Books
with Cristian Lopez: Restoring science and the rule of law, London: Palgrave-Macmillan 2024, 224 pages.
Studies in Austrian Economics Series
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Land ohne Mut. Eine Anleitung für die Rückkehr zu Wissenschaft und Rechtsordnung
Berlin: Achgut Edition 2023, 201 pages
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with Christoph Lütge: Und die Freiheit? Wie die Corona-Politik und der Missbrauch der Wissenschaft unsere offene Gesellschaft bedrohen, München: riva April 2021, 128 pages.
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Science and human freedom. London: Palgrave-Macmillan 2020, 204 pages.
German edition Wissenschaft und Freiheit. Das naturwissenschaftliche Weltbild und der Status von Personen. Berlin: Suhrkamp December 2019 (stw 2298), 213 pages.
French edition Sciences et liberté. L'image scientifique du monde et le statut des personnes. Lausanne: Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes 2020, 174 pages.
Michael Esfeld & Dirk-André Deckert with Dustin Lazarovici, Andrea Oldofredi and Antonio Vassallo: A minimalist ontology of the natural world. New York: Routledge 2017, 200 pages (Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Mathematics and Physics volume 3).
La philosophie des sciences. Une introduction. Lausanne : Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, automne 2006. Deuxième édition révisée 2009. Troisième édition révisée automne 2017.
Italian translation of the second part Filosofia della natura. Fisica e ontologia, translated by Tiziano Ferrando, Andrea Oldofredi and Olga Sarno, Torino: Rosenberg & Sellier 2018.
La philosophie de l'esprit. De la relation entre l'esprit et la nature. Paris: Armand Colin 2005. Deuxième édition: La philosophie de l’esprit. Une introduction aux débats contemporains, Paris: Armand Colin 2012, Collection « Cursus », 204 pages. Troisième édition 2020, 248 pages.
Physique et métaphysique: une introduction à la philosophie de la nature. Lausanne: Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes 2012, 172 pages.
Michael Esfeld & Christian Sachse: Conservative reductionism. New York: Routledge 2011, 204 pages.
German version: Kausale Strukturen. Einheit und Vielfalt in der Natur und den Naturwissenschaften, Berlin: Suhrkamp 2010, 261 pages.
Naturphilosophie als Metaphysik der Natur. Frankfurt (Main): Suhrkamp 2008.
Einführung in die Naturphilosophie. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2002. Second edition, entirely revised 2011.
Holism in Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of Physics. Dordrecht: Springer-Kluwer 2001 (Synthese Library Volume 298) (Habilitation Thesis).
German version: Holismus in der Philosophie des Geistes und der Philosophie der Physik, Frankfurt (Main): Suhrkamp 2002 (stw 1572).
Mechanismus und Subjektivität in der Philosophie von Thomas Hobbes. Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog 1995 (Quaestiones 9).
Edited Books
Philosophie der Physik, Berlin: Suhrkamp 2012 (stw 2033).
John Heil. Symposium on his ontological point of view. Frankfurt (Main): Ontos-Verlag 2006.
Papers
2024
Michael Esfeld and Cristian Lopez: “Minimal metaphysics in moral and political philosophy”, Synthese 204 (2024), article no. 129.
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“Free society and free education”, XVIII. International Gottfried von Haberler Conference, Liechtenstein, 17 May 2024
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“Bohmian mechanics as Cartesian science”, in Angelo Bassi, Sheldon Goldstein, Roderich Tumulka and Nino Zanghì (eds.): Physics and the nature of reality. Essays in memory of Detlef Dürr. Cham: Springer 2024, pp. 383–392.
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“Veda, scientismus a pravni stat”, translated by Ivan Foletti, Re:vize. Pohledy na minulost a současnost 3-4 (2024), pp. 78-81.
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“Die Illusion der res publica”, in Hrvoje Jurić and Marcus Knaup (eds.): Leben in postpandemischen Zeiten. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2024, pp. 69–91.
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“Menschenbilder in den Naturwissenschaften”, in Michael Zichy (ed.): Handbuch Menschenbilder. Wiesbaden: Springer, Wiesbaden: Springer 2024, pp. 187–203.
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“Bildung und Urteilskraft”, in Harald Schulze-Eisentraut and Alexander Ulfig (eds.): Das Ende der Universität. Vom Untergang und der möglichen Erneuerung einer europäischen Institution. Baden-Baden: Deutscher Wissenschafts-Verlag 2024, pp. 158–167.
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“Wissenschaft, Medien und Öffentlichkeit”, in Hannah Broecker and Dennis Kaltwasser (eds.): Mediensystem und öffentliche Sphere in der Krise. Neu-Isenburg: Westend Verlag 2024, pp. 19-40.
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“Die Grundlagen der neuzeitlichen Naturwissenschaft”, in Akademie für freie Wissenschaften (ed.): Der Denker Jahrbuch 2024. Oberhofen am Irrsee: ars vobiscum Media, pp. 17-23.
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“Die Erfolgsgeschichte der westlichen Zivilisation fortsetzen”, Nachwort zu Manfred Haferburg und Klaus Dieter Humpich: Atomenergie: jetzt aber richtig. Berlin: Achgut 2024, pp. 219–236.
