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Malcolm Forster, How do simple rules `fit to reality' in a complex world?Minds and Machines 9 (4): 543-564. 1999.
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M. R. Forster, Model selection in science: The problem of language varianceBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 50 (1): 83-102. 1999.
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Malcolm Forster, Bayes and Bust: Simplicity as a Problem for a Probabilist’s Approach to Confirmation (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 46 (3): 399-424. 1995.
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Malcolm Forster, The golfer's dilemma: A reply to Kukla on curve-fittingBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 46 (3): 348-360. 1995.
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Malcolm Forster and Eric Saidel, Connectionism and the fate of folk psychology: A reply to Ramsey, Stich and GaronPhilosophical Psychology 7 (4). 1994.
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Malcolm Forster, Non-bayesian foundations for statistical estimation, prediction, and the ravens exampleErkenntnis 40 (3). 1994.
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Malcolm Forster and Elliott Sober, How to Tell When Simpler, More Unified, or Less A d Hoc Theories Will Provide More Accurate PredictionsBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 45 (1): 1-35. 1994.
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Malcolm Forster, Preconditions of predication: From qualia to quantum mechanicsTopoi 10 (1): 13-26. 1991.
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Malcolm Forster, Sober’s Principle of Common Cause and the Problem of Comparing Incomplete HypothesesPhilosophy of Science 55 (4): 538-559. 1988.
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Malcolm Forster, The Confirmation of Common Component CausesPSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1988. 1988.
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Malcolm Forster, Unification, explanation, and the composition of causes in Newtonian mechanicsStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 19 (1): 55-101. 1988.
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Malcolm Forster, Scientific Discovery: Computational Explorations of the Creative ProcessesMIT Press (MA). 1987.
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Malcolm Forster, Counterfactual reasoning in the bell-epr paradoxPhilosophy of Science 53 (1): 133-144. 1986.
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Malcolm Forster, Unification and Scientific Realism RevisitedPSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1986. 1986.
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Malcolm Forster, Book Review:How the Laws of Physics Lie Nancy Cartwright (review)Philosophy of Science 52 (3): 478-. 1985.