Selected Published Journal Articles
Industrial Distraction, Philosophy of Science (2025), with Cailin O’Connor
Effective theory building and manifold learning, Synthese (2025)
How Haag-Tied is QFT, Really?, Philosophy of Physics (2024), with Chris Mitsch and Marian Gilton
Rational factionalization for agents with probabilistically related beliefs, Synthese (2024)
Sloppy Models, Renormalization Group Realism, and the Success of Science, Erkenntnis (2023)
The Invention of New Strategies in Bargaining Games, Philosophy of Science (2022)
† High publication output in particle physics is a corollary of the large size of collaborations. I only list ATLAS papers to which I made a substantial personal contribution.
Refereed Conference Proceedings
Works in Progress
(Drafts available upon request.)
O’Connor, C., Weatherall, J. O., and Freeborn, D. P. W., Representing Multiple Beliefs in Epistemic Networks. Freeborn,
D. P. W., Gilton, M., and Mitsch, C., Haag as a How-To Theorem. Freeborn,
D. P. W., The Epistemic Role and Priority of Monte Carlo Simulations.
Freeborn, D. P. W., Rational Polarization for Agents with Multiple, Probabilistically Related Beliefs.
Convergence and Polarization for Agents with Bayesian Belief Networks.
Ball, B., Cline, A., Freeborn, D. P. W., Helliwell, A., and Loi-Heng, K., Computational Analysis for Philosophical Education: A Case Study in AI Ethics.
Ball, B., Freeborn, D. P. W., Imbriale, F., Mohanan, A., Petri, G., and Vuda, P., Structure Meets Strategy in the Misinformation Age. Freeborn, D. P. W., Genuine Compositionality in Signaling Games.