Dr Roman Frigg

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Senior Lecturer in Philosophy

Published works - original papers

'Models and Fiction', forthcoming in Synthese.
'The Philosophy of Simulation: Hot New Issues or Same Old Stew?', forthcoming in Synthese, with Julian Reiss.
'Probability in Bolzmannian Statistical Mechanics', forthcoming in Gerhard Ernst and Andreas Hüttemann (eds.): Time, Chance and Reduction. Philosophical Aspects of Statistical Mechanics. Cambridge University Press.
'Humean Chance in Boltzmannian Statistical Mechanics', forthcoming in Philosophy of Science (Proceedings of the 2006 PSA Meeting in Vancouver).
'Probability in GRW Theory', Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 38, 2007, 371-389, with Carl Hoefer.
‘The Ergodic Hierarchy, Randomness and Chaos’, Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 37, 2006, 661-691, with Joseph Berkovitz and Fred Kronz.
'Chaos and Randomness: An Equivalence Proof of a Generalised Version of the Shannon Entropy and the Kolmogorov-Sinai Entropy for Hamiltonian Dynamical Systems', Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 28, 2006, 26-31.
'Scientific Representation and the Semantic View of Theories', Theoria 55, 2006, 49-65.
'In What Sense Is the Kolmogorov-Sinai Entropy a Measure for Chaotic Behaviour? - Bridging the Gap Between Dynamical Systems Theory and Communication Theory', British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 55, 2004, 411-434.
'Self-Organised Criticality - What It Is and what It Isn't', Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science 34, 2003, 613-632.
'On the Property Structure of Realist Collapse Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics and the So-Called "Counting Anomaly"', International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 17, 2003, 43-57.
'Models and Representation: Why Structures Are Not Enough', Measurement in Physics and Economics Project Discussion Paper Series, DP MEAS 25/02, London School of Economics 2002.

Published works - survey articles

'A Field Guide to Recent Work on the Foundations of Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics', forthcoming in Dean Rickles (ed.): The Ashgate Companion to the New Philosophy of Physics. London: Ashgate.
'Models in Science', Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2006 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2006/entries/models-science/ >, with Stephan Hartmann

Published works - encyclopaedia entries

'Models in Physics', forthcoming in Routledge Encyclopaedia of Philosophy (web version).
'GRW Theory', forthcoming in: Daniel Greenberger, Brigitte Falkenburg, Klaus Hentschel and Friedel Weinert (eds.): Compendium of Quantum Physics: Concepts, Experiments, History and Philosophy. Springer.
'Scientific Models', in: Sahorta Sarkar and Jessica Pfeifer (eds.): The Philosophy of Science: An Encyclopedia. New York: Routledge 2006, 740-749, with Stephan Hartmann.

Published works - discussion notes

'String Theory under Scrutiny', Physics World 20 (September Issue), 2007, 14-15, with Nancy Cartwright.

Published works - book reviews

Review of Meinard Kuhlmann, Holger Lyre, and Andrew Wayne (eds.): 'Ontological Aspects of Quantum Field Theory', Philosophy of Science 72, 2005, 511-514.
Review of Mark Buchanan: 'Ubiquity. The Science of History ... Or Why the World Is Simpler than We Think', British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 53, 2002, 585-591.
Review of Peter Smith: 'Explaining Chaos', British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 52, 2001, 201-205, with Joseph Berkovitz.

Published works - edited volumes

Models and Simulation, special issue of Synthese (forthcoming), with Stephan Hartmann and Cyrille Imbert.
Probability in Quantum Mechanics, special issue of Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Vol. 38), 2007, with Stephan Hartmann.
Scientific Representation, special issue of Theoria (Vol. 55), 2006, with José Díez.

Published works - interdisciplinary papers

'The Biomechanical Influence of Tibio-Talar Containment on Stability of the Ankle Joint', Journal of Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology and Arthroscopy 15, 2007, (print version to appear in October), with Arno Frigg, Beat Hintermann, Alexey Barg and Victor Valderrabano.

Unpublished works

Re-presenting Scientific Representation, PhD thesis, University of London, England, 2003.
Empiristische Kausalitätstheorien und ihre Kritik, Lizentiatsarbeit in Philosophie (master's thesis in philosophy), Universität Basel, Switzerland, 1999.
Integrability in Classical and Quantum Mechanical Particle Systems in a Phase Space Representation, Diplomarbeit in Theoretischer Physik (master's thesis in theoretical physics), Universität Basel, Switzerland,1997.

Email: r.p.frigg@lse.ac.uk

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