INDUCTIVE METAPHYSICS
  • Subprojects 2017-2020
    • A1: The Research Programme of Inductive Metaphysics from Gustav Theodor Fechner to Erich Becher and beyond
    • A2: Creative Abductive Inference and Its Role for Inductive Metaphysics in Comparison to Other Metaphysical Methods
    • A4: Kant and Inductive Methods in 18th Century Metaphysics
    • B1: Modality in Physics and in Metaphysics
    • B2: Properties and Property Individuation
    • B4: Determinism, Control, and the Consequence Argument
    • B5: Statistical Causation, Intervention, and Freedom
  • Subprojects 2020-2023
    • A1: Inductive Metaphysics and Logical Empiricism
    • A2: Creative Abductive Inference and its Role for Inductive Metaphysics
    • A4: Inductive Methods in Kant and Neo-Kantianism
    • B6: The Role of Inference to the best explanation in the discovery of Gravitational Waves
    • B7: Graded Causation
    • B8: The Time of science and the time of our lives
    • B9: Complex biological dispositions: a case study in the metaphysics of biological practice
    • B10: Metaphysics of Evolution: justification and ontology of generalized evolution theory
    • B11: Abductive Methodology in the philosophy of logic
  • Events
    • Abduction in Philosophy of Mind
    • Mental Disorders and Modal Properties
    • Inductive Metaphysics: Insights, Challenges and Prospects
    • Non-Reductionism in the Metaphysics of Mind
    • Essences, Dispositions and Laws in Kant
    • The Methodology of Logic: Abductivist and Non-abductivist Approaches
    • Grounding and the Direction of Explanation
    • Wochenendseminar zur Philosophie der Physik
    • Dispositions in the Life-Sciences Contemporary and Historical Perspectives
    • New Work on Induction and Abduction
    • Compatibilist Libertarianism: Advantages and Challenges
    • Metaphysics as Modelling. Contemporary and Kantian Issues
    • Laws and Explanations in Metaphysics and Science
    • Causation and Responsibility
    • Thinking About the Cultural Evolution of Thinking
    • Causal Distinctions: Specificity and Beyond
    • Free Will and Causality
    • Epistemic Engineering
    • Counterpossibles, Counternomics and Causal Theories of Properties
    • The Possibility of Metaphysics
    • Abduction and Modelling in Metaphysics
    • Kant's Concepts of Metaphysics
    • Freedom and Determinism
    • What Do We Do When We Do Metaphysics?
    • Properties and Laws in the Light of Inductive Metaphysics
    • Free Will and Laws of Nature
    • Traditional and Inductive Metaphysics
    • Spacetime: Fundamental or Emergent?
  • People
  • Research
    • Publications
    • Talks
  • Contact