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2023
Alexander Afriat, Michael Esfeld and Paul Cullen: “Can the definitions of SARS-Cov-2 and Covid-19 stand up to epistemological scrutiny?”, Qeios, 6 October 2023, DOI 10.32388/VCFIQW (open peer review)
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Cristian López and Michael Esfeld : “Humean time-reversal symmetry”, Synthese 202, article no. 31.
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“Wissenschaftlicher und normativer Realismus”, Zeitschrift für Rechtsphilosophie. Neue Folge 6-7 (2022-2023), pp. 9-27.
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"Zwei Sichtweisen der Demokratie", in Annemarie Jost und Thomas Brunner (Hgg.): Perspektiven für den Wandel – Wege menschlicher Entwicklung zu Freiheit und sozialer Verantwortung. Berlin: Edition Immanente 2023, S. 299–313.
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"Moderne vs. Postmoderne: Wissenschaft und Rechtsstaat", in Wilhelm Hopf (ed.): Libertas. Jahrbuch für Meinungsfreiheit. Jahrgang 2, 2022/23. Münster: Lit-Verlag 2023, pp. 176–185.
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2022
Michael Esfeld and Guillaume Köstner, “Normative relations, mind points and social ontology”, Synthese, DOI 10.1007/s11229-022-03889-3, online first.
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"The metaphysics of Cartesian science", Filozojficzne Aspekty Genezy / Philosophical Aspects of Origin 19.2 (2022), pp. 165–189
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“Against levels of reality: the method of metaphysics and the argument for dualism”, in Stavros Ioannidis, Gal Vishne, Meir Hemmo and Orly Shenker (eds.): Levels of reality in science and philosophy. Re-examining the multi-level structure of reality. Cham: Springer, pp. 47–62.
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“Super-Humeanism and mental causation”, in Christopher J. Austin, Anna Marmodoro and Andrea Roselli (eds.): Powers, time and free will. Cham: Springer, pp. 257-272.
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"From the open society to the closed society: reconsidering Popper on natural and social science", Futures 137, e102920
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"Wenn das Exemplarische das Einzige ist. Überlegungen aus der Physik", in Michaela Summa and Karl Mertens (eds.): Das Exemplarische. Orientierung für menschliches Wissen und Handeln. Paderborn: Brill Mentis, pp. 155-173.
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“Corona-Politik: Die real existierende Postmoderne”, in Konstantin Beck, Andreas Kley, Peter Rohner and Pietro Vernazza (eds.): Der Corona-Elefant. Vielfältige Perspektiven für einen konstruktiven Dialog. Zürich: Versus, pp. 245-262.
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"Freiheit und Wissenschaft", in Sandra Kostner and Tanya Lieske (eds.): Pandemiepolitik. Freiheit unterm Rad? Eine interdisziplinäre Essaysammlung. Hannover: ibidem, pp. 15-20.
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"Wissenschaftsfreiheit und Rechtsstaat: eine vorläufige Bilanz zur Corona-Pandemie", in Harald Schulze-Eisentraut and Alexander Ulfig (eds.): Angriff auf die Wissenschaftsfreiheit. München: FinanzBuch Verlag, pp. 71-101.
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Michael Esfeld and Boris Kotchoubey: “Wie die Wissenschaft sich selbst zerstört”, in Rico Hauswald and Pedro Schmechtig (eds.): Wissensproduktion und Wissenstransfer unter erschwerten Bedingungen. Freiburg (Brsg.): Alber 2022, pp. 55–79.
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“Wie der politische Gebrauch von Wissenschaft die Wissenschaftsfreiheit unterminiert”, Zeitschrift für Politik 69 (2022), special issue no. 10 Wissenschaftsfreiheit, edited by Sandra Kostner, pp. 203–217.
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“Was kann die Wissenschaft wissen und was nicht?”, in Olivier Kessler and Peter Ruch (eds.): Wissenschaft und Politik. Zuverlässige oder unheilige Allianz?, Zürich: Edition Liberales Institut, pp. 73–93.
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2021
"Against the disappearance of spacetime in quantum gravity", Synthese 199 (Supplement 2), pp. S355-S369.
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"Super-Humeanism and free will", Synthese 198, pp. 6245–6258.
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"The open society and its new enemies", published by the Liberal Institute of Switzerland, 26 April 2021.
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reprinted in the European Scientist, 29 April 2021
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German "Die offene Gesellschaft und ihre neuen Feinde" publiziert vom Liberalen Institut , 19. April 2021.
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reprinted in the European Scientist, 29 April 2021
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French "La société ouverte et ses nouveaux ennemis" publié par l'Institut libéral de la Suisse, 26 avril 2021.
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reprinted in the European Scientist, 29 April 2021
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reprinted in Nicolas Jutzet et Victoria Curzon Price (eds.): Les défis de l’après-Covid. Déconfiner la liberté. Lausanne: Institut Libéral 2021, pp. 107–121.
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with Günter Kampf: “SARS-CoV-2: a general recommendation to adhere to governmental regulations cannot be evidence-based”, Journal of Hospital Infection 115, pp. 135-136.
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“Vorwort zu Günter Kampf, Wissenschaft ist frei. Auch in der Pandemie?”, Hamburg: Tredition, pp. 10–13.
