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Books
The Cosmic Microwave Background: Historical and Philosophical Lessons with Milan Ćirković. Cambridge University Press, June 2024.
Reviews:
- by Steven J. Dick (ex Chief Historian of NASA) in Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage
- by Phillip Helbig, in Observatory
From Data to Quanta: Niels Bohr's Vision of Physics
University of Chicago Press, 2021.
Reviews:
Kvantna revolucija. Heliks, 2019.
Trnovit put do Higsovog bozona. Heliks, 2015.
Reference works
- Experiments in Physics (with Allan Franklin), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Experiments in Physics, Oxford Bibliographies (Philosophy), Oxford University Press
Papers
History and philosophy of cosmology
- Grasping Observational Facts in Modern Cosmology, Perspectives on Science, 33(4), 423–455, 2025. (click on PDF for free version)
- The Copernican Principle and Evidence in Modern Cosmology. Dispositions, and Dispositions and Values: Conference Proceedings, Balkan Analytic Forum, Vol. 2, 2025.
- A speculative turn in science and in philosophy of science (with Milan Ćirković), Metaphilosophy, Vol 55(3), 351–364, 2024.
- Romantic versus Toolbox Science and the Fate of Modern Cosmology. Belgrade Philosophical Annual 37(2), 29–42, 2024.
- Alternative Explanations of the Cosmic Microwave Background: A Historical and an Epistemological Perspective (with Milan M. Ćirković), Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Part B, 62, 1–18, 2018.
Epistemology of experimentation
- (Dis)satisfaction of female and early-career researchers with the academic system in physics (with Sikimić, V. — first author, Damnjanović, K.), Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, 29(2), 25–50, 2023.
- Observation, Experiment, and Scientific Practice, International Studies in Philosophy of Science, 34(1), 1–10, 2021.
- How Theories of Induction Can Streamline Measurements of Scientific Performance (with V. Sikimic), Journal For General Philosophy of Science, Vol. 51(2), 267–291, 2020.
- Egalitarian Paradise or Factory Drudgery? Organizing Knowledge in High Energy Physics (HEP) Laboratories, Social Epistemology, Vol. 32(4), 241–261, 2018.
- When Should We Stop Investing in a Scientific Project? The Halting Problem in Experimental Physics (with V. Sikimic and S. Radovanovic), Empirical Research in Psychology Conference Proceedings, University of Belgrade, 2018.
- Team and Project Composition in Big Physics Experiments, Philosophy and Society, 30(4), 535–542.
- Experimenter's Regress Argument, Empiricism, And the Calibration of the Large Hadron Collider, Synthese, Vol. 194(2), 313–332, 2017.
- Optimal Research Team Composition: Data Envelopment Analysis of Fermilab Experiments (with S. Radovanovic, V. Sikimic and A. Berber), Scientometrics, Vol. 108(1), 83–111, 2016.
- What Makes a Good Experiment? (with Allan Franklin), Theoria (Spain), Vol. 30, No. 2, 2015.
- Missing Experimental Challenges to the Standard Model of Particle Physics, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Part B, Vol. 42, 32–42, 2011.
Philosophy of biology
- Symmetry and Historicity in the Game of Life: Modifying Rules to Simulate Evolutionary Dynamics (with J. Tadić and A. Korenić), Symmetry, 2024, 16, 1024.
- Prebiotic decluttering: The thermodynamic tail-wind to asymmetric autocatalysis, International Journal of Astrobiology, 22(1), 15–32, 2023.
- Symmetry breaking and functional incompleteness in biological systems (with Andrej Korenić, Milan Ćirković, Paul-Antoine Miquel), Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Vol. 150, 1–12, 2020.
- The complexity-based explanatory strategy, biological levels, and the origin of life, Rivista di Estetica, 69/3, 2018.
- Causes and Entities in Biology, in G. Bianco, O. Švec, C. Jeler, A. François, I. Vuković, eds., French Epistemology, Erraphis — University of Toulouse, and Institute for Philosophy, University of Belgrade, pp. 202–222, 2014.