Publications

A1: Inductive Metaphysics and Logical Empiricism
  • Engelhard, K., Feldbacher-Escamilla, C. J., Gebharter, A., Seide, A. (eds.) (2021): Inductive Metaphysics (special issue), Grazer Philosophische Studien 98 (1).
  • Engelhard, K., Feldbacher-Escamilla, C. J., Gebharter, A., Seide, A. (2021): Inductive Metaphysics. Editors’ Introduction, in: Grazer Philosophische Studien 98 (1), 1–26.
  • Scholz, O. R. (in press): Induktive Metaphysik – ein vergessenes Kapitel der Metaphysikgeschichte, in: Hommen, D., Sölch, D. (eds.): Philosophische Sprache zwischen Tradition und Innovation (Festschrift für Christoph Kann), Frankfurt a. M.: Peter Lang
  • Scholz, O. R. (2018): Inductive Social Metaphysics – A Defence of Inference to the Best Explanation in the Metaphysics of Social Reality: Comments on Katherine Hawley,  Journal for General Philosophy of Science 49, 199–210 (doi.org/10.1007/s10838-018-9399-y).
  • Seide, A. (forthcoming): Points of Convergence between Logical Empiricism and Inductive Metaphysics – Hans Reichenbach and Erich Becher in Comparison, erscheint in: Synthese.
  • Seide, A. (forthcoming): Johann Gottlieb Fichtes Auseinandersetzung mit der Idee einer induktiven Metaphysik im ersten Buch von Die Bestimmung des Menschen, in: Methodus. International Journal for Modern Philosophy.
  • Seide, A. (forthcoming): Kant on Perceptions, Synthesis, and Intentionality in the Second Analogy of Experience, in: Serck-Hanssen, Camilla / Himmelmann, Beatrix (ed): The Court of Reason – Proceedings of the 13th International Kant Congress, Berlin & Boston: de Gruyter.
  • Seide, A. (forthcoming): Wilhelm Wundts Logik als Auftakt zu einer induktiven Metaphysik, in: Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung.
  • Seide, A (2021): Analogical Inference in Gustav Theodor Fechner’s Inductive Metaphysics, in: Grazer Philosophische Studien 98 (1), 186–202.
  • Seide, A. (2020): Die Notwendigkeit empirischer Naturgesetze bei Kant, Berlin & Boston: de Gruyter.
  • Seide, A. (2020): Theodizee und Atheismus – Norbert Hoersters Argumenta¬tion gegen die Existenz Gottes, in: Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung 74 (1), 141–154.
  • Seide, A. (2018): Empirische Naturgesetze und die Kurzsichtigkeit des Verstandes, in: Waibel, Violetta L. / Ruffing, Margit / Wagner, David (ed.): Natur und Freiheit – Akten des XII. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, Berlin & Boston: de Gruyter, 1545–1552.
  • Seide, A. (2017): How the Understanding Prescribes Form without Prescribing Content – Kant on Empirical Laws in the Second Analogy of Experience, in: Kant Yearbook 9, 133–157.