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“Wissenschaft als Staatsreligion” in Wilhelm Hopf (ed.): Libertas. Jahrbuch für Meinungsfreiheit. Jahrgang 1. Münster: Lit-Verlag, pp. 245–250.
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“Die Last der Freiheit” in Olivier Kessler and Beat Kappeler (eds.): Null-Risiko-Gesellschaft. Zwischen Sicherheitswahn und Kurzsichtigkeit. Zürich: Edition Liberales Institut, pp. 173–188.
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2020
"Science and enlightenment in the corona crisis", published by the Liberal Institute of Switzerland, 21 Dec. 2020.
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German "Wissenschaft und Aufklärung in der Corona-Krise" publiziert vom Liberalen Institut , 14. Dez. 2020.
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French "Sciences et Lumières durant la crise du coronavirus" publié par l'Institut libéral de la Suisse, 28 déc. 2020.
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“From the measurement problem to the primitive ontology programme”, in Valia Allori, Angelo Bassi, Detlef Dürr and Nino Zanghì (eds.): Do wave functions jump? Perspectives of the work of GianCarlo Ghirardi, Cham: Springer, pp. 95-108.
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"A proposal for a minimalist ontology", Synthese 197, pp. 1889–1905.
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"Super-Humeanism: the Canberra plan for physics", in David Glick, George Darby and Anna Marmodoro (eds.): The foundation of reality: fundamentality, space and time. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 125-138.
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French version "Super-Humeanisme: le plan de Canberra pour la métaphysique de la physique", in Raphaël Künstler (ed.): Métaphysique et sciences. Nouveaux problèmes. Paris: Hermann, pp. 321-346.
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"‘Thing’ and ‘non-thing’ ontologies", in Ricki Bliss and James Miller (eds.): Routledge handbook of metametaphysics. New York: Routledge, pp. 459-467.
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"Ontolgie der Natur (moderne Physik)", in Jan Urbich and Joerg Zimmer (eds.): Handbuch Ontologie. Stuttgart: Metzler, pp. 524-530.
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2019
Dirk-André Deckert, Michael Esfeld and Andrea Oldofredi: "A persistent particle ontology for QFT in terms of the Dirac sea", British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 70, pp. 747-770.
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"Individuality and the account of non-locality: the case for the particle ontology in quantum physics", in Olimpia Lombardi, Sebastian Fortin, Cristian López and Federico Holik (eds.): Quantum worlds. Perspectives on the ontology of quantum mechanics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 222–244.
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Andrea Oldofredi and Michael Esfeld: "Observability, unobservability and the Copenhagen interpretation in Dirac’s methodology of physics", Quanta 8, pp. 68–87.
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"Why determinism in physics has no implications for free will", Organon F. International Journal of Analytic Philosophy 26, pp. 62–85.
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“The principle of causal completeness. Reply to Daniel von Wachter”, Organon F. International Journal of Analytic Philosophy 26, pp. 169–174.
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"Holisme et réalisme scientifique", Revue des sciences philosophiques et théologiques 103, pp. 7–21.
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2018
Michael Esfeld and Dirk-André Deckert: "Authors’ response: the virtues of minimalism in ontology and epistemology", Metascience 27, pp. 443–451, Book symposium on Michael Esfeld and Dirk-André Deckert: A minimalist ontology of the natural world. New York: Routledge 2017.
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"Metaphysics of science as naturalized metaphysics", in Anouk Barberousse, Denis Bonnay and Mikaël Cozic (eds.). The philosophy of science. A companion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 142–170.
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Dustin Lazarovici, Andrea Oldofredi and Michael Esfeld: "Observables and unobservables in quantum mechanics: How the no-hidden-variables theorems support the Bohmian particle ontology", Entropy 20, 381. Special issue Emergent Quantum Mechanics – David Bohm Centennial Perspectives.
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"Collapse or no collapse? What is the best ontology of quantum mechanics in the primitive ontology framework?", in Shan Gao (ed.): Collapse of the wave function. Models, ontology, origin, and implications. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 167–184.
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Andrea Oldofredi and Michael Esfeld: “On the possibility of a realist ontological commitment in quantum mechanics”, Tropos. Journal of Hermeneutics and Philosophical Criticism XI, pp. 11–33.
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"Quantenphysik und Naturverständnis", in Helmut Reinalter (ed.): Quantenphysik und Philosophie. Interdisziplinäre Forschungen Band 30. Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press, pp. 41-51.
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"Matière en mouvement vs. géométrisation de la matière: Descartes et la philosophie de la nature moderne", in Thibaut Gress (ed.): Cheminer avec Descartes. Concevoir, raisonner, comprendre, admirer et sentir. Paris: Classiques Garnier, pp. 275–292.
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2017
Antonio Vassallo, Dirk-André Deckert and Michael Esfeld: “Relationalism about mechanics based on a minimalist ontology of matter”, European Journal for Philosophy of Science 7, pp. 299-318.
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Michael Esfeld, Dustin Lazarovici, Vincent Lam, and Mario Hubert: "The physics and metaphysics of primitive stuff", British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 68, pp. 133-161.
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"How to account for quantum non-locality: ontic structural realism and the primitive ontology of quantum physics", Synthese 194, pp. 2329–2344.
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“La science comme libération”, in Marc Silberstein (ed.): Qu’est-ce que la science … pour vous ? 50 scientifiques & philosophes répondent. Paris: Editions Matériologiques, pp. 93–96.