- The rebirth of the morphogenetic field as an explanatory tool in biology, Filozofija i drustvo, 24(4), 181–198, 2013.
- Fine-Tuning Nativism: 'Nurtured Nature' and Innate Cognitive Structures (with L. Radenovic), Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, Vol. 10, No. 3, 399–417, 2011.
- Gene's Action and Reciprocal Causation (with Paul-Antoine Miquel), Foundations of Science, Vol. 16, 31–46, 2011.
- The Limitations of Kim's Reductive Physicalism in Accounting for Living Systems and an Alternative Nonreductionist Ontology, Acta Biotheoretica, Vol. 55, 243–267, 2007.
History and philosophy of quantum mechanics
- Niels Bohr's Complementarity and Quantum Tunneling, in H. Folse and J. Faye eds., Niels Bohr and the Philosophy of Physics: Twenty-First Century Perspectives, Bloomsbury, 2017. (preprint, review of the book)
- Emergence of Complementarity and the Baconian Roots of Niels Bohr's Method, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Part B, 44(3), 162–173, 2013.
- Why Were Matrix Mechanics and Wave Mechanics Considered Equivalent? Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Part B, Vol. 39, 444–461, 2008. (Highlighted in Nature Physics 4, 349, 2008)
- Why Were Two Logically Distinct Theories Deemed Equivalent in Quantum Mechanics? First Annual Conference in the Foundations and History of Quantum Physics, Max Planck Institute for History of Science Conference Proceedings, Vol. 2, 2008.
- Schrödinger's Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics and the Relevance of Bohr's Experimental Critique, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Part B, Vol. 37/2, 275–297, 2006.
- A Recent Revival of Schrödinger's Ideas on Interpreting Quantum Mechanics, and Their Early Experimental Critique, Khrennikov, A., ed., Foundations of Probability and Physics – 3, American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings Series, 750, 316–21, February 2005.
- Schrödinger's and Everett's Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics, in Khrennikov, A., ed., Quantum Theory: Reconsideration of Foundations – 2, Växjo University Press, V.10, 747–67, 2003. (preprint)
Referee service
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Review essays and book reviews
- Alain Aspect, "Einstein and the Quantum Revolutions", University of Chicago Press, 2024 — in The British Journal for the History of Science, 2025.
- "Everything flows: towards a processual philosophy of biology", eds. D.J. Nicholson and J. Dupre, Oxford University Press (2019), 2022.
- "Seeking Depth in Science" (M. Strevens, "Depth: An Account of Scientific Explanation," Harvard University Press, 2008), Philosophy of Social Sciences, 42(4), 561–572, 2012.
- "Scientific Revolutions Revisited" (F. Weinert, "Copernicus, Darwin, & Freud: Revolutions in the History and Philosophy of Science", Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), Philosophy of Social Sciences, 40(3), 523–29, 2010.
- "Following in Schrödinger's footsteps" (Lars Göran Johansson, Interpreting Quantum Mechanics: A Realistic View in Schrödinger's Vein, Ashgate, 2007), Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, Vol. 29, 694–699, 2008.
- D. Kutach, "Causation and Its Basis in Fundamental Physics", International Journal for Philosophy of Science, 28(3), 347–349.
- G. Gutting, "What Philosophers Know: Case Studies in Recent Analytic Philosophy", Cambridge University Press, 2009, Studies in History and Philosophy of Life Sciences, Vol. 33(3).
- N. Maxwell, "Is Science Neurotic?" London: Imperial College Press, 2004, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 58/2, 361–363, 2007.
- F. Remedios, "Legitimizing Scientific Knowledge: Introduction to Steve Fuller's Social Epistemology," Lexington Books, 2003, Dialogue, Vol. XLVI(3), 620–622, 2007.
- B. Ellis, "The Philosophy of Nature: A Guide to the New Essentialism," Montreal: McGill&Queen's University Press, 2001, Philosophy in Review, April 2004.