Substance and method : studies in philosophy of science Fictional models in science The hypothetical versus the fictional What is wrong with the new fictionalism of scientific models Re inflating the conception of scientific representation Idealization confirmation and scientific realism Laws and models in a theory of idealization Approximation and its measures Approximation idealization and the laws of nature Coordination of space and unity of science Gauge gravity and the unification of natural forces Models and theories II: issues and applications Models and theories I: the semantic view revisited Explaining quantum spontaneous symmetry breaking Review: symmetries in physics: philosophical reflections Classical spontaneous symmetry breaking Spontaneous symmetry breaking and chance in a classical world Approximations idealizations and models in statistical mechanics Infinite systems in SM explanations: thermodynamic limit renormalization (semi ) groups and irreversibility Explaining the emergence of cooperative phenomena A possible unified understanding of probabilistic objects Particularism and holism revisited Potential propensity and categorical realism The Aharonov Bohm effect and the reality of wave packets Realism and spacetime: of arguments against metaphysical realism and manifold realism Gauge invariance Cauchy problem indeterminism and symmetry breaking Is there a relativistic thermodynamics a case study of the meaning of special relativity