Our Publications
Explore our wide range of publications. A list of all relevant bachelor, master and PhD theses written by students at the RCNP can be found here.
2026
Klaas Landsman, 'The Okinawa Lectures on Entropy'. ArXiv preprint.
Nino Dekkers and Klaas Landsman, 'Irreversibility and randomness'. Philosophy of Physics 4(1), 11. Open Access.
Henk W. de Regt, Milo D. Cornelissen, Vincent Coumans, Nina S. de Boer, Sebastian De Haro, Paul H. W. Disberg, Kristian González Barman, Maarten G. Kleinhans, Daniel Kostić and Ludo L. J. Schoenmakers, 'Scientific understanding across disciplines: in varietate concordia?'. Journal for General Philosophy of Science. Forthcoming.
Rasmus Jaksland and Kian Salimkhani, 'The Many Problems of Spacetime Emergence in Quantum Gravity'. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 77(3), pp. 795-821.
Ripunjay Dwivedi and Manus R. Visser, 'Holographic heat engines for Schwarzschild black holes'. ArXiv preprint.
Silvester Borsboom and Manus R. Visser, 'Black hole equations of state and response functions'. ArXiv preprint.
Nikesh Lilani and Manus R. Visser, 'Holographic Stirling engines and the route to Carnot efficiency'. ArXiv preprint.
Karla Weingarten, 'Productive Idealizations for Scientific Understanding: A Case Study in Effective Theories'. PhilSci-Archive preprint.
Kian Salimkhani & Matthias Rolffs, 'On Progress in Science and Metaphysics'. Synthese. 2026. Open Access.
Max Bloemers, 'Gedachte-experimenten Over Zwarte Gaten'. Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Natuurkunde.
Silvester Borsboom and Manus Visser, 'Holographic pressure and volume for black holes'. Classical and Quantum Gravity 43, 095018. Open Access.
Klaas Landsman, 'Philosophy of Mathematical Physics'. Cambridge Elements in the Philosophy of Physics. Cambridge University Press.
Marij van Strien, 'Causality and Determinism'. In F. Padovani and A.T. Tuboly (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the History of Philosophy of Science After Kant. New York: Routledge.
Manus R. Visser and Zihan Yan, 'Dynamical entropy of charged black objects'. Journal of High Energy Physics 02 (2026), 003. Open Access.
Silvester Borsboom and Sebastian De Haro, 'Global Gauge Symmetry Breaking in the Abelian Higgs Mechanism'. Philosophy of Physics 4(1), 6. Open Access.
Silvester Borsboom and Hessel Posthuma, 'Global Gauge Symmetries and Spatial Asymptotic Boundary Conditions in Yang-Mills Theory'. SciPost Physics 20, 185. Open Access.
2025
Florian J. Boge and Henk W. de Regt, 'Machine Learning Discoveries and Scientific Understanding in Particle Physics: Problems and Prospects'. In J.M. Durán and G. Pozzi (eds.), Philosophy of Science for Machine Learning, pp. 403-434. Cham: Springer. Open Access.
Marij van Strien, 'Review: Jim Baggot and John L. Heilbron, Quantum Drama: From the Bohr–Einstein Debate to the Riddle of Entanglement.' The British Journal for the History of Science 59(2), pp. 326-327.
Kian Salimkhani, 'Time and General Relativity'. In N. Emery (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Time, pp. 325-334. New York: Routledge.
Kian Salimkhani & Martin Voggenauer, 'On Solving the Problem of the Direction of Time'. In A. Hüttemann and G. Schurz (eds.), Inductive Metaphysics: Insights, Challenges, and Prospects, pp. 273-292. New York: Routledge. 2025. Open Access.
Oscar Westerblad and Henk W. de Regt, 'Scientific Understanding Beyond Representing: Lessons from Ian Hacking’s Work'. The Monist 108(4), pp. 353-371.
Erik Curiel, Manus Visser and Juliusz Doboszewski, 'Singularities and Black Holes'. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Substantive revision, July 2025.
Klaas Landsman, 'Rigour from rules: Deduction and definition in mathematical physics'. Invited contribution to The Philosophy of Rigour, eds. Dean Rickles and Karim Thébault (Routledge, to appear).
Klaas Landsman and Kirti Singh, 'Is Mathematics Like a Game?' Journal for General Philosophy of Science.
Karla Weingarten, 'Understanding Particle Interactions: Feynman Diagrams as Representative Models'. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. Published online (Just Accepted).
Klaas Landsman and Marij van Strien, 'Het meetprobleem in de quantummechanica'. Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Natuurkunde.
Marij van Strien, 'Why Bohm was Never a Determinist'. In A. Oldofredi (ed.), Guiding Waves in Quantum Mechanics: One Hundred Years of de Broglie-Bohm Pilot-Wave Theory, pp. 134-150. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Marij van Strien, 'How quantum mechanics changed science forever: Rationality, anarchy, and bad science'. IAI News, April 2025.
Martin Voggenauer, 'Explaining Objective Probabilities by Physical Symmetries'. Synthese.
Nikesh Lilani and Manus R. Visser, 'Heat engines for scale invariant systems dual to black holes'. Communications Physics.
Wan Cong, David Kubizňák, Robert B. Mann and Manus R. Visser, 'Holographic dictionary for Lifshitz and hyperscaling violating black holes'. Physical Review D.
Sergio E. Aguilar-Gutierrez, Andrew Svesko and Manus R. Visser, 'T\bar{T} deformations from AdS_2 to dS_2'. Journal of High Energy Physics.
2024
HK. Gonzalez Barman, S. Caron, T. Claassen, and H.W. de Regt, 'Towards a benchmark for scientific understanding in humans and machines'. Minds and Machines.
H.W. de Regt, 'Understanding in science and beyond'. In: A.I. Mărăşoiu and M. Dumitru (eds), Understanding and Conscious Experience: Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives, pp. 23-41. London: Routledge. Open Access.
Kian Salimkhani, 'A Dynamical Perspective on the Direction of Time'. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. Published online (Just Accepted). Open Access.
Marij van Strien, 'When Matter Ceased to Matter: The Disappearance of the Philosophical Problem of Matter from Physics in the Late Nineteenth Century'. In C. Wolfe and J. Symons (eds.), The History and Philosophy of Materialism. New York: Routledge.
Kian Salimkhani, The Non-Fundamentality of Spacetime – General Relativity, Quantum Gravity, and Metaphysics. London/New York: Routledge. 2024. (Review by Noel Swanson)
2023
Marij van Strien, 'Determinism and Chance'. In E. Crull and E.L. Peterson (eds.), History and Philosophy of Modern Science: 1750-1900. Bloomsbury. Forthcoming.
Marij van Strien, 'The Challenge of Quantum Mechanics to the Rationality of Science: Philosophers of Science on Bohr'. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science.
Klaas Landsman, 'Reopening the Hole Argument'. Philosophy of Physics. Open access.
Klaas Landsman, 'Typical = Random'. Axioms. Open access.
