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IntroductionIn Hsiang-Ke Chao & Julian Reiss (eds.), Philosophy of Science in Practice: Nancy Cartwright and the nature of scientific reasoning., Springer International Publishing. 2016.
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Theory and evidence in economicsIn Maria Lasonen-Aarnio & Clayton Littlejohn (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Evidence, Routledge. 2024.
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49What's new in the philosophy of the social sciences?: Guest editors' introductionPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 38 (3): 311-313. 2008.
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87Mechanisms, continental approaches, trials, and evolutionary medicine: New work in the philosophy of medicineTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 32 (1): 1-4. 2011.
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8Philosophy of Science in Practice (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2017.This volume reflects the ‘philosophy of science in practice’ approach and takes a fresh look at traditional philosophical problems in the context of natural, social, and health research. Inspired by the work of Nancy Cartwright that shows how the practices and apparatuses of science help us to understand science and to build theories in the philosophy of science, this volume critically examines the philosophical concepts of evidence, laws, causation, and models and their roles in the process of …Read more
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Causality and causal interference in medicineIn Miriam Solomon, Jeremy R. Simon & Harold Kincaid (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Medicine, Routledge. 2016.
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Political experts, expertise, and expert judgmentIn Harold Kincaid & Jeroen van Bouwel (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Political Science, Oxford University Press. 2023.
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8Contingency theories of causation and explanation: comments on Paul HumphreysEnrahonar: Quaderns de Filosofía 37 35. 2005.
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12Models, Representation, and Economic PracticeIn Ulrich Gähde, Stephan Hartmann & Jörn Henning Wolf (eds.), Models, Simulations, and the Reduction of Complexity, De Gruyter. pp. 107-116. 2013.
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20The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Economics (edited book)Routledge. 2019.The most fundamental questions of economics are often philosophical in nature, and philosophers have, since the very beginning of Western philosophy, asked many questions that current observers would identify as economic. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Economics is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems, and debates at the intersection of philosophical and economic inquiry.It captures this field of countless exciting interconnections, affinities, and opportunities f…Read more
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44Why Do Experts Disagree?Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 32 (1): 218-241. 2020.Jeffrey Friedman’s Power Without Knowledge argues forcefully that there are inherent limitations to the predictability of human action, due to a circumstance he calls “ideational heterogeneity.” However, our resources for predicting human action somewhat reliably in the light of ideational heterogeneity have not been exhausted yet, and there are no in-principle barriers to progress in tackling the problem. There are, however, other strong reasons to think that disagreement among epistocrats is b…Read more
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24What are the drivers of induction? Towards a Material Theory+Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 83 (C): 8-16. 2020.
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158Evidence-Based Policy: The Tension Between the Epistemic and the NormativeCritical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 31 (2): 179-197. 2019.Acceding to the demand that public policy should be based on “the best available evidence” can come at significant moral cost. Important policy questions cannot be addressed using “the best available evidence” as defined by the evidence-based policy paradigm; the paradigm can change the meaning of questions so that they can be addressed using the preferred kind of evidence; and important evidence that does not meet the standard defined by the paradigm can get ignored. We illustrate these problem…Read more
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Philosophy of Science in Practice: Nancy Cartwright and the Nature of Scientific Reasoning (edited book)Springer. 2017.
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133Expertise, Agreement, and the Nature of Social Scientific Facts or: Against EpistocracySocial Epistemology 33 (2): 183-192. 2019.ABSTRACTTaking some controversial claims philosopher Jason Brennan makes in his book Against Democracy as a starting point, this paper argues in favour of two theses: There is No Such Thing as Superior Political Judgement; There Is No Such Thing as Uncontroversial Social Scientific Knowledge. I conclude that social science experts need to be kept in check, not given more power.
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19Philosophy of Economics, History ofIn Byron Kaldis (ed.), Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences, Sage Publications. pp. 701-778. 2013.This encyclopedia is the first of its kind in bringing together philosophy and the social sciences. It is not only about the philosophy of the social sciences but, going beyond that, it is also about the relationship between philosophy and the social sciences. The subject of this encyclopedia is purposefully multi- and inter-disciplinary. Knowledge boundaries are both delineated and crossed over. The goal is to convey a clear sense of how philosophy looks at the social sciences and to mark out a…Read more
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15Hayek, logic, and the naturalistic fallacyJournal of the History of Economic Thought 28 (3): 359-370. 2006.
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On the Causal WarsIn Hsiang-Ke Chao & Julian Reiss (eds.), Philosophy of Science in Practice: Nancy Cartwright and the nature of scientific reasoning., Springer International Publishing. 2016.
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28The methodology of positive economics: reflections on the Milton Friedman legacy, ed. Uskali Mäki. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, 382 pp (review)Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics 3 (2): 103. 2010.
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306Extrapolation of Experimental Results through Analogical Reasoning from Latent ClassesPhilosophy of Science 86 (2): 219-235. 2019.In the human sciences, experimental research is used to establish causal relationships. However, the extrapolation of these results to the target population can be problematic. To facilitate extrapolation, we propose to use the statistical technique Latent Class Regression Analysis in combination with the analogical reasoning theory for extrapolation. This statistical technique can identify latent classes that differ in the effect of X on Y. In order to extrapolate by means of analogical reasoni…Read more
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96Against external validitySynthese 196 (8): 3103-3121. 2019.Francesco Guala once wrote that ‘The problem of extrapolation is a minor scandal in the philosophy of science’. This paper agrees with the statement, but for reasons different from Guala’s. The scandal is not, or not any longer, that the problem has been ignored in the philosophy of science. The scandal is that framing the problem as one of external validity encourages poor evidential reasoning. The aim of this paper is to propose an alternative—an alternative which constitutes much better evide…Read more
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47What's Wrong With Our Theories of Evidence?Theoria 29 (2): 283-306. 2014.This paper reviews all major theories of evidence such as the Bayesian theory, hypothetico-deductivism, satisfaction theories, error-statistics, Achinstein's explanationist theory and Cartwright's argument theory. All these theories fail to take adequate account of the context in which a hypothesis is established and used. It is argued that the context of an inquiry determines important facts about what evidence is, and how much and what kind has to be collected to establish a hypothesis for a g…Read more
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42Biomedical Research, Neglected Diseases, and Well-Ordered ScienceTheoria 24 (3): 263-282. 2010.In this paper we make a proposal for reforming biomedical research that is aimed to align re-search more closely with the so-called fair-share principle according to which the proportions of global resources as-signed to different diseases should agree with the ratios of human suffering associated with those diseases.
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36Philosophy of Science in Practice: Nancy Cartwright and the nature of scientific reasoning. (edited book)Springer International Publishing. 2016.This volume reflects the ‘philosophy of science in practice’ approach and takes a fresh look at traditional philosophical problems in the context of natural, social, and health research. Inspired by the work of Nancy Cartwright that shows how the practices and apparatuses of science help us to understand science and to build theories in the philosophy of science, this volume critically examines the philosophical concepts of evidence, laws, causation, and models and their roles in the process of …Read more
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17Review of Across the Boundaries: Extrapolation in Biology and Social Science (review)Economics and Philosophy 26 (3): 382-390. 2010.
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23Rejoinder - Error in Economics. Towards a More Evidence-Based Methodology, Julian Reiss, Routledge, 2007, xxiv + 246 pages (review)Economics and Philosophy 25 (2): 210-215. 2009.
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