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2016
Antonio Vassallo and Michael Esfeld: “Leibnizian relationalism for general relativistic physics”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 55, pp. 101-107.
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Andrea Oldofredi, Dustin Lazarovici, Dirk-André Deckert and Michael Esfeld: "From the universe to subsystems: Why quantum mechanics appears more stochastic than classical mechanics", Fluctuations and Noise Letters 15, Special issue Quantum and classical frontiers of noise, pp. 164002: 1-16.
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"The reality of relations: the case from quantum physics", in Anna Marmodoro and David Yates (eds.): The metaphysics of relations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 218-234.
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Mauro Dorato and Michael Esfeld: "The metaphysics of laws: dispositionalism vs. primitivism", in Tomasz Bigaj and Christian Wüthrich (eds.): Metaphysics in contemporary physics. Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 403–424.
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"Naturgesetze und Handlungskausalität", in Philipp Wolf and Dietmar Herdt (eds.): Mensch, Natur und Kosmos. Der Mensch im 21. Jahrhundert – Human- und Naturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven, Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, pp. 49–66.
2015
Matthias Egg and Michael Esfeld: "Primitive ontology and quantum state in the GRW matter density theory", Synthese 192, pp. 3229-3245.
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Antonio Vassallo and Michael Esfeld: "On the Importance of Interpretation in Quantum Physics. A Reply to Elise Crull." Foundations of Physics 45, pp. 1533–1536.
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"Quantum physics and presentism", in Albrecht von Mueller and Thomas Filk (eds.): Re-thinking time at the interface of physics and philosophy. The forgotten present. Cham: Springer, pp. 231–248.
"Bell’s theorem and the issue of determinism and indeterminism", Foundations of Physics 45, pp. 471–482.
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Review of "Steven French, The structure of the world. Metaphysics and representation. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2014", Mind 124, pp. 334-338.
2014
Michael Esfeld, Dustin Lazarovici, Mario Hubert, and Detlef Dürr: "The ontology of Bohmian mechanics", The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 65, pp. 773–796.
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"The primitive ontology of quantum physics: guidelines for an assessment of the proposals", Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 47, pp. 99-106.
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"Physics and intrinsic properties", in Robert Francescotti (ed.): Companion to intrinsic properties. Berlin: de Gruyter, chapter 13, pp. 253–269.
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"Quantum Humeanism, or: physicalism without properties", The Philosophical Quarterly, 64, pp. 453–470.
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Michael Esfeld and Nicolas Gisin: "The GRW flash theory: a relativistic quantum ontology of matter in space-time?", Philosophy of Science 81, pp. 248–264.
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Matthias Egg and Michael Esfeld: "Non-local common cause explanations for EPR", European Journal for Philosophy of Science 4, pp. 181–196.
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Antonio Vassallo and Michael Esfeld: "A proposal for a Bohmian ontology of quantum gravity", Foundations of Physics 44, pp. 1-18.
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"Science and metaphysics: the case of quantum physics", in Anne Reboul (ed.): Mind, values and metaphysics. Philosophical essays in honor of Kevin Mulligan. Volume 1. Cham: Springer, pp. 267-285.
"Mentale Verursachung und dispositionaler Realismus", in Anne Sophie Spann and Daniel Wehinger (eds.): Vermögen und Handlung. Der dispositionale Realismus und unser Selbstverständnis als Handelnde. Münster: Mentis, pp. 113–132.
2013
“Reductionism today”, in Maria Carla Galavotti, Elisabeth Nemeth and Friedrich Stadler (eds.):European philosophy of science – Philosophy of science in Europe and the Viennese heritage. Cham: Springer, pp. 89–101.
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Vincent Lam and Michael Esfeld: "A dilemma for the emergence of spacetime in canonical quantum gravity", Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 44, pp. 286–293.
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“Ontic structural realism and the interpretation of quantum mechanics”, European Journal for Philosophy of Science 3, pp. 19–32.
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“Metaphysics and science” in Byron Kaldis (ed.): Encyclopedia of philosophy and the social sciences, Thousand Oaks (California): Sage, pp. 600–603.
“Contemporary metaphysics. Review of David J. Chalmers, Constructing the world, John Heil, The universe as we find it, and Theodore R. Sider, Writing the book of the world”, Metaphysica 14, pp. 143–148.
“Von Descartes lernen. Kommentar zu Thomas Buchheim, Neuronenfeuer und seelische Tat. Ein neo-aristotelischer Vorschlag zum Verständnis mentaler Kausalität”, Philosophisches Jahrbuch 120, pp. 102–108.
“Particules en mouvement: la conception physique de la matière”, in Marc Silberstein (ed.): Matériaux philosophiques et scientifiques pour un matérialisme contemporain. Paris: Editions Matériologiques, pp. 435–452.
2012
Vincent Lam and Michael Esfeld: “The structural metaphysics of quantum theory and general relativity”, Journal for General Philosophy of Science 43, pp. 243–258.
“Das Messproblem der Quantenmechanik heute: Übersicht und Bewertung”, in Michael Esfeld (ed.):Philosophie der Physik. Berlin: Suhrkamp, pp. 88–109.