A2: Creative Abductive Inference and Its Role for Inductive Metaphysics in Comparison to Other Metaphysical Methods
  • Engelhard, K., Göhner, J. F., Schrenk, M. (eds.) (2018): Meta2physics: New Perspectives on Analytic and Naturalised Metaphysics of Science, Special Issue of the Journal for General Philosophy of Science 49(2).
  • Feldbacher-Escamilla, C. J. (2022): Meta-Abduction: Inference to the Probabilistically Best Prediction. In: Björn Lundgren & Nancy Abigail Nuñez Hernández (Ed.): Philosophy of Computing. Springer. pp.51-71. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-75267-5_2.
  • Feldbacher-Escamilla, C. J. (2021): Carnap's Conditions of Adequacy for Explications and Conceptual Engineering. In: Logique et Analyse 256.1, pp.487-509. dot: 10.2143/LEA.256.0.3290355.
  • Feldbacher-Escamilla, C. J. & Baraghith, Karim (2020): Cultural Inheritance in Generalized Darwinism. In: Philosophy of Science 87.2, pp.237-261. doi: 10.1086/707564.
  • Feldbacher-Escamilla, C. J. & Gebharter, Alexander (2020): Confirmation Based on Analogical Inference. Bayes meets Jeffrey. In: Canadian Journal of Philosophy 50.2, pp.174-194. doi: 10.1017/can.2019.18.
  • Feldbacher-Escamilla, C. J. & Schurz, Gerhard (2020): Optimal Probability Aggregation Based on Generalized Brier Scoring. In: Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence 88, pp. 717-734. doi: 10.1007/s10472-019-09648-4.
  • Feldbacher-Escamilla, C. J. (2019): Newtons Methodologie. Eine Kritik an Duhem, Feyerabend und Lakatos, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 101.4, pp.584-615. doi: 10.1515/agph-2019-4004.
  • Feldbacher-Escamilla, C. J. and Gebharter, A. (2019): Modeling Creative Abduction Bayesian Style, European Journal for Philosophy of Science. (DOI 10.1007/s13194-018-0234-4)
  • Hicks, M., Jaag, S. & Loew, Ch. (eds.) (under contract): Humean laws for human agents. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Jaag, S. (forthcoming): A puzzle about laws and explanation, Synthese.
  • Jaag, S. & Loew, Ch. (2020): Why defend Humean Supervenience? The Journal of Philosophy 117(7), 387-406.
  • Jaag, S., Loew, C. (2020): Making Best Systems Best for us, Synthese, 197: 2525-2550 . (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-018-1829-1 ).
  • Jaag, S., Schrenk, M. (2020): Naturgesetze, Berlin: De Gruyter.
  • Schippers, M., Schurz, G. (2018): Genuine Confirmation and Tacking by Conjunction, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axy005).
  • Schrenk, M. (ed.) (2017): Handbuch Metaphysik, Stuttgart, Weimar: Metzler.
  • Schrenk, M. (2017): The Emergence of Better Best System Laws, Journal for General Philosophy of Science 48(3), 469–483. (DOI 10.1007/s10838-017-9374-z)
  • Schurz, G. (forthcoming): "Theory-generating Abduction and Its Justification", appears in: L. Magnani (ed.), Handbook of Abductive Cognition, Cham, Springer.
  • Schurz, G. (2021): "Why Classical Logic is Privileged: Justification of Logics Based On Translatability", Synthese 199, 2021, 13067–13094 (Part of the topical collection Anti-Exceptionalism about Logic, edited by Ben Martin, Maria Paola Sforza Fogliani, and Filippo Ferrari).
  • Schurz, G. (2021): "Optimality Justifications and the Optimality Principle: New Tools for Foundation-Theoretic Epistemology", Nous 2021, Online: https://doi.org/10.1111/nous.12390
  • Schurz, G. (2021): "Probabilistic Truthlikeness, Content Elements, and Meta-Inductive Probability Optimization", Synthese 199, 2021, 6009–6037.
  • Schurz, G. (2021): Abduction as a Method of Inductive Metaphysics. Grazer Philosophische Studien 98(1), 50-74.
  • Schurz, G. (2019): Hume's Problem Solved: The Optimality of Meta-Induction, MIT Press, Cambridge/M.
  • Schurz, G. (2017): Schluss auf die beste Erklärung, in: M. Schrenk (ed.): Handbuch Metaphysik, Stuttgart, Weimar: Metzler, 416–422.
  • Schurz, G. (2017): Patterns of Abductive Inference, in: L. Magnani and T. Bertolotti (eds.): Springer Handbook of Model-Based Science, Dordrecht: Springer, 51-173
  • Schurz, G. (2016): Common Cause Abduction: The Formation of Theoretical Concepts and Models in Science, Logic Journal of the IGPL 24(4), 494–509.
  • Sekatskaya, M. (2021): Androids, Oracles and Free Will, Kriterion – Journal of Philosophy. Advance online publication, doi:10.1515/krt-2021-0010
  • Sekatskaya, M. (2020): Free Will, Control, and the Possibility to Do Otherwise from a Causal Modeler’s Perspective (with Alexander Gebharter (1st author) and Gerhard Schurz), Erkenntnis. Advance online publication. doi:10.1007/s10670-020-00281-w.
  • Sekatskaya, M., and Schurz, G. (2022): Alternative Possibilities and the Meaning of 'Can', forthcoming in Dialectica.


