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Published work

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  • Kinematical equivalence and cosmic conspiracies, (with Caspar Jacobs). Forthcoming in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. In which we discuss the relationship between reduced and sophisticated theories, and show how kinematical categorical equivalence sheds light on the connections between (i) theoretical equivalence, (ii) so-called 'cosmic conspiracies', and (iii) the 'different explanatory structures' of reduced and sophisticated theories.

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  • A puzzle about covariance and gauge, (with James Owen Weatherall). Forthcoming in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. In which we argue that Yang-Mills theory is not generally covariant, and propose an explication of general covariance in terms of naturality/gauge naturality.

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  • Categorical equivalence and the kinematics-dynamics distinction. Forthcoming in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. In which I develop and motivate an extension to the categorical equivalence programme to the full space of kinematically possible models of a theory, beginning with a problem case from first-order logic discussed by Halvorson and co-authors.

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  • Are Maxwell gravitation and Newton-Cartan theory theoretically equivalent? Forthcoming in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. In which I discuss and clarify the relationship between Maxwell gravitation and Newton-Cartan theory, and argue that whether they are equivalent hinges on questions relating to the status of Newton's second law in Newton-Cartan theory and the kinematics-dynamics distinction.​​

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  • What is the value in an intrinsic formalism? Erkenntnis (2025). In which I critique a recent argument by Jacobs (2023) that only intrinsic formalisms are metaphysically perspicuous, and offer an alternative account, drawing on a distinction between which equations are physically meaningful within an extrinsic formalism and which are not.

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  • Many worlds or one: reply to SteegerSynthese 205: 170 (2025). In which I respond to a recent argument by Steeger (2022) that Bohmians are able to help themselves to the Deutsch-Wallace derivation of Born rule chance values.

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  • A primer on Carroll gravity, (with James Read). Classical and Quantum Gravity 42 (5): 055004 (2025). In which we provide a philosophical introduction to the formalism of Carroll gravity and its status as a limit of general relativity, and discuss some of its conceptually-interesting features.

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  • Is the Deutsch-Wallace theorem redundant? Philosophy of Physics 2 (1): 7 (2024). In which I address a recent wave of arguments that the Deutsch-Wallace theorem is redundant in Everettian quantum mechanics.

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Preprints

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  • What is this sophistication thing anyway? (with James Read). In which we propose a precise way of understanding the reduction/sophistication distinction, in terms of four-place relations between a pair of theories, their symmetries, and a map between their spaces of models.

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  • Natural theories (with James Owen Weatherall). In which we discuss the class of theories whose dynamics are given by natural equations, and show how naturality can be used to better understand a variety of questions related to, e.g., minimal coupling, the symmetries of theories, and well-posedness.

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Theses etc.

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  • A copy of my BPhil thesis is available for download here.​

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© 2025 by Eleanor March

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