Dr. N.C.M. (Niels) Martens

Buys Ballotgebouw
Princetonplein 5
Kamer 3.11
3584 CC Utrecht

Dr. N.C.M. (Niels) Martens

Assistant Professor
History and Philosophy of Science
n.c.m.martens@uu.nl

These are my publications as recorded in PURE. For a full list, please click 'CV' in the menu on the left or visit my Google Scholar profile.

Publications

2024

Scholarly publications

Martens, N. (2024). Philosophy of Physical Magnitudes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009233705

2023

Scholarly publications

Marcoci, A., Thresher, A. C., Martens, N., Galison, P., Doeleman, S. S., & Johnson, M. D. (2023). Big STEM collaborations should include humanities and social science. Nature Human Behaviour, 7(8), 1229-1230. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01674-x
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/430715/s41562-023-01674-x.pdf?sequence=1
Martens, N. C. M., & King, M. (2023). Doing More with Less: Dark Matter & Modified Gravity. In Philosophy of Astrophysics: Stars, Simulations, and the Struggle to Determine What is Out There (pp. 91-107). (Synthese Library; Vol. 472). Springer Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26618-8_6
Johnson, M., Akiyama, K., Blackburn, L., Bouman, K. L., Broderick, A., Cardoso, V., Fender, R., Fromm, C., Galison, P., Gómez, J. L., Haggard, D., Lister, M., Lobanov, A., Markoff, S., Narayan, R., Natarajan, P., Nichols, T., Pesce, D. W., Younsi, Z., ... Wielgus, M. (2023). Key Science Goals for the Next-Generation Event Horizon Telescope. Galaxies, 11(3), Article 61. https://doi.org/10.3390/galaxies11030061
Galison, P., Doboszewski, J., Elder, J., Martens, N. C. M., Ashtekar, A., Enander, J., Gueguen, M., Kessler, E. A., Lalli, R., Lesourd, M., Marcoci, A., Ramírez, S. M., Natarajan, P., Nguyen, J., Reyes-Galindo, L., Ritson, S., Schneider, M. D., Skulberg, E., Sorgner, H., ... Wüthrich, A. (2023). The Next Generation Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration: History, Philosophy, and Culture. Galaxies, 11(1), 1-23. Article 32. https://doi.org/10.3390/galaxies11010032
Aluri, P. K., Cea, P., Chingangbam, P., Chu, M.-C., Clowes, R. G., Hutsemékers, D., Kochappan, J. P., Lopez, A. M., Liu, L., Martens, N. C. M., Martins, C. J. A. P., Migkas, K., Colgáin, E. Ó., Pranav, P., Shamir, L., Singal, A. K., Sheikh-Jabbari, M. M., Wagner, J., Wang, S.-J., ... Zhao, W. (2023). Is the observable Universe consistent with the cosmological principle? Classical and Quantum Gravity, 40(9), 1-103. Article 094001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/acbefc
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/428014/Kumar_Aluri_2023_Class._Quantum_Grav._40_094001.pdf?sequence=1

Popularising publications

Ritson, S., & Martens, N. (2023). A unique collaboration using a virtual Earth-sized telescope shows how science is changing in the 21st century. https://theconversation.com/a-unique-collaboration-using-a-virtual-earth-sized-telescope-shows-how-science-is-changing-in-the-21st-century-201556

2022

Scholarly publications

Martens, N. C. M., Sahuquillo, M. Á. C., Scholz, E., Lehmkuhl, D., & Krämer, M. (2022). Integrating dark matter, modified gravity, and the humanities. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 91, A1-A5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2021.08.015

2021

Scholarly publications

Martens, N. C. M. (2021). Dark Matter Realism. Foundations of Physics, 52, Article 16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-021-00524-y
Martens, N. C. M. (2021). The (un)detectability of absolute Newtonian masses. Synthese. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-019-02229-2
Martens, N. C. M., & Read, J. (2021). Sophistry about symmetries? Synthese. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02658-4

2020

Scholarly publications

Martens, N. C. M. (2020). Dark matter = modified gravity? Scrutinising the spacetime–matter distinction through the modified gravity/ dark matter lens. Studies In History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies In History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2020.08.003
Martens, N. C. M. (2020). Simplicity in the Sciences and Humanities: Report on the Bonn “Simplicities and Complexities” Conference. Journal for General Philosophy of Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10838-020-09499-2
Martens, N. C. M. (2020). Cartography of the space of theories: An interpretational chart for fields that are both (dark) matter and spacetime. Studies In History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies In History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2020.08.004

2019

Scholarly publications

Martens, N. C. M. (2019). Machian Comparativism about Mass. The British journal for the philosophy of science. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axz013
Martens, N. C. M. (2019). The metaphysics of emergent spacetime theories. Philosophy Compass. https://doi.org/10.1111/phc3.12596

2018

Scholarly publications

Martens, N. C. M. (2018). Against Laplacian Reduction of Newtonian Mass to Spatiotemporal Quantities. Foundations of Physics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-018-0149-0

2017

Scholarly publications

Martens, N. C. M. (2017). Regularity Comparativism about Mass in Newtonian Gravity. Philosophy of Science. https://doi.org/10.1086/694086