A4: Inductive Methods in Kant and Neo-Kantianism
  • Engelhard, K. (2021): Inductive Metaphysics in Christian Wolff’s German Metaphysics In: Inductive Metaphysics: Contemporary and Historical Issues. Special Issue of Grazer Philosophische Studien, 98,1 (ed. by K. Engelhard, C. Feldbacher-Escarmilla, A. Gebharter, A. Seide).
  • Engelhard, K., Feldbacher-Escamilla, C. J., Gebharter, A., Seide, A. (eds.) (2021): Inductive Metaphysics. Contemporary and Historical Issues (Special Issue of Grazer Philosophische Studien 98(1)).
  • Engelhard, K. (2017): "Dispositionale undkategorische Eigenschaften", in: M. Schrenk (ed.): Handbuch Metaphysik, Stuttgart, Weimar: Metzler, 110-116.
  • Engelhard, K., Göhner, J. F., Schrenk, M. (eds.) (2018): Meta2physics: New Perspectives on Analytic and Naturalised Metaphysics of Science, Special Issue of the Journal for General Philosophy of Science 49(2).
  • Engelhard, K. (2018): "The Problem of Grounding Natural Modality in Kant’s Account of Empirical Laws of Nature", in: De Bianchi, S., Kraus, K. (eds.): New Perspectives on Kant and the Sciences, Special issue of the Studies in History and Philosophy of Science  (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0039368117300237).
  • Falkenburg, Brigitte (2021): Edgar Wind on Experiment and Metaphysics. In: Journal of Transcendental Philosophy 2021. Published online April 26, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1515/jtph-2020-0038
  • Falkenburg, Brigitte, and Hartmann, Stephan (2021): Models, Unification, and Simulations: Margaret C. Morrison (1954–2021). In: Journal for General Philosophy of Science 52, 25–33.
  • Falkenburg, Brigitte (2021):Grete Hermann’s Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics: A Late Appraisal Elise Crull and Guido Bacciagaluppi, eds. Grete Hermann—Between Physics and Philosophy. Dordrecht: Springer Nature, 2016. Kay Herrmann, ed. Grete Henry-Hermann: Philosophie Mathematik—Quantenmechanik. Texte zur Naturphilosophie und Erkenntnistheorie, mathematisch-physikalische Beiträge sowie ausgewählte Korrespondenz aus den Jahren 1925 bis 1982. Wiesbaden: Springer, 2019. In: HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science. Published online May 14, 2021. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712935
  • Falkenburg, B. (2020): Kant’s Cosmology. From the Pre-Critical System to the Antinomy of Pure Reason. Springer.
  • Falkenburg, Brigitte (2020). Review of: Kant on Laws: by Eric Watkins, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019. In: British Journal for the History of Philosophy_ 29 (1):186-188.
  • Falkenburg, Brigitte (2020): Metaphysik als Naturanlage der Vernunft? Review of: Marcus Willaschek. Kant on the Sources of Metaphysics. The Dialectic of Pure Reason. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. In: Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 68(4), 644–651.
  • Falkenburg, Brigitte (2020): On Method: The Fact of Science and the Distinction between Natural Science and the Humanities. In: D. Heidemann (ed.): Kant Yearbook 2020: Kant and Neo-Kantianism, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2-31.
  • Falkenburg, B. (2018): "Kant and the Scope of the Analytic Method", in: De Bianchi, S. & Kraus, K. (eds.): New Perspectives on Kant and the Sciences, Special Issue of the Studies in History and Philosophy of Science.
  • Spagnesi, Lorenzo 2022. "The Idea of God and the Empirical Investigation of Nature in Kant's Transcendental Dialectic." Kantian Review, 27 (2), 279-297.
  • Spagnesi, Lorenzo (forthcoming in 2023). "The Necessity of Empirical Laws of Nature through the Lens of Kant's Dialectic." Kantian Review.
  • Spagnesi, Lorenzo (forthcoming in 2023). "A Rule-based Account of the Regulative Use of Reason in Kant's Critique of  Pure Reason." European Journal of Philosophy. Published online. doi: 10.1111/ejop.12793
  • Spagnesi, Lorenzo (forthcoming in 2023). "The Systematic Unity of Reason and Empirical Truth in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason." Kant-Studien.
  • Spagnesi, Lorenzo (forthcoming in 2023). "Regulative Idealization: A Kantian Approach to Idealized Models." Studies in History and Philosophy of Science.
 

