His research interests are in all three areas: philosophy of science, history of science and history of philosophy of science, and in their intersections (philosophy of history next). In particular, issues of unity and pluralism, the application of mathematics, precision and approximation, scientific planning, modeling, causality, visual and material culture and 19th & 20th-century history of physics and philosophy of science (Victorian physics and philosophy of science, especially Maxwell, and Logical Empiricism, especially Neurath).
Cat has published numerous articles on the history and philosophy of science and its history as a discipline.
Research Interests: physics; unity of science; history of philosophy of science; visual and material culture and cognition; application of mathematics