Michael Esfeld (esfeld)

My contributions to Philosophie.ch

Bibliography

Dorato, Mauro and Esfeld, Michael. 2016. “The Metaphysics of Laws: Dispositionalism vs. Primitivism.” in Metaphysics in Contemporary Physics, edited by Tomasz F. Bigaj and Christian Wüthrich, pp. 403–424. Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities n. 104. Amsterdam: E.J. Brill.
Egg, Matthias and Esfeld, Michael. 2015. “Primitive Ontology and Quantum State in the GRW Matter Density Theory.” Synthese 192(10): 3229–3245.
Esfeld, Michael. 1995a. Mechanismus und Subjektivität in der Philosophie von Thomas Hobbes. Quaestiones n. 9. Stuttgart - Bad Cannstatt: Friedrich Frommann Verlag - Günther Holzboog.
Esfeld, Michael. 1995b. “Ontischer Holismus versus methodischer Reduktionismus. Ein Widerspruch in der Naturphilosophie von Descartes und Spinoza.” Philosophia Naturalis 32(1): 71–99.
Esfeld, Michael. 1998. “Holism and Analytic Philosophy.” Mind 107: 365–380.
Esfeld, Michael. 1999a. “Holism in Cartesianism and in Today’s Philosophy of Physics.” Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 30(1): 17–36.
Esfeld, Michael. 1999b. “Der Holismus der Quantenphysik: seine Bedeutung und seine Grenzen.” Philosophia Naturalis 36(1): 157–185.
Esfeld, Michael. 1999c. “Wigner’s View of Physical Reality [Review of Wigner (1995)].” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 30(1): 145–154.
Esfeld, Michael. 2000. “Aristotle’s Direct Realism in ‘De Anima’ .” The Review of Metaphysics 54(2): 321–336.
Esfeld, Michael. 2001a. Holism in Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of Physics. Synthese Library n. 298. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Esfeld, Michael. 2001b. “Review of Langton (1998).” Erkenntnis 54: 399–403.
Esfeld, Michael. 2001c. “Gonseth and Quine.” Dialectica 55(3): 199–220.
Esfeld, Michael. 2001d. “Review of Kistler (1999).” Dialectica 55(2): 181–184.
Esfeld, Michael. 2001e. “Lewis’ Causation and Quantum Correlations.” in Current Issues in Causation, edited by Wolfgang Spohn, Marion Ledwig, and Michael Esfeld, pp. 175–190. Paderborn: Mentis Verlag.
Esfeld, Michael. 2001f. “What Can Heidegger’s Being and Time Tell Today’s Analytic Philosophy?” Philosophical Explorations: An International Journal for the Philosophy of Mind and Action 4(1): 46–62.
Esfeld, Michael. 2002a. Holismus. In der Philosophie des Geistes und in der Philosophie der Physik. Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp Verlag.
Esfeld, Michael. 2002b. Einführung in die Naturphilosophie. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.
Esfeld, Michael. 2003. “Do Relations Require Underlying Properties? A Physical Argument for a Metaphysics of Relations.” Metaphysica 4(1): 5–25.
Esfeld, Michael. 2004. “Quantum Entanglement and a Metaphysics of Relations.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 35(4): 601–617.
Esfeld, Michael. 2005a. La philosophie de l’esprit : de la relation entre l’esprit et la nature. Paris: Armand Colin.
Esfeld, Michael. 2005b. Philosophie des Geistes. Eine Einführung. Berne Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science - Educational Materials n. 8. Bern: Berne Studies in the History; Philosophy of Science - Educational Materials.
Esfeld, Michael. 2005c. “Mental Causation and Mental Properties.” Dialectica 59(1): 5–18.
Esfeld, Michael. 2005d. “The Causal Homogeneity of Biological Kinds.” History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 27(3–4): 421–433.
Esfeld, Michael. 2006a. La philosophie des sciences. Une introduction. Lausanne: Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes.
Esfeld, Michael, ed. 2006b. John Heil. Symposium on his Ontological Point of View. Heusenstamm b. Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag.
Esfeld, Michael. 2006c. “From Being Ontologically Serious to Serious Ontology.” in John Heil. Symposium on his Ontological Point of View, edited by Michael Esfeld, pp. 191–212. Heusenstamm b. Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag.