B6: The Role of Inference to the Best Explanation in the Discovery of Gravitational Waves
  • Dennis Lehmkuhl (2021): `The Equivalence Principle(s)’. The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Physics, edited by E. Knox and A. Wilson, Routledge. Preprint at http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/17709/
  • Dennis Lehmkuhl and Christian Röken (in preparation): `On the History and Interpretation of the Schwarzschild Solution. Stars, Black Holes, Singularities and Event Horizons’.
  • Dennis Lehmkuhl and Christian Röken (in preperation): `Penrose diagrammes and Coordinate Systems as the Key to understanding Spacetimes’.
  • Guy Hetzroni and Noah Stemeroff (forthc.): `Formal, Material, or Pythagorean: Gauge and the Gravity-Electromagnetism Analogy’ in Posy and Ben-Menachem (Eds.) Mathematical Knowledge, Objects and Applications. Jerusalem Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, Springer.
  • `The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 16. The Berlin Years: June 1927 - May 1929’ Diana Kormos Buchwald, Ze’ev Rosenkranz, Dennis Lehmkuhl, Daniel J. Kennefick, József Illy, A. J. Kox, Tilman Sauer, Jennifer Nollar James (eds).
  • Noah Stemeroff (forthc.): `Scientific Perspectivism and the Methodology of Modern Mathematical Physics’, Philosophy of Science.
  • (in preperation) 'Einstein's Principles. On the Interpretation of Gravity'. Monograph under Contract with Oxford University Press
  • Jeroen van Dongen and Dennis Lehmkuhl (in preperation): `Einstein, Oppenheimer, and the concept of black holes’.


B7: Graded Causation
  • Hoffmann-Kolss, V. (forthcoming), "Interventionism and Non-causal Dependence Relations: New Work for a Theory of Supervenience", Australasian Journal of Philosophy.

B8: The Time of Science and the Time of our Lives
  • Friebe, C., Salimkhani, K., and Wachter, T. (forthcoming): Introduction for the Special Issue on Individuality, Distinguishability, and (Non-) Entanglement. Journal for General Philosophy of Science.
  • Hüttemann, A. (under review): "A Minimal Metaphysics for Scientific Practice" (book-manuscript).


B9: Complex Biological Dispositions: A Case Study in the Metaphysics of Biological Practice
  • Hüttemann A., Kaiser M. I. (2018): Potentiality in Biology, in: Engelhard K., Quante M. (eds.): Handbook of Potentiality. Dordrecht: Springer, 401-427.
  • Kaiser M. I., Trappes R. (forthcoming): Ecological-Evolutionary Mechanisms and Individualized Niches, in: Bausman W., Baxter J., Lean O. (eds.): From Biological Practice to Scientific Metaphysics. University of Minnesota Press.
  • Kaiser M. I., Müller C. (2021): What Is an Animal Personality? Biology & Philosophy 36(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-020-09776-w.
  • Kaiser M. I., Trappes R. (2021): Broadening the Problem Agenda of Biological Individuality: Individual Differences, Uniqueness, and Temporality. Biology & Philosophy 36, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-021-09791-5.
  • Kaiser M. I. (2021): Explanation in Evo-Devo, in: de la Rosa L. N., Müller G. B. (eds.): Evolutionary Developmental Biology - A Reference Guide. Cham: Springer.
  • Kaiser M. I. (2018): ENCODE and the Parts of the Human Genome, Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 72: 28-37.
  • Kaiser M. I. (2018): Individuating Part-whole Relations in the Biological World, in: Bueno O., Chen R.-L., Fagan M. B. (eds.): Individuation, Process and Scientific Practices. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 63-87.
  • Kaiser M. I. (2018): The Components and Boundaries of Mechanisms, in: Glennan S., Illari P. (eds.): The Routledge Handbook of Mechanisms and Mechanical Philosophy. New York: Routledge, 116-130.
  • Kaiser M. I., Krickel B. (2017): The Metaphysics of Constitutive Mechanistic Phenomena, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 68(3): 745-779.


