Avril Styrman
PhD in Philosophy (2017)
In his doctoral thesis, he applies the method of economical unification in addressing philosophical questions. In the method, the Principle of Economy or Unificatory Power is applied as an evaluation criterion of scientific and philosophical theories and their fusions. The fusion of absolute simultaneity, presentism, the conservation law of energy in spherically closed space and ontological realism is identified as the most economical of the available fusions of philosophy and physics, and applied as the ontological ground for concepts and semantics and in addressing questions and resolving problems. “I am attracted by the Dynamic Universe due to its unificatory power and its compatibility with absolute simultaneity and presentism.”
Recent publications
- Avril Styrman. “Evaluation of Theories and Methodologies: Relativistic Physics vs. the Dynamic Universe”. In: Proceedings of the International Conference Cosmology on Small Scales 2024: Local Hubble Expansion and Other Cosmological Puzzles. Prague, September 19-21, 2024. Ed. by Michal Krizek and Yurii V. Dumin. https://css2024.math.cas.cz/proceedingsCSS2024.pdf. Prague: Institute of Mathematics, Czech Academy of Sciences, 2024, pp. 75–108.
- Avril Styrman. The Passage of Time as Causal Succession of Events. Journal of Philosophy, volume 120, number 12, pp. 681-697. https://doi.org/10.5840/jphil20231201237
- Avril Styrman. Tense Logic and Ontology of Time. FOUST 2021: 5th Workshop on Foundational Ontology. In Proceedings of the Joint Ontology Workshops 2021 Episode VII: The Bolzano Summer of Knowledge. Editors: Tiago Prince Sales and Emilio M. Sanfilippo. (Academia.edu, article)
- Avril Styrman, Only a unified ontology can remedy disunification, Journal of Physics, Conference Series 1466 (2020) 012001 (article)
- Avril Styrman, Economical Unification in Philosophy of Science Before and After Ernst Mach. In Friedrich Stadler (ed.) Ernst Mach – Life, Work, Influence. Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook, vol. 22, ch. 15, pp. 199-212. Springer, 2019. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-04378-0_15 (chapter)
- A. Styrman, Relativity vs. Absolute Simultaneity: Varying Flow of Time or Varying Frequency? Physics Essays 31(3), July 2018, DOI: 10.4006/0836-1398-31.3.256, 2018. (Academia.edu, ResearchGate, article)
- A. Styrman and Aapo Halko, Finitist Set Theory in Ontological Modeling. Applied Ontology, vol. 13, no. 2., pp. 107-133, 2018. DOI: 10.3233/AO-180196, (IOS Press, Wiki)
- A. Styrman, The Principle Of Economy As An Evaluation Criterion Of Theories. A Case Example: The Dynamic Universe Vs. Physics And Cosmology Based On General Relativity. In Tuomo Suntola and Avril Styrman, editors, Scientic Models and a Comprehensive Picture of Reality, La Nuova Critica, vol. 63-64, pp. 63–90, 2014; issue released on November 2016. (ResearchGate, Academia.edu)
Books
- A. Styrman, Unification in Physics and Philosophy 9-11 May 2019, Porvoo and Helsinki, Finland. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, vol.1466. IOP Publishing Ltd, 2020. (proceedings)
- A. Styrman, Economical Unification as a Method of Philosophical Analysis. PhD Thesis. University of Helsinki, Faculty of Arts, Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies, 2016. (ResearchGate, Academia.edu, Helda, pdf)
- Tuomo Suntola and Avril Styrman, editors, Scientific Models and a Comprehensive Picture of Reality, La Nuova Critica, vol. 63-64, pp. 63–90, 2014; issue released on November 2016. (Academia.edu, ResearchGate)