Work in Progress

Books and Edited Collections

• Biography of John von Neumann. Under contract with Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
• The Aims and Structure of Cosmological Theory, with Chris Smeenk. Under contract with Oxford University Press.
• Space, Time, and Geometry from Newton to Einstein, feat. Maxwell. (Lecture notes based on 2016 MCMP Summer School on Mathematical Philosophy)
• The Geometrical Foundations of Classical Field Theory.

Articles and Book Chapters

• “A Treatise of Humean Nature, etc. etc.,” with N. Dewar. Preprint.
• “Correctness, Artificial Intelligence, and the Epistemic Value of Mathematical Proof,” with J. Wolfson. Preprint.
• “Defining Determinism,” with H. Halvorson and JB Manchak. Preprint
• “On (Some) Gauge Theories of Gravity.” Preprint.
• “We Were Never Sophisticated,” with C. Bradley. Preprint.
• “The Geometry of the Gauge Argument,” with B. Feintzeig.
• “On Stuff: The Field Concept in Classical Physics”.

Published work

Books and Edited Collections

• The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread, with Cailin O’Connor. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press (2019). Amazon.
• Void: The Strange Physics of Nothing. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press (2016). Amazon. Barnes & Noble.
• Mathematical Depth, edited with Michael Ernst, Jeremy Heis, Penelope Maddy, and Bennett McNulty. Special Issue of Philosophia Mathematica. Read online.
• Relativistic Causality, edited with G. Valente. Special Issue of Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. Read online.
• The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2013). Amazon. Barnes & Noble.
• The Everett Papers Project, edited with J. Barrett and P. Byrne. UCIspace@The Libraries. (2011). Available here.