B10: Metaphysics of Evolution: Justification and Ontology of Generalized Evolutionary Theory
  • Baraghith, K.; Häusler, L. (in prep.): Pandemic and Infodemic: the spread of misinformation on Covid-19 from a cultural evolutionary perspective.
  • Baraghith, K.; Valković, M.; Jordan, F. (in prep.): A Question of Power: can cultural evolutionary theory explain dominance?
  • Baraghith, K. (2022): From Games to Graphs: synthezising generalized evolutionary theory, Brill/Mentis.
  • Baraghith, K. (forthc.): From Games to Graphs: evolving networks in cultural evolution, in: du Crest, A.; Valković, M.; Ariew, A.; Desmond, H.; Huneman, P. & Thomas Reydon, 'Evolutionary Thinking Across Disciplines: Problems and Perspectives in Generalized Darwinism', Synthese Library/Springer.
  • Baraghith, K. (submitted): From Reduction to Unification, the Case of Cultural Evolutionary Psychology.
  • Baraghith, K. (2021): Phylogenetic Reconstruction of the Cultural Evolution of Electronic Music via Dynamic Community Detection (1975-1999), Evolution and Human Behavior 42/6, (together with M. Youngblood & P. Savage).
  • Baraghith, K. & Feldbacher-Escamilla, C. (2021): The Many Faces of Generalizing the Theory of Evolution, in: American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 58, Issue 1, 35-49.
  • Baraghith, K. (2020): Investigating Populations in Generalized Darwinism, in: Biology and Philosophy 35/19.
  • Baraghith, K. & Feldbacher-Escamilla, C. (2020): Cultural Inheritance in Generalized Darwinism, in: Philosophy of Science 87, 1-25.
  • Schurz, G. (in preparation): "Metaphysics of Evolution: Ontology and Justification of Generalized Evolution Theory", submitted to: A. du Crest,, M. Valkovic, P. Huneman, and  T. Reydon (eds), Evolutionary Thinking Across Disciplines. Problems and Perspectives in Generalized Darwinism, Springer (Synthese Library), Cham 2022.
  • Schurz, G. (forthcoming): Evolution of Rationality. In in: M. Knauff, W. Spohn (Eds.), The Handbook of Rationality, MIT Press, Cambridge/MA 2021, 101-113.
  • Schurz, G. (2021): "Evolution in Nature und Culture: Prospects and Problems of Generalized Evolution Theory", American Philosophical Quarterly 58(1), 95-110.


B11: Abductive Methodology in the Philosophy of Logic
  • Brendel, E. (under review with Synthese): “Logical Abductivism, Semantic Paradoxes, and the Truth Operator”
  • Brendel, E. (in preparation): “The Normative Significance of Logical (Dis-) Agreement” (with F. Ferrari)
  • Brendel, E. (in preparation): „Paradoxien der Wahrheit – Das Lügnerparadoxon“, to appear in: A.M. Bauer/G. Damschen, M. Siebel (Hrsg.): Paradoxien – Grenzdenken und Denkgrenzen von A(llwissenheit) bis Z(eit), Paderborn: mentis 2021.
  • Brendel, E. (in preparation): Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Logic (eds. with F. Ferrari, O. Hjortland, M. Carrara, G. Sagi, G. Sher, F. Steinberger.
  • Brendel, E. (2021): Logik-Skript 2: Einführung in die Modallogik, Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann.
  • Carrara, M. & Ferrari, F. (In preparation) "Logical disagreement, denial, and the possibility of rational dilemmas".
  • Ferrari, F. & Moruzzi, F. (In preparation) "Logical anti-exceptionalism and logical normativity".
  • Brendel, E. & Ferrari, F. (In preparation) "The normative significance of logical (dis)agreement".
  • Ferrari, F. Et al. (in preparation) "The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Logic".
  • Ferrari, F. Et al. (in preparation) "Anti-exceptionalism about logic", a topical collection to appear in Synthese.
  • Ferrari, F. (2021) "Austere Truth Pluralism" (with S. Moruzzi and NJLL Pedersen), to appear in: The Nature of Truth (2nd edition), Ed. by J. Wyatt, J. Kim, M. P. Lynch, N. Kellen (eds.), Cambridge (MA): MIT Press. (ISBN: 9780262542067).
  • Ferrari, F. (2020) "Alethic Pluralism and the Value of Truth", Synthese (online first–doi: 10.1007/s11229-020-02625-z).