Michael Esfeld, Christian Sachse and Patrice Soom: “Marrying the merits of Nagelian reduction and functional reduction”, Acta Analytica 27, pp. 217–230.
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“Causal realism”, in Dennis Dieks, Wenceslao J. Gonzalez, Stephan Hartmann, Michael Stöltzner und Marcel Weber (eds.): Probabilities, laws, and structures. The philosophy of science in a European perspective. Volume 3. Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 157-168.
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2011
"Brandoms Trilemma", in Christian Barth and Holger Sturm (eds.): Robert Brandoms expressive Vernunft. Historische und systematische Untersuchungen, Paderborn: Mentis, pp.209–229.
"Le réalisme scientifique et la métaphysique des sciences", in Anouk Barberousse, Denis Bonnay and Mikaël Cozic (eds.): Précis de philosophie des sciences, Paris: Vuibert, pp. 141-170.
"Funktion" in Armin G. Wildfeuer and Petra Kolmer (eds.): Neues Handbuch philosophischer Grundbegriffe, Freiburg (Breisgau): Alber, pp. 842–854.
“Das Wesen der Natur”, Spektrum der Wissenschaft June 2011, pp. 54–58.
"Wie bewegt der Geist den Körper? Das Problem der mentalen Verursachung", in Wolfgang Lienemann (ed.): Neuroscience. Bulletin der Vereinigung der Schweizerischen Hochschuldozierenden 37.2 (August 2011), pp. 30–37.
"Causal properties and conservative reduction", Philosophia naturalis 47-48 (2010-11), pp. 9-31.
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"Wozu Dispositionen?", in Carl Friedrich Gethmann (ed.): Lebenswelt und Wissenschaft. Deutsches Jahrbuch Philosophie 2. Hamburg: Meiner, pp. 433–439.
Michael Esfeld and Vincent Lam: “Ontic structural realism as a metaphysics of objects”, in Alisa and Peter Bokulich (eds.): Scientific structuralism. Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 143-159.
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Michael Esfeld and Christian Sachse: "Identität statt Emergenz. Plädoyer für einen konservativen Reduktionismus", in Jens Greve and Annette Schnabel (eds.): Emergenz. Zur Analyse und Erklärung komplexer Strukturen. Berlin: Suhrkamp, pp. 84–110.
2010
"Les fondements de la causalité", in Gérard Lambert and Marc Silberstein (eds.): Epistémologie de la médecine et de la santé. Matière première 1/2010. Paris: Editions Matériologiques, pp. 199–222.
"Causal overdetermination for Humeans?", Metaphysica 11, pp. 99–104.
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"Physics and causation", Foundations of Physics 40, pp. 1597-1610. Special issue in honour of the 80th birthday of Peter Mittelstaedt.
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Mauro Dorato and Michael Esfeld: "GRW as an ontology of dispositions", Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 41, pp. 41–49.
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Patrice Soom, Christian Sachse and Michael Esfeld: "Psycho-neural reduction through functional sub-types", Journal of Consciousness Studies 17, pp. 7–26.
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"Humean metaphysics versus a metaphysics of powers", in Gerhard Ernst and Andreas Hüttemann (eds.): Time, chance and reduction. Philosophical aspects of statistical mechanics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, chapter 7, pp. 119–135.
Michael Esfeld & Vincent Lam: "Holism and structural realism", in Robrecht Vanderbeeken and Bart D’Hooghe (eds.): Worldviews, science and us. Studies of analytical metaphysics. A selection of topics from a methodological perspective. Singapore: World Scientific, pp. 10–31.
"Normen und mentale Eigenschaften in der physikalischen Welt." Diskussionsbeitrag zu Peter Stemmer, Normativität. Eine ontologische Untersuchung. Berlin: de Gruyter 2008, Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 58, pp. 145–148.
"Comment on David Papineau, Can any sciences be special?" in: Graham and Cynthia MacDonald (eds.): Emergence in mind. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.198–204.
2009
"Hypothetical metaphysics of nature", in Michael Heidelberger and Gregor Schiemann (eds.): The significance of the hypothetical in the natural sciences. Berlin: de Gruyter, pp. 341–364.
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Michael Esfeld and Vincent Lam: "Structures as the objects of fundamental physics", in Uljana Feest, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger and Günter Abel (eds.): Epistemic objects, Berlin: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Preprint 374, pp. 3–16.
"Inferentialism and the normativity trilemma", in Damiano Canale and Giovanni Tuzet (eds.): The rules of inference. Inferentialism in law and philosophy. Milano: Egea, pp. 13–28.
"La théorie causale des propriétés", Klesis 13, pp. 56–68.
"Descartes, Leibniz und das Problem der mentalen Verursachung", in Jean Ferrari, Pierre Guenancia, Margit Ruffing, Robert Theis and Matthias Vollet (eds.): Descartes und Deutschland / Descartes et Allemagne, Hildesheim: Olms, pp. 99–109.
Michael Esfeld & Jens Harbecke, Article “Cauality” in Marc D. Binder, Nobutaka Hirokawa and Uwe Windhorst (eds.): Encyclopedia of neuroscience, Berlin: Springer, pp. 583-587.
Article “Explanation (deductive-nomological, mereological, reductive)” in Marc D. Binder, Nobutaka Hirokawa and Uwe Windhorst (eds.): Encyclopedia of neuroscience, Berlin: Springer, pp. 1495-1498.
