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Jul 3, 2013 · Stephen French’s 10-year campaign to portray himself as a reformed gangster and born- again Christian today lay in tatters as he was locked up over a dramatic city centre gun showdown.
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A Phenomenological Approach to Quantum Mechanics: Cutting the Chain of Correlations, Oxford University Press, forthcoming. There Are No Such Things as Theories; Oxford University Press, 2020. (Arabic translation forthcoming) The Aesthetics of Science: Beauty, Imagination and Understanding, with M. Ivanova (eds.); Routledge, 2020. Scientific Realism...
‘What is This Thing Called Structure?’, forthcoming in F.A. Muller (ed.), The Structure of Reality, The Reality of Structure, Springer, 2024. ‘Quasi-Structural Realism’, forthcoming in J.R. Becker and R. W. Arroyo (eds.), Non-Reflexive Logics, Non-Individuals and the Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics, Springer, 2023. ‘Representation and Realism: On B...
‘A Neo-Kantian Approach to the Standard Model’, (in preparation). ‘Does the claim that there are no theories imply that there is no history of theories to be written?(!)’, Journal for General Philosophy of Science, forthcoming. ‘What is a Naturalized Principle of Composition?’, with F. Ceravolo, The American Philosophical Quarterly 60: pp. 21-36, 2...
PhD (University of London)BSc (University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne)British Society for the Philosophy of SciencePhilosophy of Science AssociationHistory and Philosophy of SciencePhilosophyCentre for History and Philosophy of ScienceCentre for Metaphysics and MindAug 25, 2021 · Steven French is a leading member of the third-wave of philosophers of science—i.e. those who grew up with the semantic view, and applied it to discussions of the foundations of specific sciences, as well as to discussions of general issues about the ontology and epistemology of science.
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In The Structure of the World, Steven French articulates and defends the bold claim that there are no objects. At the most fundamental level, modern physics presents us with a world of...
Oct 16, 2023 · But an influential, though widely misunderstood, interpretation of quantum mechanics by physicists Fritz London and Edmund Bauer, places the subject at the heart of our most successful mathematical physics theory yet, writes Steven French.
- Steven French
Steven French is a leading member of the third-wave of philosophers of science—i.e. those who grew up with the semantic view, and applied it to discussions of the foundations of specific sciences, as well as to discussions of general issues about the ontology and epis-temology of science.
Oct 26, 2021 · Steven French’s new book is a bold and ambitious look at the question of what sorts of things scientific theories are—or rather, what they are not. For the purposes of this review, I’ll treat the book as divided into four parts, although many themes and ideas recur and re-emerge throughout.