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Ended Projects:

B1: Modality in Physics and in Metaphysics
  • Bartels, A. (2019): "Explaining the modal force of natural laws", in: European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 9(1):6. (https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-018-0225-5).
  • Salimkhani, K. (2020): "On the Fundamentality of Spacetime in General Relativity and Approaches to Quantum Gravity", PhD thesis, University of Bonn.
  • Salimkhani, K. (2020): "The Dynamical Approach to Spin-2 Gravity", in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 72, pp. 29-45. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2020.05.002).
  • Salimkhani, K. (2019): "Explaining unification in physics internally", in: Synthese. (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-019-02436-x.).
  • Salimkhani, K. (2018): „Quantum Gravity: A Dogma of Unification?“, in: Christian, A. et al. (eds.): European Studies in Philosophy of Science 9: Philosophy of Science – Between the Natural Sciences, the Social Sciences, and the Humanities, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 23–41 (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-72577-2_2).


B2: Properties and Property Individuation
  • Hoffmann-Kolss, V. (2019), "Defining Qualitative Properties", Erkenntnis 84: 995-1010.
  • Hoffmann-Kolss, V. (2018), "Why Intrinsicness Should Be Defined in a Non-Reductive Way", Grazer Philosophische Studien 95: 1-14.
  • Hoffmann-Kolss, V. (2017), "Intrinsische und extrinsische Eigenschaften", in: Schrenk, M. (ed.), Handbuch Metaphysik, J.B. Metzler: 103-109.

B4: Determinism, Control, and the Consequence Argument
  • Hicks, M.; Jaag, S.; Loew, C. (under review): "Laws and Norms".
  • Hüttemann, A. (under review): "Fundamentality in Physics and Metaphysics".
  • Hüttemann, A.; Loew, C. (2019): "Freier Wille und Naturgesetze – Überlegungen zum Konsequenzargument", In: von Stoch, K.; Wendel, S.; Breul, M.; Langenfeld, A. (eds.): Streit um die Freiheit – Philosophische und Theologische Perspektiven, Paderborn: Schöningh.
  • Hüttemann, A. (2019): "Dispositionalität und Potentialität in der Physik", accepted for publication by Philosophisches Symposium der DFG 2019 on Potentiality.
  • Hüttemann, A. (2018): "Processes, Preemption and Further Problems", Synthese. (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-02058-9)
  • Loew, C. (under review): "Compatibilist Abilities".
  • Loew, C.; Hüttemann, A. (under review): "Are we Free to Make the Laws?"
  • Loew, Christian & Jaag, Siegfried (2020a): Humean Laws and (Nested) Counterfactuals. The Philosophical Quarterly 70(278): 93–113.
  • Loew, Christian & Jaag, Siegfried (2020b): What Humeans should say about tied best systems. Analysis, 80(2): 273–282, 2020.
  • Loew, C. (2017a): "The Asymmetry of Counterfactual Dependence", Philosophy of Science 84(3), 436–455.
  • Loew, C. (2017b): "Causes as Difference-Makers for Processes", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. (https://doi.org/10.1111/phpr.12424)
  • Jaag, S.; Loew, C. (2018): "Making Best Systems best for Us", Synthese. (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-1829-1)
  • Vaassen, B. (2020): Causal exclusion without causal sufficiency. Synthese. (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02723-y)