Esfeld, Michael. 2006d. “The Impact of Science on Metaphysics and its Limits.” Abstracta – Linguagem, Mente e Ação 2(2): 86–101.
Esfeld, Michael. 2007a. “Mental Causation and the Metaphysics of Causation.” Erkenntnis 67: 207–220.
Esfeld, Michael. 2007b. “Metaphysics of Science Between Metaphysics and Science.” Grazer Philosophische Studien 74: 199–213.  “Philosophical Knowledge. Its Possibility and Scope,” ed. by Christian Beyer and Alex Burri.
Esfeld, Michael. 2008a. Naturphilosophie als Metaphysik der Natur. Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp Verlag.
Esfeld, Michael. 2008b. “Cartwright on Wholism.” in Nancy Cartwright’s Philosophy of Science, edited by Stephan Hartmann, Carl Hoefer, and Luc Bovens, pp. 324–336. Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 3. London: Routledge.
Esfeld, Michael. 2009a. La philosophie des sciences. Une introduction. 2nd ed. Lausanne: Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes. First edition: Esfeld (2006a).
Esfeld, Michael. 2009b. “Hypothetical Metaphysics of Nature.” in The Significance of the Hypothetical in the Natural Sciences, edited by Michael Heidelberger and Gregor Schiemann, pp. 341–364. Berlin: de Gruyter.
Esfeld, Michael. 2009c. “The Modal Natures of Structures in Ontic Structural Realism.” International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 23: 179–194.
Esfeld, Michael. 2010a. “Physics and Causation.” Foundations of Physics 40: 1597–1610.
Esfeld, Michael. 2010b. “Can Any Sciences Be Special? Comments on Papineau (2010).” in Emergence in Mind, edited by Cynthia Macdonald and Graham F. Macdonald, pp. 198–204. Mind Association Occasional Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199583621.001.0001.
Esfeld, Michael. 2010c. “Causal Overdetermination for Humeans?” Metaphysica 11(2): 99–104.
Esfeld, Michael. 2010d. “Humean Metaphysics versus a Metaphysics of Powers.” in Time, Chance, and Reduction: Philosophical Aspects of Statistical Mechanics, edited by Gerhard Ernst and Andreas Hüttemann, pp. 119–136. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Esfeld, Michael. 2010e. “Normen und mentale Eigenschaften in der physikalischen Welt.” Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 58(1): 145–169.
Esfeld, Michael. 2011a. “Science and Metaphysics: the Case of Quantum Physics.” in Philosophical Papers Dedicated to Kevin Mulligan, edited by Anne Reboul. Genève: Département de philosophie, Université de Genève. Reprinted in Reboul (2014, 1: 267–287), http://kevin.philosophie.ch.
Esfeld, Michael. 2011b. “Le réalisme scientifique et la métaphysique des sciences.” in Précis de philosophie des sciences, edited by Anouk Barberousse, Denis Bonnay, and Mikaël Cozic, pp. 141–205. Paris: Vuibert.
Esfeld, Michael. 2011c. “Einführung: ‘Wozu Dispositionen?’ .” in Lebenswelt und Wissenschaft, edited by Carl Friedrich Gethmann, pp. 433–439. Deutsches Jahrbuch Philosophie n. 2. Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, doi:10.28937/978-3-7873-2399-9.
Esfeld, Michael. 2012a. Physique et métaphysique. Une introduction à la philosophie de la nature. Lausanne: Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes.
Esfeld, Michael. 2012b. La philosophie de l’esprit. Une introduction aux débats contemporains. Paris: Armand Colin.
Esfeld, Michael. 2012c. Philosophie der Physik. Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp Verlag.
Esfeld, Michael. 2012d. “Das Massproblem der Quantenmechanik heute: Übersicht und Bewertung.” in Philosophie der Physik, pp. 88–109. Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp Verlag.
Esfeld, Michael. 2012e. “Causal Realism.” in Probabilities, Laws, and Structures, edited by Dennis Dieks, Wenceslao J. González, Stephan Hartmann, Michael Stöltzner, and Marcel Weber, pp. 157–168. The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective n. 3. Berlin: Springer.