"The modal nature of structures in ontic structural realism", International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 23, pp. 179-194.
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French translation: "La nature modale des structures physiques selon le réalisme structural ontologique", in Soazig LeBihan (ed.): Précis de philosophie de la physique. Paris: Vuibert 2013, pp. 324–340.
Michael Herzog & Michael Esfeld: "How the mind constitutes itself through perceptual learning",Learning & Perception 1, pp. 147-154.
2008
"Die Metaphysik dispositionaler Eigenschaften", Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung 62, pp. 323-342.
"Die philosophische Herausforderung der Naturwissenschaften", issue 10 of the series Quo vadis universitas? Kritische Beiträge zur Idee und Zukunft der Universität, ed. Hans-Ulrich Rüegger, University of Zurich, October 2008
"Cartwright on wholism", in Stephan Hartmann, Carl Hoefer and Luc Bovens (eds.): Nancy Cartwright's philosophy of science, London: Routledge, pp. 324-336. With a commentary by Nancy Cartwright pp. 337-338.
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Michael Esfeld & Vincent Lam: "Moderate structural realism about space-time". Synthese 160, pp. 27-46.
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Michael Esfeld & Michael Sollberger "Recent German books in the philosophy of mind", Dialectica 62, pp. 128-135.
"Mentale Verursachung und die neue Reduktionismus-Debatte in der Philosophie des Geistes", in Patrick Spät (ed.): Zur Zukunft der Philosophie des Geistes, Paderborn: Mentis, pp. 25-40.
2007
"La philosophie comme métaphysique des sciences", Studia Philosophica 66, pp. 61-76.
"Mental causation and the metaphysics of causation", Erkenntnis 67, pp. 207-220.
Michael Herzog, Michael Esfeld & Wulfram Gerstner: "Consciousness and the small network argument",Neural Networks 20, pp. 1054-1056.
Michael Esfeld & Christian Sachse: "Theory reduction by means of functional sub-types", International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 21, p. 1-17.
(preprint)
"Metaphysics of science between metaphysics and science", Grazer Philosophische Studien 74, pp. 199-213 (special issue Philosophical knowledge - its possibility and scope, Eds. Christian Beyer and Alex Burri)
(preprint)
Review of "Bernard d'Espagnat, On physics and philosophy, Princeton: Princeton University Press 2006. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 38B, pp. 989-992.
"Kausalität", in Andreas Bartels & Manfred Stöckler (eds.): Wissenschaftstheorie. Ein Studienbuch, Paderborn: Mentis, pp. 89-107.
2006
"The impact of science on metaphysics and its limits", Abstracta 2, pp. 86-101.
(preprint)
"Le sphinx quantique. Le problème de la mesure", Sciences et avenir hors série. Le paradoxe du chat de Schrödinger, No. 148 October/November 2006, pp. 30-34.
"La théorie de Bohm", Sciences et avenir hors série. Le paradoxe du chat de Schrödinger, No. 148 October/November 2006, p. 71.
"Scientific realism and the history of science", in G. Auletta (ed.): The controversial relationships between science and philosophy: a critical assessment. Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, pp. 251-275.
(preprint)
Michael Esfeld & Michael Sollberger: "Repräsentationaler oder direkter Realismus? Stellungnahme", Information Philosophie 3/2006, pp. 32-43.
"Der neue Reduktionismus". In: G. Abel (ed.): Kreativität. XX. Deutscher Kongress für Philosophie. Kolloquiumsbeiträge. Hamburg: Meiner. Pp. 951-965.
"From being ontologically serious to serious ontology", in Michael Esfeld (ed.): John Heil. Symposium on his ontological point of view, Frankfurt (Main): Ontos-Verlag, pp. 191-206.
"Popper on irreversibility and the arrow of time", in Ian Jarvie, Karl Milford and David Miller (eds.):Karl Popper: A centenary assessment, Aldershot: Ashgate, Chapter 45, pp. 57-70.
(preprint)
2005
"The causal homogeneity of biological kinds", History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 27 (2005), December issue, pp. 421-43.
(preprint)
Michael Esfeld and Michael Herzog: "Wenn der Geist Kopf steht - Philosophie. Leib-Seele-Problem", Gehirn & Geist 11 / 2005, pp. 56-60.
"Mental causation and mental properties", Dialectica 59, pp. 5-18.
"Le pragmatisme en sémantique et en épistémologie contemporaines", Philosophia Scientiae 9, pp. 31-47.
"Normativität der Bedeutung und normative Wissenschaftsphilosophie", in Bernward Gesang (ed.):Normative oder deskriptive Wissenschaftstheorie?, Frankfurt (Main): Ontos-Verlag, pp. 205-223.
2004
"Quantum entanglement and a metaphysics of relations", Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 35B, pp. 601-617.
(preprint)
"Philosophie als Beruf - und als Leidenschaft", in Helge Klausener (ed.): Berufe für Philosophen, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft October, pp. 31-41.
"Von einer pragmatischen Theorie der Bedeutung zur Philosophie des Geistes", in André Fuhrmann and Erik J. Olsson (eds.): Pragmatisch denken. Frankfurt (Main): Ontos-Verlag, pp. 147-168.