B5: Statistical Causation, Intervention, and Freedom
  • Feldbacher-Escamilla, C. J. and Gebharter, A. (2019): "Modeling Creative Abduction Bayesian Style", European Journal for Philosophy of Science. (DOI 10.1007/s13194-018-0234-4)
  • Gebharter, A. (2020): "Freedom as a higher-level phenomenon?" Erkenntnis.
  • Gebharter, A. (2017): Causal Nets, Interventionism, and Mechanisms: Philosophical Foundations and Applications, Synthese Library 381, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer (DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-49908-6).
  • Gebharter, A. (2017): „Causal Exclusion and Causal Bayes Nets“, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 95(2), 353–375 (DOI:10.1111/phpr.12247).
  • Gebharter, A. (2017): „Causal Exclusion without Physical Completeness and no Overdetermination“, Abstracta - Linguagem, Mente e Ação 10, 3–10.
  • Schurz, G. (2017): "Interactive Causes: Revising the Markov Condition", Philosophy of Science 84(3), 456–479.


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  • Subprojects 2017-2020
    • A1: The Research Programme of Inductive Metaphysics from Gustav Theodor Fechner to Erich Becher and beyond
    • A2: Creative Abductive Inference and Its Role for Inductive Metaphysics in Comparison to Other Metaphysical Methods
    • A4: Kant and Inductive Methods in 18th Century Metaphysics
    • B1: Modality in Physics and in Metaphysics
    • B2: Properties and Property Individuation
    • B4: Determinism, Control, and the Consequence Argument
    • B5: Statistical Causation, Intervention, and Freedom
  • Subprojects 2020-2023
    • A1: Inductive Metaphysics and Logical Empiricism
    • A2: Creative Abductive Inference and its Role for Inductive Metaphysics
    • A4: Inductive Methods in Kant and Neo-Kantianism
    • B6: The Role of Inference to the best explanation in the discovery of Gravitational Waves
    • B7: Graded Causation
    • B8: The Time of science and the time of our lives
    • B9: Complex biological dispositions: a case study in the metaphysics of biological practice
    • B10: Metaphysics of Evolution: justification and ontology of generalized evolution theory
    • B11: Abductive Methodology in the philosophy of logic
  • Events
    • Abduction in Philosophy of Mind
    • Mental Disorders and Modal Properties
    • Inductive Metaphysics: Insights, Challenges and Prospects
    • Non-Reductionism in the Metaphysics of Mind
    • Essences, Dispositions and Laws in Kant
    • The Methodology of Logic: Abductivist and Non-abductivist Approaches
    • Grounding and the Direction of Explanation
    • Wochenendseminar zur Philosophie der Physik
    • Dispositions in the Life-Sciences Contemporary and Historical Perspectives
    • New Work on Induction and Abduction
    • Compatibilist Libertarianism: Advantages and Challenges
    • Metaphysics as Modelling. Contemporary and Kantian Issues
    • Laws and Explanations in Metaphysics and Science
    • Causation and Responsibility
    • Thinking About the Cultural Evolution of Thinking
    • Causal Distinctions: Specificity and Beyond
    • Free Will and Causality
    • Epistemic Engineering
    • Counterpossibles, Counternomics and Causal Theories of Properties
    • The Possibility of Metaphysics
    • Abduction and Modelling in Metaphysics
    • Kant's Concepts of Metaphysics
    • Freedom and Determinism
    • What Do We Do When We Do Metaphysics?
    • Properties and Laws in the Light of Inductive Metaphysics
    • Free Will and Laws of Nature
    • Traditional and Inductive Metaphysics
    • Spacetime: Fundamental or Emergent?
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