 2008). pdf |
2008 | “Wissenschaftliche Qualität von pragmatischen Abstraktionen der Biologie” In the proceedings of the XXI. Deutschen Kongress der Philosophie, DGPhil (Essen-Duisburg: September 2008). pdf |
2009 | “L'autonomie des sciences spéciales reconsidérée”. Together with Patrice Soom. In: Patrick Ducray (ed.): Actualité de la philosophie analytique, 13, pp. 69-105. (Klesis. Revue philosophique). Link pdf |
2010 | “Psycho-neural reduction through functional sub-types”. Together with Patrice Soom and Michael Esfeld. Journal of Consciousness Studies 17, pp. 7-26. Link pdf |
2010-11 | “Conservative reduction of biology” Philosophia Naturalis 47-48 (1), pp. 33-65. Link pdf |
2011 | “Identität statt Emergenz. Plädoyer für einen konservativen Reduktionismus”. Together with Michael Esfeld. In: Jens Greve and Annette Schnabel (eds): Emergenz. Zur Analyse und Erklärung komplexer Strukturen, Berlin: Suhrkamp-Verlag, pp. 84-110. Link |
2011 | "Biological laws and kinds within a conservative reductionist framework" In: D. Dieks, W. J. Gonzales, S. Hartmann, M. Stoeltzner and M. Weber (eds): Probabilities, laws, and structures. Doordrecht: Springer, pp. 241-254. Link pdf |
Forthcoming | "Marrying the merits of Nagelian reduction and functional reduction" Together with Michael Esfeld and Patrice Soom. In: Acta Analytica. DOI 10.1007/s12136-011-0130-4 Link pdf |
| Reviews | 2006 | Jaegwon Kim: Physicalism, or something near enough (Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2005, 200 pages) Dialectica, 60, Pp. 508-512. Link pdf |
| 2007 | Hans-Jörg Rheinberger: Epistemologie des Konkreten. Studien zur Geschichte der modernen Biologie (Frankfurt/Main: suhrkamp taschenbuch wissenschaft, 2006, 415 pages) History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 29 (2), Pp. 242-244. Link pdf |