"L'anti-cartésianisme dans la théorie de la connaissance contemporaine", in Michael Esfeld and Jean-Marc Tétaz (eds.) : Généalogie de la pensée moderne. Volume d'hommage à Ingeborg Schüßler / Genealogie des neuzeitlichen Denkens. Festschrift für Ingeborg Schüßler, Frankfurt (Main): Ontos-Verlag, pp. 381-393.
"Wie direkt soll ein Realismus sein?", in Christoph Halbig and Christian Suhm (eds.): Was ist wirklich? Neuere Beiträge zu Realismusdebatten in der Philosophie. Frankfurt (Main): Ontos-Verlag, pp. 81-96.
2003
"Philosophical holism" (10000 words), in Encyclopedia of life support system, section Encyclopedia of social sciences and humanities, Unity of knowledge, Gertrude Hirsch Hadorn (ed.), Oxford: EOLSSPublishers.
with Marcel Weber: "Holism in the sciences" (10000 words), in Encyclopedia of life support system, section Encyclopedia of social sciences and humanities, Unity of knowledge, Gertrude Hirsch Hadorn (ed.), Oxford: EOLSS Publishers.
"Do Relations Require Underlying Intrinsic Properties? A Physical Argument for a Metaphysics of Relations", Metaphysica. International Journal for Ontology & Metaphysics 4, pp. 5-25.
"L'argument sémantique pour la dépendance corporelle de la pensée", Studia Philosophica 62: Der Körper in der Philosophie / Le corps dans la philosophie, pp. 119-131.
"Holismus und Atomismus in den Geistes- und Naturwissenschaften. Eine Skizze", in Alexander Bergs and Soelve I. Curdts (eds.): Holismus und Individualismus in den Wissenschaften. Frankfurt (Main): Lang, pp. 7-21.
"What are Social Practices?", Indaga. Revista internacional de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas 1, pp. 19-43.
"Freiheit im Denken", in Sibille Mischer, Michael Quante and Christian Suhm (eds.): Auf Freigang. Metaphysische und ethische Annäherungen an die menschliche Freiheit, Münster: Lit, pp. 127-142.
"Regelfolgen zwanzig Jahre nach Kripkes Wittgenstein", Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung 57, pp. 128-138.
2002
Review of "Trish Glazebrook, Heidegger's Philosophy of Science. New York: Fordham University Press 2000", International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 16, pp. 300-302.
"Grenzen der Bedeutungsexplikation. Argumente für eine pragmatische Theorie der Bedeutung", in Wolfram Hogrebe (ed.): Grenzen und Grenzüberschreitungen. XIX. Deutscher Kongreß für Philosophie 23. bis 27. September 2002 in Bonn. Sektionsbeiträge, Bonn: Sinclair Press, pp. 1041-1050.
"Was besagt semantischer Holismus? Zwei Möglichkeiten der Konzeptualisierung", in Georg W. Bertram and Jasper Liptow (eds.): Holismus in der Philosophie. Ein zentrales Motiv der Gegenwartsphilosophie, Weilerswist: Velbrück, pp. 41-58.
"Quantentheorie: Herausforderung an die Philosophie!", in Jürgen Audretsch (ed.): Verschränkte Welt. Faszination der Quanten, Berlin: Wiley-VCH, pp. 197-217.
"The Purpose of a Normative Account of the Content of our Beliefs", in Wolfram Hinzen and Hans Rott (eds.): Belief and Meaning: Essays at the Interface, Frankfurt (Main): Hänsel-Hohenhausen, pp. 183-198.
"Externalism about Content: Its Social and Its Physical Roots", Filosoficky Casopis 50, pp. 387-400 (Special issue of the Philosophical Journal of the Czech Academy on externalism, Tomás Marvan, David Mik eds.).
Brief review of "Peter Bieri, Das Handwerk der Freiheit. Über die Entdeckung des eigenen Willens. München: Hanser 2001", Gehirn und Geist 1, issue 2, p. 95.
Brief review of "Michael Pauen and Achim Stephan (eds.): Phänomenales Bewußtsein - Rückkehr zur Identitätstheorie? Paderborn: Mentis 2002", Gehirn und Geist 1, issue 3, p. 97.
2001
"Atomism and Holism (Philosophical Aspects)" in Paul B. Baltes and Neil J. Smelser (eds.):International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Amsterdam: Elsevier, Volume 2, pp. 859-864.
"What can Heidegger's Being and Time Tell Today's Analytic Philosophy?", Philosophical Explorations 4, pp. 46-62.
"Lewis' Causation and Quantum Correlations", in Wolfgang Spohn, Marion Ledwig and Michael Esfeld (eds.): Current Issues in Causation, Paderborn: Mentis, pp. 175-189.
"How a Social Theory of Meaning can be connected with Realism", Facta Philosophica 3, pp. 111-131.
"Review of Rae Langton, Kantian Humility. Our Ignorance of Things in Themselves, Oxford: Oxford University Press 1998", Erkenntnis 54, pp. 399-403.
"Review of Max Kistler, Causalité et lois de la nature, Paris: Vrin 1999", Dialectica 55, pp. 181-184.
"Der Pragmatismus in der Gegenwartsphilosophie", Information Philosophie 3/2001, August 2001, pp. 24-31.