Peer Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters

• “Spacetime Models for Cosmology.” Forthcoming in Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science and Technology: Science and Values in an Uncertain World. Proceedings of the 17th. International Congress in Buenos Aires. Eleonora Cresto, Benedikt Löwe and Atocha Aliseda, eds. Rickmansworth, UK: College Publications. Preprint.
• “Natural Theories,” with E. March. Forthcoming in The British Journal for Philosophy of Science. Preprint.
• “Determinism and Asymmetry in General Relativity,” with JB Manchak, T. Barrett, and H. Halvorson. Forthcoming in The British Journal for Philosophy of Science. E-print.
• “A Puzzle about General Relativity and Gauge,” with E. March. Forthcoming in The British Journal for Philosophy of Science. E-print.
• “Are General Relativity and Teleparallel Gravity Theoretically Equivalent?” with H. Meskhidze. Philosophy of Physics 3(1):6. Published version. E-print.
• “Fake News!,” with C. O’Connor. Philosophy Compass 19(6), e13005 (2024). E-print. Published version.
• “Between a Stone and a Hausdorff Space,” with J. Wu. Forthcoming in The British Journal for Philosophy of Science. Published version. E-print.
• “The Local Validity of Special Relativity. Part 2: Matter Dynamics,” with S. Fletcher. Philosophy of Physics 1(1):7 (2023). Published version. E-print.
• “The Local Validity of Special Relativity. Part 1: Geometry,” with S. Fletcher. Philosophy of Physics 1(1):6 (2023).  Published version. E-print.
• “Dark Energy or Modified Gravity?” with C. Smeenk. Philosophy of Science 91(5) (2024). Published version. E-print.
• “Torsion in the Classical Spacetime Context,” with H. Meskhidze. Philosophy of Science 91(5) (2024). Published version. E-print.
• “Moral Judgments Impact Perceived Risks from COVID-19 Exposure,” with C. O’Connor, D. P. Relihan, A. Thomas, P. H. Ditto, and P. K. Stanford. Collabra 9(1):74793 (2023). Published version. E-print.
• “The Next Generation Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration: History, Philosophy, and Culture”, 25 interdisciplinary co-authors. Galaxies 11(1):32 (2023). Published Version.
• “On Automorphism Criteria for Comparing Amounts of Mathematical Structure”, with T. Barrett and JB Manchak. Synthese 201:191. Published version. E-print.
• “The Best Paper You’ll Read Today: Media Biases and the Public Understanding of Science”, with A. Mohseni and C. O’Connor. Philosophical Topics 50(2):127-153 (2023). Published version. E-print
• “Where Does General Relativity Break Down?” Philosophy of Science 90(5): 1342-1351. Published version (OA). E-print. 
• “Mathematical Responses to the Hole Argument: Then and Now”, with C. Bradley. Philosophy of Science 89(5), 1223-1232 (2022). Published version. E-print
• “Comparing Implementations of Self-Interacting Dark Matter in the Gizmo and Arepo Codes”, with H. Meskhidze, F. Mercado, O. Smaeie, V. H. Robles, J. S. Bullock, and M. Kaplinghat. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 513(2): 2600–2608 (2022). Published version. E-print
• “Two Dogmas of Dynamicism.” Synthese 199: 253–275 (2021). Published version. E-print.
• “Modeling How False Beliefs Spread,” with Cailin O’Connor.  In Routledge Handbook of Political Epistemology, M. Hannon and G. J. de Ridder, eds.  New York: Routlege (2021). Preprint.
• “Endogenous Epistemic Factionalization: A Network Epistemology Approach,” with Cailin O’Connor. Synthese 198, 6179–6200 (2021). Published version. Preprint.
• “Some Philosophical Prehistory of the Earman-Norton Hole Argument.” Forthcoming in Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. Published version. Preprint.
• “On Representational Redundancy, Surplus Structure, and the Hole Argument”, with Clara Bradley. Foundations of Physics 50, 270–293 (2020). Published version. Preprint.
