Caspar Jacobs
University Lecturer Theoretical Philosophy
- Name
- Dr. C.A. Jacobs MPhil, MSc
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- c.a.jacobs@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-6903-0468
I am currently a University Lecturer in Theoretical Philosophy at Leiden University. My main research areas are philosophy of physics and philosophy of science. I am also interested in the metaphysics of quantities, Early Modern history and philosophy of science and philosophy of cognitive science.
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Fields of interest
My main research areas are philosophy of physics and philosophy of science. I am also interested in the metaphysics of quantities, and in Early Modern history and philosophy of science.
Research
My current research project concerns the use of dimensions, units and constants in physics. I want to know to what extent different systems for dimensions and units are conventional, and what the role of constants of nature is in such systems.
CV
I completed the DPhil (=PhD) in Philosophy at the University of Oxford. The topic of my dissertation was the interpretation of symmetry-related models. I then spent a year as a post-doc at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science of the University of Pittsburgh, where I worked on the nature of the gravitational constant. Just before coming to Leiden, I was a Junior Research Fellow at Merton College, University of Oxford.
For an up-to-date list of my publications, please see my PhilPeople profile: https://philpeople.org/profiles/caspar-jacobs
University Lecturer Theoretical Philosophy
- Faculty of Humanities
- Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte
- Jacobs C.A. (2024), Some neglected possibilities: a reply to Teitel, Journal of Philosophy 121(2): .
- Jacobs C.A. (2024), In defence of dimensions, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science : .
- Jacobs C.A. (2024), Comparativist theories or conspiracy theories?, Journal of Philosophy 121(7): 365-393.
- Jacobs C.A. (2023), Are dynamic shifts dynamical symmetries?, Philosophy of Science 90(5): 1352-1362.
- Jacobs C.A. (2023), Are models our tools not our masters?, Synthese 202: 121.
- Jacobs C.A. (2023), The metaphysics of fibre bundles, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 97: 34-43.
- Jacobs C.A. (2023), The nature of a constant of nature: the case of G, Philosophy of Science 90(4): 797-816.
- Jacobs C.A. (2022), Absolute velocities are unmeasurable: response to Middleton and Murgueitio Ramírez, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 100(1): 202-206.
- Jacobs C.A. (2022), Invariance, intrinsicality and perspicuity, Synthese 200: 135.
- Jacobs C.A. (2021), Invariance or equivalence: a tale of two principles, Synthese 199: 9337–9357.
- Jacobs C.A. (2021), The coalescence approach to inequivalent representation: pre-QM∞ parallels, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 74(4): .
- Jacobs C.A. (2020), Du Châtelet: idealist about extension, bodies and space, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 82: 66-74.