Mathias Frisch

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• Inconsistency, Asymmetry, and Non-Locality: A Philosophical Investigation of Classical Electrodynamics, Oxford University Press (2005).
  

• "Van Fraassen's Dissolution of Putnam's Model-Theoretic Argument," Philosophy of Science, 66 (March 1999), 158-164.
• "(Dis-)Solving the Puzzle of the Arrow of Radiation," British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 51 (September 2000), 381-410.
• "Non-Locality in Classical Electrodynamics," British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (March 2002), 1-19.
• "Classical Electrodynamics and the Role of Consistency in Scientific Theories," Philosophy of Science 71 (October 2004), 525-549.
• "Laws and Initial Conditions," Philosophy of Science 71:5 (December 2004), 696-706.
• "Mechanisms, Principles, and Lorentz's Cautious Realism," Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 36, 4 (December 2005), 659-679.
• "Counterfactuals and the Past Hypothesis," Philosophy of Science 72: 5 (December 2005), 739-750.
• "A Tale of Two Arrows," Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 37 (2006), 542-558.
• A New Look at Popper's Pond, in Karl Popper: A Centenary Assessment, ed. Ian Jarvie, Ashgate (2007), 77-84.
• "Causation, Counterfactuals and Entropy," in Russell's Republic: The Place of Causation in the Constitution of Reality, eds. Huw Price and Richard Corry, Oxford University Press (2007), 351-395.
• "Conceptual Problems in Classical Electrodynamics," Philosophy of Science (January 2008). pdf file
• "Counterfactuals and Entropy," in Time, Chance, and Reduction, eds. Andreas Huettemann uand Gerhard Ernst, Cambridge University Press (forthcoming). pdf file
• "No Place for Causes? Assessing Causal Skepticism in Physics." pdf file
• "'The most Sacred Tenet'? Causal Reasoning in Physics" forthcoming in the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science pdf file   John Norton's reply to this paper, "Is There an Independent Principle of Causality in Physics?", can be downloaded here.
• "Causality and dispersion: a reply to John Norton" forthcoming in the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science pdf file
• "Philosophical Issues in Classical Electrodynamics"  forthcoming in Philosophy Compass  pdf file
• "Causes, Counterfactuals, and Non-Locality." pdf file This is a preprint of an article whose final and definitive form will be published in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy [2010]; the Australasian Journal of Philosophy is available online at: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/
• "Causal Models and the Asymmetry of State Preparation" forthcoming in the Proceedings of the First Congress of the European Philosophy of Science Association pdf file
• A review of: Stephan Hartmann, Carl Hoefer, and Luc Bovens (eds.) Nancy Cartwright's Philosophy of Science  pdf file