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).