Esfeld, Michael. 2013a. “Ontic Structural Realism and the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.” European Journal for Philosophy of Science 3(1): 19–32, doi:10.1007/s13194-012-0054-x.
Esfeld, Michael. 2013b. “Review of Chalmers (2012), Heil (2012) and Sider (2011).” Metaphysica 14(1): 143–148.
Esfeld, Michael. 2014a. “Physics and Intrinsic Properties.” in A Companion to Intrinsic Properties, edited by Robert M. Francescotti, pp. 253–270. Berlin: de Gruyter.
Esfeld, Michael. 2014b. “Mentale Verursachung und dispositionaler Realismus.” in Vermögen und Handlung. Der dispositionale Realismus und unser Selbstverständnis als Handelnde, edited by Anne Sophie Spann and Daniel Wehinger, pp. 113–133. Münster: Mentis Verlag.
Esfeld, Michael. 2014c. “Quantum Humeanism, or: Physicalism without Properties.” The Philosophical Quarterly 64: 453–470.
Esfeld, Michael. 2014d. “Reductionism Today.” in European Philosophy of Science – Philosophy of Science in Europe and the Viennese Heritage, edited by Maria Carla Galavotti, Elisabeth Nemeth, and Friedrich Stadler, pp. 89–101. Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook n. 17. Dordrecht: Springer.
Esfeld, Michael. 2015. “Bell’s Theorem and the Issue of Determinism and Indeterminism.” Foundations of Physics 45: 471–482.
Esfeld, Michael. 2016. “The Reality of Relations: the Case from Quantum Mechanics.” in The Metaphysics of Relations, edited by Anna Marmodoro and David Yates, pp. 218–234. Mind Association Occasional Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198735878.001.0001.
Esfeld, Michael. 2017. “How to Account for Quantum Non-Locality: Ontic Structural Realism and the Primitive Ontology of Quantum Physics.” Synthese 194(7): 2329–2344, doi:10.1007/s11229-014-0549-4.
Esfeld, Michael. 2020a. “Super-Humeanism: The Canberra Plan for Physics.” in The Foundation of Reality. Fundamentality, Space, and Time, edited by David Glick, George Darby, and Anna Marmodoro, pp. 125–138. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780198831501.001.0001.
Esfeld, Michael. 2020b. “Die real existierende Postmoderne.” Philosophie.ch, the Swiss Portal for Philosophy, https://www.philosophie.ch/de/2020-11-24-esfeld.
Esfeld, Michael. 2021. “Thing and Non-Thing Ontologies.” in The Routledge Handbook of Metametaphysics, edited by Ricki Leigh Bliss and J. T. M. Miller, pp. 459–467. Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy. London: Routledge, doi:10.4324/9781315112596.
Esfeld, Michael and Deckert, Dirk-André. 2018a. A Minimalist Ontology of the Natural World. Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Mathematics and Physics. New York: Routledge, doi:10.4324/9781315142272.
Esfeld, Michael and Deckert, Dirk-André. 2018b. “Authors’ Response [to Marmodoro (2018), Wilson (2018), Darby (2018) and Caulton (2018)].” Metascience 27(3): 443–451.
Esfeld, Michael and Gisin, Nicolas. 2014. “The GRW Flash Theory: a Relativistic Quantum Ontology of Matter in Space-Time?” Philosophy of Science 81: 248–264.
Esfeld, Michael and Lam, Vincent. 2008. “Moderate Structural Realism About Space-Time.” Synthese 160(1): 27–46, doi:10.1007/s11229-006-9076-2.
Esfeld, Michael and Lam, Vincent. 2009. “Holism and Structural Realism.” in Worldviews, Science and Us: Studies of Analytical Metaphysics. A Selection of Topics from a Methodological Perspective – Proceedings of the 5th Metaphysics of Science Workshop, Ghent, Belgium, 2-3 June 2005, edited by Robrecht Vanderbeeken and Bart D’Hooge, pp. 10–31. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co.
Esfeld, Michael and Lam, Vincent. 2011. “Ontic Structural Realism as a Metaphysics of Objects.” in Scientific Structuralism, edited by Alisa Bokulich and Peter Bokulich, pp. 143–160. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 281. Dordrecht: Springer, doi:10.1007/978-90-481-9597-8_8.
