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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.

M. R. Forster, Model selection in science: The problem of language variance
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 50 (1): 83-102. 1999.

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.

Malcolm Forster, The golfer's dilemma: A reply to Kukla on curve-fitting
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 46 (3): 348-360. 1995.

Malcolm Forster and Eric Saidel, Connectionism and the fate of folk psychology: A reply to Ramsey, Stich and Garon
Philosophical Psychology 7 (4). 1994.

Malcolm Forster, Non-bayesian foundations for statistical estimation, prediction, and the ravens example
Erkenntnis 40 (3). 1994.

Malcolm Forster and Elliott Sober, How to Tell When Simpler, More Unified, or Less A d Hoc Theories Will Provide More Accurate Predictions
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 45 (1): 1-35. 1994.

Malcolm Forster, Preconditions of predication: From qualia to quantum mechanics
Topoi 10 (1): 13-26. 1991.

Malcolm Forster, Sober’s Principle of Common Cause and the Problem of Comparing Incomplete Hypotheses
Philosophy of Science 55 (4): 538-559. 1988.

Malcolm Forster, The Confirmation of Common Component Causes
PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1988. 1988.

Malcolm Forster, Unification, explanation, and the composition of causes in Newtonian mechanics
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 19 (1): 55-101. 1988.

Malcolm Forster, Scientific Discovery: Computational Explorations of the Creative Processes
MIT Press (MA). 1987.

Malcolm Forster, Counterfactual reasoning in the bell-epr paradox
Philosophy of Science 53 (1): 133-144. 1986.

Malcolm Forster, Unification and Scientific Realism Revisited
PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1986. 1986.

Malcolm Forster, Book Review:How the Laws of Physics Lie Nancy Cartwright (review)
Philosophy of Science 52 (3): 478-. 1985.

Zhiwei Gu, Anomalous Disjunctivism

Malcolm Forster, Chapter 1: An introduction to philosophy of science

Malcolm Forster, Chapter 3: Simplicity and unification in model selection

Malcolm Forster, Chapter 2: Theories, models, and curves

Malcolm Forster, Discussion: Unification and predictive accuracy

Malcolm Forster, Many kinds of confirmation

Malcolm Forster, Percolation: An easy example of renormalization

Malcolm Forster, Philosophy of the quantitative sciences

Malcolm Forster, The asymmetry between backwards and forwards regression

Malcolm Forster, The Whewell-mill debate in a nutshell

Malcolm Forster, Unification and evidence

Malcolm Forster, William Whewell (1794-1866)

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