• “Conformity in Scientific Networks,” with Cailin O’Connor. Synthese 198: 7257–7278 (2021). Published version. E-print.
• “Equivalence and Duality in Electromagnetism”. Philosophy of Science 87(5):1172-1183 (2020). Published version. E-print.
• “Theoretical Equivalence in Physics, Part 2.” Philosophy Compass 14(5): e12591 (2019). Published version. Eprint (both parts).
• “Theoretical Equivalence in Physics, Part 1.” Philosophy Compass 14(5): e12592 (2019). Published version.Eprint (both parts).
• “Why Not Categorical Equivalence?” Forthcoming in Hajnal Andreka and Istvan Nemeti on Unity of Science, J. Madarász and G. Székely, eds. Published version. E-print.
• “Why Be Regular? Part II” with B. Feintzeig. Forthcoming in Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 65, 133-144 (2019). Published version. E-print.
• “Why Be Regular? Part I” with B. Feintzeig, J. (Le)Manchak, and S. Rosenstock. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 65, 122-132 (2019). Published version. E-print.
• “Geometry and Motion in General Relativity,” Thinking About Space and Time, Einstein Studies. C. Beisbart, T. Sauer, and C. Wüthrich, eds. Boston, MA:Birkäuser, 207-226 (2020). Published version. E-print.
• “Classical Spacetimes,” The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Physics, E. Knox and A. Wilson, eds. 33–45 (2021). E-print.
• “The Motion of Small Bodies in Space-time,” with R. Geroch. Communications in Mathematical Physics 364(2), 607-634 (2018). Published version. E-print.
• “How to Beat Science and Influence People: Policy Makers and Propaganda in Epistemic Networks,” with Cailin O’Connor and Justin Bruner. The British Journal for Philosophy of Science 71(4), 1157-1186 (2020). Published version E-print.
• “Scientific Polarization”, with Cailin O’Connor. European Journal for Philosophy of Science. 8(3), 855-875 (2018). Published version.  E-print.
• “(Information) Paradox Regained? A Brief Comment on Maudlin on Black Hole Information Loss”, with JB Manchak. Forthcoming in Foundations of Physics. Published version. E-print.
• “On Gravitational Energy in Newtonian Theories,” with N. Dewar. Forthcoming in Foundations of Physics. Published version. E-print.
• “The Peculiar Logic of the Black-Scholes Model.” Forthcoming in Philosophy of Science. Preprint.
• “Would Two Dimensions be World Enough for Spacetime?”, with M. Schneider, S. Fletcher, and J. Manchak. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 63, 100-113 (2018). Published version. Preprint.
• “A Brief Comment on Maxwell(/Newton)[-Huygens] Spacetime.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 63, 34-38 (2018). Published version. Preprint.
• “Market crashes as critical phenomena? Explanation, idealization, and universality in econophysics” with J. Jhun and P. Palacios. Synthese 195(10), 4477–4505 (2018). Published version. Preprint.
• “Conservation, Inertia, and Spacetime Geometry,” Forthcoming in Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. Preprint.
• “A Categorical Equivalence between Generalized Holonomy Maps on a Connected Manifold and Principal Connections on Bundles over that Manifold,” with S. Rosenstock. Journal of Mathematical Physics 57(10), 102902 (2016). Published version. E-print.
• “Morals and Emotions of Money,” with N. Bandelj, J. Elyachar, J. Kim, M. McBride, and Z. Tufail. Forthcoming in Money Talks. N. Bandlej, F. Wherry, and V. Zelizer, eds. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
• “Understanding Gauge.” Philosophy of Science 83(5), 1039-1049 (2016). Published version. Preprint.
• “On Einstein Algebras and Relativistic Spacetimes,” with S. Rosenstock and T. Barrett. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 52B, 309-316 (2015). Published version. E-print.
