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D-Index
42
Citations
8154
World Ranking
4715
National Ranking
800

Overview

Steven French is affiliated with the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. Their research spans the fields of Arts and Humanities as well as Physics and Astronomy, with particular focus on the history and philosophy of science and quantum mechanics.

The main fields of study covered in Steven French's work include:

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Physics and Astronomy

Within these broader fields, their subfields of study comprise:

  • History and Philosophy of Science
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Philosophy
  • Physiology

Steven French's research topics address several areas such as:

  • Philosophy and History of Science
  • Quantum Mechanics and Applications
  • Philosophy, Science, and History
  • Philosophy and Theoretical Science
  • Biofield Effects and Biophysics
  • Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
  • Aesthetic Perception and Analysis

The scientist has published frequently in several academic journals, among which the most common venues are:

  • Metascience
  • European Journal for Philosophy of Science
  • Erkenntnis
  • Foundations of Physics
  • Journal of Pathology Informatics

Recent selected publications include:

  • "Imagination in Scientific Practice," 2020, European Journal for Philosophy of Science
  • "The Value of Surprise in Science," 2021, Erkenntnis
  • "Phenomenology, Perspectivalism and (Quantum) Physics," 2024, Foundations of Physics
  • "Resistance is futile!," 2020, Metascience
  • "BUILDING A DIGITAL PATHOLOGY REPOSITORY TO SUPPORT AI: LESSONS LEARNED FROM JOINT EFFORTS BY THE JOINT PATHOLOGY CENTER AND JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY," 2022, Journal of Pathology Informatics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Steven French include:

  • Alice Murphy
  • Joel T. Moncur
  • Mark D. Zarella
  • Ivonne Arena
  • Daniel Butler

Best Publications

  • Science and Partial Truth: A Unitary Approach to Models and Scientific Reasoning

    Newton C. A. da Costa;Steven French

  • Identity in Physics: A Historical, Philosophical, and Formal Analysis

    Steven French;Décio Krause

  • Remodelling structural realism: Quantum physics and the metaphysics of structure

    Steven French;James Ladyman

  • The Structure of the World: Metaphysics and Representation

    Steven French

  • Science and Partial Truth

    Newton C. A. da Costa;Steven French

  • Reinflating the Semantic Approach

    Steven French;James Ladyman

  • The model-theoretic approach in the philosophy of science

    Newton C. A. Da Costa;Steven French

  • A Model‐Theoretic Account of Representation (Or, I Don't Know Much about Art…but I Know It Involves Isomorphism)

    Steven French

  • On Representing the Relationship between the Mathematical and the Empirical

    Otávio Bueno;Steven French;James Ladyman

  • 6. On the Withering Away of Physical Objects

    Steven French

  • Thinking Outside the Toolbox: Towards a More Productive Engagement Between Metaphysics and Philosophy of Physics

    Steven French;Kerry McKenzie

  • Identity and individuality in classical and quantum physics

    Steven French

  • VI* STRUCTURE AS A WEAPON OF THE REALIST'

    Steven French

  • Correspondence, Invariance and Heuristics

    Steven French;Harmke Kamminga

  • How Theories Represent

    Otávio Bueno;Steven French

  • Models, Theories, and Structures: Thirty Years on

    Newton da Costa;Steven French

  • The reasonable effectiveness of mathematics : Partial structures and the application of group theory to physics

    Steven French

  • The Logic of Pragmatic Truth

    Newton C. A. da Costa;Otávio A. S. Bueno;Steven French

  • The interdependence of structure, objects and dependence

    Steven French

  • The Structural Foundations of Quantum Gravity

    Dean Rickles;Steven French;Juha T. Saatsi

  • The dissolution of objects: Between platonism and phenomenalism

    Steven French;James Ladyman

  • In Defence of Ontic Structural Realism

    Steven French;James Ladyman

  • Metaphysical underdetermination: why worry?

    Steven French

Frequent Co-Authors

James Ladyman
James Ladyman University of Bristol
Bas C. van Fraassen
Bas C. van Fraassen San Francisco State University
Stathis Psillos
Stathis Psillos National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Alfred I. Tauber
Alfred I. Tauber Boston University
Steve Fuller
Steve Fuller University of Warwick

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