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PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

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

ARTICLES

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

14. ‘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]

13. ‘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), Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Springer. [PDF]

12. ‘Informational versus Functional Theories of Scientific Representation’, Synthese (2009) 72: 197-213. [PDF]

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

10. ‘Inessential Aristotle: Powers without Essences’, in R. Groff (ed.) Revitalizing Causality: Realism about Causality in Philosophy and Social Science (2008), Routledge. [PDF]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1. 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.

REVIEWS

 

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

 

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

 

4. 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]

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

IN PROGRESS

 

‘The Conceptual Basis of Non-Eliminative Ontic Structural Realism’, to appear in D. Rickles & E. Landry (eds.), Structural Realism, Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, Springer.

‘Perspectivism, Inconsistent Models, and Contrastive Explanation’, to appear in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science.

‘Testimony, Inference, and Explanation,’, special issue of Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (editor) dedicated to the memory of Peter Lipton.

‘Approaches to Truth in the Philosophy of Science’, to appear in M. Glanzberg (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Truth, Oxford University Press.

‘The Natural and Unnatural Kinds of Fundamental Physics’, to appear in The Monist.

‘Scientific Realism’, to appear in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

‘On the Explanatory Power of Powers, to appear in J. Greco & R. Groff (eds.), A Guide to Powers and Capacities in Philosophy.

Review of B. Ellis, The Metaphysics of Scientific Realism, to appear in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.

‘Fear of Metaphysics’ (article in preparation).

‘Realism between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Reply to French, Ghins, and Psillos’ (article in preparation).


‘On the Unity of Science as a Regulative Principle’ (article in preparation).

The Aims of Science (book project).