• “Fiber bundles, Yang-Mills theory, and General Relativity.” Synthese 193(8), 2389-2425 (2016). Published version. E-print.
• “Categories and the Foundations of Classical Field Theories.” Forthcoming in Categories for the Working Philosopher, E. Landry ed. Oxford University Press: Oxford (201?) Preprint.
• “Are Newtonian gravitation and geometrized Newtonian gravitation theoretically equivalent?” Erkenntnis 81(5), 1073-1091 (2016). Published version. Preprint.
• “Maxwell-Huygens, Newton-Cartan, and Saunders-Knox Spacetimes.” Philosophy of Science 83(1), 82-92 (2016). Published version. E-print.
• “Regarding the ‘Hole Argument’.” Forthcoming in The British Journal for Philosophy of Science. Published version. E-print.
• “Comprehending and Regulating Financial Crises: An Interdisciplinary Approach,” with N. Bandelj, J. Elyachar, and G. Richardson. Perspectives on Science 24(4), 443-473 (2016). Published version.
• “Collective belief and the string theory community,” with Margaret Gilbert. The Epistemic Life of Groups: Essays in the Epistemology of Collectives, M. Brady and M. Fricker eds. Oxford University Press: Oxford (2016).
• “On G. E. Moore’s ‘Proof of an External World’.” Forthcoming in Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 98(2), 219–250 (2017). Published version. E-print (pdf).
• “Against Dogma: On Superluminal Propagation in Classical Electromagnetism.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. 48B, 109-123 (2014). Published version. E-print.
• “What is a Singularity in Geometrized Newtonian Gravitation?” Philosophy of Science 81(5) 1077-1089 (2014). Published version. E-print.
• “The Geometry of Conventionality,” with J. B. Manchak. Philosophy of Science 81(2), 233-247 (2014). Published version. E-print.
• “Inertial motion, explanation, and the foundations of classical spacetime theories.” In Towards a Theory of Spacetime Theories, D. Lehmkuhl, G. Schiemann, and E. Scholz eds. Birkhauser: Boston, MA (2017), pp. 13–42. Published version. E-print.
• “The scope and generality of Bell-type theorems.” Foundations of Physics 43(9), 1153-1169 (2013). Published version. E-print.
• “A brief remark on energy conditions and the Geroch-Jang Theorem.” Foundations of Physics. 42(2), 209-214 (2012). Published version. E-print.
• “On the status of the geodesic principle in Newtonian and relativistic physics.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. 42(4), 276-281 (2011). Published version. E-print.
• “On (Some) Explanations in Physics.” Philosophy of Science. 78(3), 421-447 (2011). Published version. E-print.
• “The Motion of a Body in Newtonian Theories.” Journal of Mathematical Physics. 52(3), 032502 (2011). Published version. E-print. Extended e-print (with additional proofs).
• “Index of refraction engineering in five level DIGS atoms,” with S. Sagona-Stophel and C. Search. Optics Letters. 36(6), 3130 (2011). Published Version. E-print.
• “Lossless anomalous dispersion and an inversionless gain doublet via dressed interacting ground states,” with C. Search. Physical Review A 81, 023806 (2010). Published version. E-print.
• “Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in a Double Well Atomic Josephson Junction,” with C. Search. Acta Physica Polonica A 116(4), 455-459 (2009). Published version.
• “Quantum control of dispersion in electromagnetically induced transparency via interacting dressed ground states,” with C. Search. Physical Review A 78, 053802 (2008). Published version. E-print.
• “Quantum control of electromagnetically induced transparency dispersion via atomic tunneling in a double-well Bose-Einstein condensate,” with C. Search and M. Jääskeläainen. Physical Review A 78, 013830 (2008). Published version. E-print.