"Gonseth and Quine", Dialectica 55, pp. 199-219.
"Social Externalism and Physical Externalism about Content", in Ansgar Beckermann and Christian Nimtz (eds.): Proceedings of the fourth Congress of the Gesellschaft für analytische Philosophie, Paderborn: Mentis, pp. 259-267, electronic publication.
"La normativité sociale du contenu conceptuel", Cahiers de Philosophie de l'Université de Caen 37 (La normativité), pp. 215-232, publication on CD-rom.
2000
"Quine's Holism and Quantum Holism", Epistemologia 23, pp. 51-75.
"Das Regelfolgen-Argument für die Komplementarität naturwissenschaftlichen und hermeneutischen Wissens", prima philosophia 13, pp. 43-52.
Review of "Bernd Ludwig, Die Wiederentdeckung des Epikureischen Naturrechts. Zu Hobbes' philosophischer Entwicklung von De Cive zum Leviathan im Pariser Exil 1640-1651, Frankfurt (Main): Klostermann 1998", Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung 54, pp. 128-132.
"Is Quantum Indeterminism Relevant to Free Will?", Philosophia Naturalis 37, pp. 177-187.
"Ein Argument für sozialen Holismus und Überzeugungs-Holismus", Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung 54, pp. 387-407.
"Aristotle's Direct Realism in de Anima", The Review of Metaphysics 54, pp. 321-336.
1999
"Quantum Holism and the Philosophy of Mind", Journal of Consciousness Studies 6, pp. 23-38.
"Holism in Cartesianism and in Today's Philosophy of Physics", Journal for General Philosophy of Science 30, pp. 17-36.
"Der Holismus der Quantenphysik: seine Bedeutung und seine Grenzen", Philosophia Naturalis 36, pp. 157-185.
"Wigner's View of Physical Reality. Essay review of Jagdish Mehra (ed.): The Collected Works of Eugene Paul Wigner. Part B. Historical, Philosophical, and Socio-Political Papers. Volume VI: Philosophical Reflections and Syntheses", Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 30B, pp. 145-154.
"Was es heißt, Überzeugungen zu haben. Argumente für den semantischen Holismus", in Winfried Löffler / Edmund Runggaldier (eds.): Akten des V. Kongresses der österreichischen Gesellschaft für Philosophie, Teil 1, Wien: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, pp. 350-354.
"Rule-Following and the Ontology of the Mind", in Uwe Meixner and Peter Simons (eds.): Metaphysics in the Post-Metaphysical Age. Papers of the 22nd International Wittgenstein Symposium, Contributions of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, Vol. VII (1), Kirchberg: Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, pp. 191-196.
Review of "Robert B. Brandom, Making It Explicit. Reasoning, Representing, and Discursive Commitment, Cambridge (Massachusetts): Harvard University Press 1994", Erkenntnis 51, pp. 333-346.
"Physicalism and Ontological Holism", Metaphilosophy 30, pp. 319-337.
1998
"Holism and Analytic Philosophy", Mind 107, pp. 365-380.
"Holismus und Verbindungen zwischen der Philosophie des Geistes und der Philosophie der Physik",Conceptus 31, issue no. 79, pp. 153-174.
"Komplementarität von Rationalitätstypen? Apel und Bohr", prima philosophia 11, pp. 283-292.
"Outils analytiques pour une conception générale du holisme", in Pascal Engel (ed.): Philosophie Analytique. Cahiers de l'Université de Caen 31-32 (1997/98), Caen: Presses Universitaires de Caen, S. 37-46.
1997
"Feldmetaphysik und Philosophie der Physik", in: Marcus Willaschek (ed.): Feld - Zeit - Kritik. Die feldtheoretische Transzendentalphilosophie von Peter Rohs in der Diskussion, Münster: Lit, pp. 63-81.
1996
"Spinoza et le holisme contemporain", in: La nature. Thèmes philosophiques. Thèmes d'actualité. Actes du XXVe Congrès de l'Association des Sociétés de philosophie de langue française Lausanne 25-28 août 1994, Cahiers de la Revue de Théologie et de Philosophie 18, pp. 200-204.
"Cartesianismus", "Holismus", "Komplementarität", "Subjektivität", "Substanz", "Transzendentalphilosophie", and ten further articles in Metzlers Philosophie-Lexikon, eds. Franz-Peter Burckhard and Peter Prechtl, Stuttgart: Metzler.
"Review of Axel Wüstehube (ed.): Pragmatische Rationalitätstheorien, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 1995", Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung 50, pp. 515-519.
1995
"Ontischer Holismus versus methodischer Reduktionismus. Ein Widerspruch in der Naturphilosophie von Descartes und Spinoza", Philosophia Naturalis 32, pp. 71-99.
1994
"Neue Hobbes-Literatur", Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung 48, pp. 270-283.
1993
"Mechanismus und Subjektivität. Hobbes' Realitätskonzeption und die Problematik des menschlichen Selbstverständnisses in der modernen Welt", in: Allgemeine Gesellschaft für Philosophie in Deutschland (ed.): Neue Realitäten - Herausforderung der Philosophie. XVI. Deutscher Kongreß für Philosophie, Sektionsbeiträge I, Berlin: Verlag der Technischen Universität Berlin, pp. 495-502.