Work in Progress

Books and Edited Collections

• The Eclipse of Truth: How Your Friends Affect What You Think You Know—And Why It Matters in an Age of Alternative Facts, with Cailin O’Connor. Under contract with Yale 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

• “The Motion of Small Bodies in Space-time,” with R. Geroch. Preprint.
• “The Peculiar Logic of the Black-Scholes Model.” Preprint.
• “On Gravitational Energy in Newtonian Theories,” with N. Dewar. Preprint.
• “A Brief Comment on Maxwell(/Newton)[-Huygens] Spacetime.” Preprint.
• “Classical Spacetimes,” invited for inclusion in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Physics, E. Knox and A. Wilson, eds. Preprint.
• “Spacetime, Stress-Energy, and General Relativity in Two Dimensions”, with M. Schneider, S. Fletcher, and J. Manchak. Preprint.
• “Why Be Regular?” with B. Feintzeig, J. (Le)Manchak, and S. Rosenstock.
• “The Geometry of the Gauge Argument,” with B. Feintzeig.
• “Some Philosophical Prehistory of the Earman-Norton Hole Argument,” invited for inclusion in a special issue of Foundations of Physics on the hole argument, B. Roberts and J. Weatherall, eds.

Published work

Books and Edited Collections

• Void: The Strange Physics of Nothing. Forthcoming from Yale University Press: New Haven, CT (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, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Boston, MA. (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

• “Giving Econophysics a Chance: On Modeling Financial Crashes as Critical Phase Transitions,” with J. Jhun and P. Palacios. Forthcoming in Synthese. Preprint.
• “Conservation, Inertia, and Spacetime Geometry,” Forthcoming in Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics on Harvey Brown’s Physical Relativity, S. Saunders ed. 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 85(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

• “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

• “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).