Book Reviews

• Review of The Logic in Philosophy of Science, by H. Halvorson. Mind 130(159), 1032-1039 (2021). Published version.
• Essay Review of Craig Callender’s What Makes Time Special? Philosophy of Science 87(3), 536-544 (2020). Published version.
• Review of Oppositions and Paradoxes, by J. Bell. Philosophia Mathematica 27(3), 443-445 (2019). Published version.
• “Black Holes, Black Scholes, and Prairie Voles: An Essay Review of Simulation and Similarity, by Michael Weisberg,” with C. O’Connor. Philosophy of Science 83(4), 613-626 (2016). Published version. E-print.
• Review of Interpreting Physical Theories, by L. Ruetsche. The Philosophical Review 124(2), 275-278 (2015). Published version.
• Review of The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Physics, edited by R. Batterman. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2013). Published version.

Short Reviews, Commentary, and Other Publications

• “Formal proof and epistemic value,” with Jesse Wolfson. Silicon Reckoner. Published online 3 October 2025. Published version.
• Response to Macedo and Lee, “How Did We Fare on COVID-19?”. Boston Review. Published online 19 June 2025. Published version.
• Preface to the 90th Anniversary Issue of Philosophy of Science. Philosophy of Science. Philosophy of Science 90th Anniversary Collection. Published online 30 June 2023. Published version.
• “Writing The Misinformation Age,” with C. O’Connor. The Brains Blog. Published online 22 June 2021. Published version.
• Preface: The Philosophy of Howard Stein, with E. Curiel and T. Pashby. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 72, 150-151 (2020). Published version.
• “New Perspectives on the Hole Argument,” with B. Roberts. Foundations of Physics 50, 217-227 (2020). Published version.
• “Hydroxychloroquine and the Political Polarization of Science: How a drug became an object lesson in political tribalism,” with C. O’Connor. \emph{Boston Review}. Published online 4 May 2020. Published version.
  • Reprinted in Thinking in a Pandemic: The Crisis of Science and Policy in the Age of COVID-19. Matt Lord, ed. Brooklyn, NY: Verso Books, 127–135 (2020).
• “Fair Elections During a Crisis: Urgent Recommendations in Law, Media, Politics, and Tech to Advance the Legitimacy of, and the Public’s Confidence in, the November 2020 U.S. Elections.” Report by the Ad Hoc Committee for 2020 Election Fairness and Legitimacy (Rick Hasen, lead author). UCI Law. 22 April 2020. Final version.
• “Why False Claims about COVID-19 Refuse to Die: Tracking the Information Zombie Apocalypse,” with C. O’Connor.  Nautilus. Published online 16 April 2020. Published version.
• “The Social Media Propaganda Problem Is Worse Than You Think,” with C. O’Connor. Issues in Science & Technology 36(1), 30-32 (2019). Published version.
• “Why We Trust Lies,” with C. O’Connor. Scientific American 321(3), 54-61 (2019).  Published version.
  • Selected by the editors of Scientific American as one of Top Science Stories of 2019 and reprinted in Scientific American: Top Science Stories of 2019 28(5), 110-115 (2019)
  • Reprinted in Scientific American: Truth vs. Lies 29(4s), 2–25 (2020).
• “How Powerful Interests Use Science to Sway Public Opinion,” with C. O’Connor. Zocalo Public Square. Published online 5 September 2019. Published version.
• “False Beliefs and the Social Structure of Science: Some Models and Case Studies,” with C. O’Connor. Groupthink in Science, D. M. Allen and J. W. Howell, eds. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, 37-48 (2020). Published version.
• “How Misinformation Can Spread Among Scientists,” with C. O’Connor. The Behavioral Scientist. Published online 2 April 2019. Published version.
• “Six Tips for Avoiding Misinformation on Social Media,” with C. O’Connor. Yale Books Unbound (Yale University Press Blog). Published online 15 March 2019. Published version.
• “The Misinformation Age: how false beliefs spread,” with C. O’Connor. Imperfect Cognitions. Published online 14 March 2019. Published version.
• “Weaponizing Reputation”, with C. O’Connor. The Yale Review 106(4), 60-69 (2018). Published version.
• “The Physics of Nothing.” Arts & Education. Published online 27 April 2018. Published version.
• “Exploring the Great Pyramid with Cosmic Rays.” Yale Books Unbound. Published online 14 November 2017. Published version.
• “Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know?” Nautilus: Facts so Romantic. Published online 24 April 2017. Published version.
• “Why Rotation Makes No Sense Sometimes.” Nautilus: Facts so Romantic. Published online 2 January 2017. Published version.
• “Vera Rubin and the Discovery of Dark Matter.” Yale Books Unbound. Published online 20 December 2016. Published version.
• “Why the Flash Crash Really Matters,” with Chris Clearfield. Nautilus Issue 23, Ch 4. Published online 23 April 2015. Published version.
• Foreword / Afterword to Special Issue of Philosophia Mathematica, with Michael Ernst, Jeremy Heis, Penelope Maddy, and Bennett McNulty. Published foreword. Published afterword.
• “When Wall Street does the math, it can get it wrong.” Orange County Register. 3 June 2013. Published version (behind paywall).
• “You can know the future.” Australian Financial Review. 23 March 2013, 58. Published version (behind paywall).
• “It is not the maths that causes crises but the trust we put in it.” Financial Times. 15 February 2013, 11. Published version.
• “Evil Wall Street tricks can be used for good.” USA Today. 13 February 2013. Published version.
• “Black swans are difficult to predict but we still need maths in finance.” City A.M. 11 February 2013. (Excerpt from The Physics of Wall Street.) (Published version.
• “The Higgs Boson ‘Nightmare Scenario’: What if the biggest new discovery in physics isn’t a beginning, but an end?”. The Boston Globe. 22 July, K3 (2012). Published version.
• “A Quest for Unification,” with A. G. Lisi. Scientific American, December (2010). Published version.
• “Commentary on General Relativity from A to B by Robert Geroch.” Humana.menta 13, April (2010). Published version (pdf).
• “Dark Flow Revealed.” Popular Science, October (2009). Published version.
• “The Accidental Particle: They’re turning on the Large Hadron Collider. Don’t expect the Higgs boson to show up.” Slate, September (2008). Published version.
• “No Strings Attached.” Men’s Journal, June (2008).
• “The Littlest Big Bang.” Popular Science, May (2008). Published version.
• “Editor’s Choice of Overture, by Yael Goldstein.” The Literary Review, Summer (2007).
• “Quantum Scoop: The Holy Grail of Particle Physics May Already Have Been Found.” Slate, June (2007). Published version.
• “Editor’s Choice of Stories in the Old Style, by Al Sim.” The Literary Review, Fall (2006).
• “Editor’s Choice of Branwell, by Douglas Martin.” The Literary Review, Summer (2006).