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PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

1. A Metaphysics for Scientific Realism: Knowing the Unobservable (2007), Cambridge University Press.

ARTICLES

2. Metaphysics Between the Sciences and Philosophies of Science, in J. Busch & P. D. Magnus (eds.) New Waves in Philosophy of Science (forthcoming), Palgrave Macmillan. [PDF]

3. A Puzzle about Voluntarism about Rational Epistemic Stances, Synthese (forthcoming). [PDF]

4. Truth and Representation in Science: Two Inspirations from Art, in R. Frigg & M. Hunter (eds.) Beyond Mimesis and Convention: Representation in Art and Science (forthcoming), Springer. [PDF]

5. Informational versus Functional Theories of Scientific Representation, Synthese (forthcoming). [PDF]

6. ‘What You Don’t Know Can’t Hurt You: Realism and the Unconceived’, Philosophical Studies (2008) 137: 149-158. [PDF]

7. ‘Inessential Aristotle: Powers without Essences’, in R. Groff (ed.) Revitalizing Causality: Realism about Causality in Philosophy and Social Science (2007), Routledge. [PDF]

8. Six Degrees of Speculation: Metaphysics in Empirical Contexts, in B. Monton (ed.) Images of Empiricism (2007), Oxford University Press. [PDF]

9. ‘Causal Realism: Events and Processes’, Erkenntnis (2005) 63: 7-31. [PDF]

10. ‘Structuralism as a Form of Scientific Realism’, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science (2004) 18: 151-171. [PDF]

11. ‘Stance Relativism: Empiricism versus Metaphysics’, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (2004) 35: 173-184. [PDF]

12. ‘The Structuralist Conception of Objects’, Philosophy of Science (2003) 70:  867-878. [PDF]

13. ‘The Dispositional Essentialist View of Properties and Laws’, International Journal of Philosophical Studies (2003) 11: 393-413. [PDF]

14. ‘The Semantic or Model-Theoretic View of Theories and Scientific Realism’, Synthese (2001) 127: 325-345. [PDF]

15. ‘Semirealism’, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (1998) 29: 391-408. [PDF]

16. Irving, T. C., J. Dunnings, A. Chakravartty, and B. M. Millman, ‘The Effect of High pH and Crosslinking on the Filament Lattice of Vertebrate Striated Muscle’, Biophysical Journal (1988) 53: 565a.

IN PROGRESS

The Conceptual Basis of Non-Eliminative Ontic Structural Realism

Perspectivism and Inconsistent Models

REVIEWS

17. Review of A. Bird, Nature's Metaphysics: Laws and Properties, in Metascience (2009) 18: 75-79. [PDF]

18. Review of I. Niiniluoto, Critical Scientific Realism, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2005) 69: 227-230. [PDF]

19. Review of E. Agazzi & M. Pauri (eds.), The Reality of the Unobservable: Observability, Unobservability and Their Impact on the Issue of Scientific Realism, in British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (2003) 54: 359-363. [PDF]

20. Review of N. Cartwright, The Dappled World: A Study in the Boundaries of Science, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2003) 66: 244-247. [PDF]

21. Review of C. Norris, Quantum Theory and the Flight From Realism: Philosophical Responses to Quantum Mechanics, in Metascience (2001) 10: 483-487. [PDF]

22. Review of N. Maxwell, The Comprehensibility of the Universe: A New Conception of Science, in Times Higher Education Supplement (1999): 24 September.