List of Publications by Topic

History and Philosophy of Physics 

• Geodesy and Universal Gravitation: Laplace's Test of Newton's Law (draft available upon request)

• The Promises and Pitfalls of Precision: Random and Systematic Error in Physical Geodesy, 1800-1910. Annals of Science. S.I.: Promises of Precision (forthcoming).

• Newton as Geodesist: The Problem of the Earth's Figure and the Argument for Universal Gravitation.* Newsletter of the American Physical Society 31 (2022). short summary & long version.

*Winner of the 2022 APS History and Philosophy of Physics Essay Price

Philosophy of Measurement

• The Epistemic Privilege of Measurement: Motivating a Functionalist Account. Philosophy of Science (forthcoming). philsci-archive preprint.

• Pluralizing Measurement: Physical Geodesy’s Measurement Problem and its Resolution, 1880-1924. Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science A 96 (2022), 51-67.*

*Winner of the 2021 Du Châtelet Price in Philosophy of Physics

• How Incoherent Measurement Succeeds: Coordination and Success in the Measurement of the Earth’s Polar Flattening. Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science A 88 (2021), 45-62.   

Applied Ethics / Values in Science

• The Limits of Conventional Justification: Industry Bias and Inductive Risk beyond Conventionalism. Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, S.I.: Public Research and Private Knowledge – Science in Times of Diverse Research Funding (2020).

Philosophy of Science [misc.]

• What is Philosophy of the Geosciences (draft available upon request - under contract and review at Philosophy Compass) [with Aja Watkins].

• Active Realism and the Reach of Scientific Truth [german], in Michael Jungert, et. al. (eds.): Wissenschaftsreflexion: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven zwischen Philosophie und Praxis (Paderborn: Mentis, 2020).

Global History of Science

• Theodolites at 20000 Feet: Justifying Precision Measurement during the Trigonometrical Survey of Kashmir, 1855-65. Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science 76, 3 (2022), 603-618.

Public Philosophy & History

• Discussion with Matt Teichman, “History and Philosophy of Measurement”, University of Chicago Elucidations Podcast (forthcoming).

• The Map of Kashmir that almost did not get made, Interview with Chandrima Banerjee, The Times of India, 18 Mar Edition (2021).

• Why does measurement need an epistemology and what could it look like? Elucidations: Philosophy Blog by the University of Chicago (2021) 

• Structuring Imperial Knowledge about India at the Great Exhibition of 1851. History of Knowledge: Blog by the German Historical Institute Washington (2019).

Book Reviews

• [With Aja Watkins]: "Naomi Oreskes: Science on a Mission: How Military Funding Shaped What We Know and Don't Know about the Ocean.". BJPS Review of Books.

• The Many Lives of Time: On Joseph Mazur’s ‘The Clock Mirage: Our Myth of Measured Time. Yale UP 2020’. The Cleveland Review of  Books (2020).