Esfeld, Michael and Lam, Vincent. 2012. “The Structural Metaphysics of Quantum Theory and General Relativity.” Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 43(2): 243–258, doi:10.1007/s11229-006-9076-2.
Esfeld, Michael, Lazarovici, Dustin, Lam, Vincent and Hubert, Mario. 2017. “The Physics and Metaphysics of Primitive Stuff.” The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 68: 133–161.
Esfeld, Michael and Sachse, Christian. 2010. Kausale Strukturen. Einheit und Vielfalt in der Natur und den Naturwissenschaften. Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp Verlag.
Esfeld, Michael and Sachse, Christian. 2011. Conservative reductionism. Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 8. London: Routledge.
Esfeld, Michael, Sachse, Christian and Soom, Patrice. 2012. “Marrying the Merits of Nagelian Reduction and Functional Reduction.” Acta Analytica 27(3): 217–230.
Esfeld, Michael and Sollberger, Michael. 2008. “New Books in the Philosophy of Mind.” Dialectica 62(1): 128–135.
Esfeld, Michael and Vassallo, Antonio. 2013. “From Quantum Gravity to Classical Phenomena.” in New Vistas on Old Problems – Recent Approaches to the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, edited by Tilman Sauer and Adrian Wüthrich, pp. 35–58. Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge Proceedings n. 3. Berlin: Edition Open Access.
Lazarovici, Dustin, Oldofredi, Andrea and Esfeld, Michael. 2018. “Observables and Unobservables in Quantum Mechanics: How the No-Hidden-Variables Theorems Support the Bohmian Particle Ontology.” Entropy 20: 381–397.
Spohn, Wolfgang, Ledwig, Marion and Esfeld, Michael, eds. 2001. Current Issues in Causation. Paderborn: Mentis Verlag.

Further References

Caulton, Adam. 2018. “A Persistent Particle Ontology for Quantum Field Theory [review of Esfeld and Deckert (2018a)].” Metascience 27(3): 439–441, doi:10.1007/s11016-018-0323-1.
Chalmers, David J. 2012. Constructing the World. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Darby, George. 2018. “A Minimalist Humeanism? [review of Esfeld and Deckert (2018a)].” Metascience 27(3): 433–437, doi:10.1007/s11016-018-0324-0.
Heil, John. 2012. The Universe As We Find It. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199596201.001.0001.
Kistler, Max. 1999. Causalité et lois de la nature. Paris: Librairie philosophique Jean Vrin.
Langton, Rae. 1998. Kantian Humility: Our Ignorance of Things in Themselves. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/0199243174.001.0001.
Marmodoro, Anna. 2018. “Atomism, Holism and Structuralism: Costs and Benefits of a Minimalist Ontology of the World [review of Esfeld and Deckert (2018a)].” Metascience 27(3): 421–425.
Papineau, David. 2010. “Can Any Sciences Be Special?” in Emergence in Mind, edited by Cynthia Macdonald and Graham F. Macdonald, pp. 179–197. Mind Association Occasional Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199583621.001.0001.
Reboul, Anne, ed. 2011. Philosophical Papers Dedicated to Kevin Mulligan. Genève: Département de philosophie, Université de Genève. Book publication: Reboul (2014), http://kevin.philosophie.ch.
Reboul, Anne, ed. 2014. Mind, Values, and Metaphysics. Philosophical Essays in Honor of Kevin Mulligan. vol. 1. Cham: Springer. Book publication of Reboul (2011).
Sider, Theodore. 2011. Writing the Book of the World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199697908.001.0001.
Wigner, Eugene P. 1995. The Collected Works of Eugene Paul Wigner. Part B. Historical, Philosophical, and Socio-Political Papers. Volume 6: Philosophical Reflections and Syntheses. Berlin: Springer. Edited by Jagdish Mehra, annotated by Gérard G. Emch.
Wilson, Alastair. 2018. “Super-Humeanism: Insufficiently Naturalistic and Insufficiently Explanatory [review of Esfeld and Deckert (2018a)].” Metascience 27(3): 427–431, doi:10.1007/s11016-018-0326-y.