Our Publications

Explore our wide range of publications. A list of all bachelor, master and PhD theses written by students at the RCNP can be found here.

2025

Manus R. Visser and Zihan Yan, 'Dynamical entropy of charged black objects'. ArXiv preprint.

Karla Weingarten, 'Understanding Particle Interactions: Feynman Diagrams as Representative Models'. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. Forthcoming.

Klaas Landsman, 'Het meetprobleem in de quantummechanica'. Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Natuurkunde.

Klaas Landsman, 'Philosophy of Mathematical Physics'. PhilSci Archive preprint.

Kian Salimkhani, Time and General Relativity. In N. Emery (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Time, pp. 325-334. New York: Routledge. Forthcoming.

Silvester Borsboom and Sebastian De Haro, 'Global Gauge Symmetry Breaking in the Abelian Higgs Mechanism'. ArXiv preprint.

Silvester Borsboom and Hessel Posthuma, 'Global Gauge Symmetries and Spatial Asymptotic Boundary Conditions in Yang-Mills theory'. ArXiv preprint.

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'. Nature Communications Physics.

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. 2026. Open Access.

2024

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.

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 Philosophy of Science. Forthcoming. Open Access.

Marij van Strien, 'Causality and Determinism'. In F. Padovani and A.T. Tuboly (eds.), Handbook of the History of Philosophy of Science. New York: Routledge. Forthcoming.

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. Forthcoming.

Marij van Strien, 'Why Bohm was Never a Determinist'. In A. Oldofredi (ed.), Guiding Waves In Quantum Mechanics: 100 Years of de Broglie-Bohm Pilot-Wave Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Forthcoming.

Marij van Strien, 'Determinism and Chance'. In E. Crull and E.L. Peterson (eds.), History and Philosophy of Modern Science: 1750-1900. Bloomsbury. Forthcoming.

2023

Klaas Landsman, 'Reopening the Hole Argument'. Philosophy of Physics. Open access.

Klaas Landsman and Kirti Singh, 'Is mathematics a game?'. ArXiv preprint.

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, 'Typical = Random'. Axioms. Open access.