AHRC Metaphysics of Science project
Nature's Metaphysics: Laws and Properties
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2007) details.
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| Thomas Kuhn Chesham: Acumen,
Princeton: Princeton University Press (2000) details. (Spanish edition: Thomas Kuhn Madrid: Tecnos (2002) trans. Carmen Garcia Trevijano details.)
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Philosophy of Science London: UCL
Press, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press (1998) details.
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"What are Natural Kinds?" (with Katherine Hawley) Philosophical Perspectives 25 (2011) 205–21. |
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"The Epistemological Function of Hill's Criteria" Preventive Medicine 53 (2011) 85–96. |
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"Lange and Laws, Kinds, and Counterfactuals" Topics in Contemporary Philosophy volume 8: Carving Nature at its Joints (eds Joseph Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Matthew Slater) Cambridge MA: MIT Press (2011) 85–96. |
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"Are Any Kinds Ontologically Fundamental?" Contemporary
Aristotelian Metaphysics (ed. Tuomas Tahko) Cambridge University
Press (2011)
94–104. |
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"Waismann Versus Ewing on Causality" Vienna Institute
Institute Yearbook vol.14: Friedrich Waismann—Causality and Logical
Positivism (eds Brian McGuinness and Friedrich Stadler)
Springer (2011) 15–32. |
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"Philosophy of Science and Epistemology" Continuum Companion to the Philosophy of Science (eds Steven French and Juha Saatsi) London: Continuum (2011) 15–32. |
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"Inductive Knowledge" Routledge Companion to Epistemology (ed. Duncan Pritchard) Abingdon: Routledge (2011) 271–82. |
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"Thomas Kuhn’s Relativistic Legacy" Blackwell Companion to Relativism (ed. Steven Hales) Oxford: Wiley–Blackwell (2011) 456–74. |
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"Eliminative Abduction—Examples from Medicine" Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 41 (2010) 345–52. |
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"Social Knowing" Philosophical Perspectives 24
(2010) 23–56. |
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"The Epistemology of Science—A Bird's-Eye View" Synthese 175 (2010) 5–16. |
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"Causation and the Manifestation of Powers" Powers. Their Grounding and their Manifestations (ed. Anna Marmodoro) Abingdon: Routledge (2010) 160–168. |
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"A Posteriori Knowledge of Natural Kind Essences: A Defence" Philosophical Topics 35 (2010) 293–312 |
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"Discovering the Essences of Natural Kinds" The Semantics and Metaphysics of Natural Kinds (eds Helen Beebee and Nigel Sabbarton-Leary) Abingdon: Routledge (2010) 125–36. |
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"Are Natural Kinds Reducible?" Reduction and Elimination in Philosophy and the Sciences (eds Alexander Hieke and Hannes Leitgeb) Frankfurt: Ontos (2009) 127–36. |
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". . . And Then Again, He Might Not Be" Australasian Journal of Philosophy 87 (2009) 517–21. |
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"Essences and Natural Kinds" Routledge Companion to Metaphysics (eds Robin Le Poidevin, Peter Simons, Andrew McGonigal, and Ross Cameron) Abingdon: Routledge (2009) 497–506. |
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"Kripke" Twelve Modern Philosophers (eds Christopher Belshaw and Gary Kemp) Chichester: Wiley–Blackwell (2009) 153–72. |
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"Structural Properties Revisited" Dispositions and Causes (ed. Toby Handfield) Oxford: Oxford University Press (2009) 215–41. |
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"Natural Kinds" (with Emma Tobin) Stanford Encylopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2008 edition), (ed. Edward N. Zalta). |
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"Lowe on A Posteriori Essentialism" Analysis (2008) 68 336–44. |
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"Remarks on Our Knowledge of Modal Facts" Norsk filosofisk tidsskrift 43 (2008) 54–60. |
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"Dispositions, Rules, and Finks" (with Toby Handfield) Philosophical Studies 140 (2008) 285–98. |
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"Scientific Progress as Accumulation of Knowledge—A Reply to Rowbottom" Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 39 (2008) 279–81. |
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"The Epistemological Argument Against Lewis's Regularity View of Laws" Philosophical Studies 138 (2008) 73–89. |
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"The Historical Turn in the Philosophy of Science" in Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Science (eds Stathis Psillos and Martin Curd) Abingdon: Routledge (2008) 67–77. |
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"Causal Exclusion and Evolved Emergent Properties" Revitalizing Causality: Realism about Causality in Philosophy and Social Science (ed. Ruth Groff) Abingdon: Routledge (2007). |
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"The Regress of Pure Powers?" Philosophical Quarterly 57 (2007) 513–34 (winner of the Philosophical Quarterly essay prize 2006). |
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"Scientific and Theological Realism" Realism and Religion (eds Andrew Moore and Michael Scott) Aldershot: Ashgate (2007) 61–81. |
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"Inference to the Only Explanation" Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 74 (2007) 424–32. |
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"Incommensurability Naturalized" in Rethinking Scientific Change and Theory Comparison (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 255, eds Léna Soler, Howard Sankey, and Paul Hoyningen-Huene) Dordrecht: Spinger (2007) 21–39. |
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"What is Scientific Progress?" Noôs 41 (2007) 64–89. |
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"Underdetermination and Evidence" Images of Empiricism (ed. Bradley Monton) Oxford: Oxford University Press (2007) 62–82. |
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"Justified Judging" Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 74 (2007) 81–110. |
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"Selection and Explanation" in Rethinking Explanation (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 252, eds Johannes Persson and Petri Ylikoski) (2006) 131–6. |
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"Looking for Laws" Metascience 15 (2006) 441–54. |
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"Potency and Modality" Synthese 149 (2006) 491–508. |
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"Abductive Knowledge and Holmesian Inference" in Oxford Studies in Epistemology (eds. Tamar Szabo Gendler and John Hawthorne) Oxford: Oxford University Press (2005) 1–31. |
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"Unexpected A Posteriori Necessary Laws of Nature" Australasian Journal of Philosophy 83 (2005) 533–48. |
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"Laws and Essences" Ratio 18 (2005) 437–61. Reprinted in Metaphysics in Science (ed. Alice Drewery) Oxford: Blackwell (2006) 63–87. |
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"The Dispositionalist Conception of Laws" Foundations of Science 10 (2005) 353–70. |
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"Explanation and Metaphysics" Synthese 143 (2005) 89–107. |
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"Naturalizing Kuhn" Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 105 (2005) 109–27. |
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"The Ultimate Argument Against Armstrong's Contingent Necessitation View of Laws" Analysis 65 (2005) 147–55. |
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"Antidotes All the Way Down?" Theoria 19 (2004) 259–69. |
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"Thomas Kuhn" The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (ed. Edward N. Zalta) (Fall 2004 Edition). |
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"Strong Necessitarianism: the Nomological Identity of Possible Worlds" Ratio 17 (2004) 256–76. |
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"Kuhn, Naturalism, and the Positvist Legacy" Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 35 (2004) 337–56. |
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"Kuhn and Twentieth Century Philosophy of Science" Annals of the Japan Association for Philosophy of Science 12 (2004) 1–14. |
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"Kuhn on Reference and Essence" Philosophia Scientiae 8 (2004) 39–71. |
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"Is Evidence Non-Inferential?" Philosophical Quarterly 54 (2004) 253–65. |
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"Kuhn, Nominalism, and Empiricism" Philosophy of Science 70 (2003) 690–719. |
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"Three Conservative Kuhns" Social Epistemology 17 (2003) 125–31. |
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"Nozick's Fourth Condition" Facta Philosophica 5 (2003) 141–51. |
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"Resemblance Nominalism and Counterparts" Analysis 63 (2003) 221–28. |
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"Philosophy of Science" in Fundamentals of Philosophy (ed. John Shand) London: Routledge (2003) 297–324. |
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"Thomas Samuel Kuhn" Dictionary of Literary Biography (2003) 154–66. |
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"Structural Properties" in Real Metaphysics: Essays in Honour of D.H. Mellor (eds. Hallvard Lillehammer and Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra) London: Routledge (2003) 154–68. |
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"Laws and Criteria" Canadian Journal of Philosophy 32 (2002) 511–41. |
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"What is in a Paradigm?" Richmond Journal of Philosophy 1.ii (2002) 11–20. |
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"On Whether Some Laws are Necessary" Analysis 62 (2002) 257–70. |
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"Kuhn's Wrong Turning" Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 33 (2002) 443–63. |
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"Illocutionary Silencing" Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 83 (2002) 1–15. |
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"Necessarily, Salt Dissolves in Water" Analysis 61 (2001) 267–74. |
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"Scepticism and Contrast Classes" Analysis 61 (2001) 97–107. |
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"Il concetto di metodo scientifico e spegazione" ("The concept of scientific method and explanation") Interpretare (Italy) (2000) 116–49. |
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"Further Antidotes: A Response to Gundersen" Philosophical Quarterly 50 (2000) 229–33. |
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"Scientific Revolutions and Inference to the Best Explanation" Danish Yearbook of Philosophy 34 (1999) 25–42. |
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"Explanation and Laws" Synthese 120 (1999) 1–18. |
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"Dispositions and Antidotes" Philosophical Quarterly 48 (1998) 227–34. |
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"The Logic in Logicism" Dialogue 36 (1997) 341–60. |
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"Squaring the Circle: Hobbes on Philosophy and Geometry" Journal of the History of Ideas 57 (1996) 217–31. |
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"Rationality and the Structure of Self-deception" in Gianfranco Soldati ed. European Review of Philosophy 1 (1994) 19–38. |
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"The Metaphysics of Natural Kinds" |
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"Can Dispositions have Intrinsic Finks and Antidotes?" |
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"Evidence and Inference" |
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"Outline of a Dispositional Account of Causation" |
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"Monistic Dispositional Essentialism" |
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"The Structure and Necessity of the Natural Laws" |
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"Time and Background-Free Theories" |
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"Dispositions, Rules, and Finks" (see above for paper) |
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"What is in a Paradigm?" (see above for paper) |
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"Taking Science Seriously - Scientific versus alternative medicine" |
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