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169Laws and Lawmakers: Science, Metaphysics, and the Laws of NaturePhilosophical Review 123 (1): 116-118. 2014.
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Natural kindsIn Ed Zalta (ed.), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2012.
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29Review of Susan Haack Defending Science -- Within Reason: Between Scientism and Cynicism (review)The Philosophical Review 115 (1): 131-133. 2003.Review of Susan Haack Defending Science -- Within Reason: Between Scientism and Cynicism
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75Susan Haack, Defending Science—Within Reason: Between Scientism and Cynicism (review)Philosophical Review 115 (1): 131-133. 2006.
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1266Dispositions, rules, and finksPhilosophical Studies 140 (2). 2007.This paper discusses the prospects of a dispositional solution to the Kripke–Wittgenstein rule-following puzzle. Recent attempts to employ dispositional approaches to this puzzle have appealed to the ideas of finks and antidotes—interfering dispositions and conditions—to explain why the rule-following disposition is not always manifested. We argue that this approach fails: agents cannot be supposed to have straightforward dispositions to follow a rule which are in some fashion masked by other, c…Read more
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68Review. The metaphysics of science. C DilworthBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 48 (2): 284-286. 1997.
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Underdetermination and evidenceIn Bradley John Monton (ed.), Images of empiricism: essays on science and stances, with a reply from Bas C. van Fraassen, Oxford University Press. 2007.
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Structural properties revisitedIn Toby Handfield (ed.), Dispositions and causes, Clarendon Press ;. 2009.
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87Restricted Composition is Information CompressionPhilosophical Quarterly 73 (3): 677-700. 2023.This paper proposes and examines an answer to the special composition question—complex objects compress information about their parts. I start by defending fastenation for material objects and then extract from fastenation the idea that the conjoinment of parts establishes correlations among the locations and motions of those parts. I move from this to the proposal that entities are parts of some object when that object allows for the efficient, if lossy, compression of information about those p…Read more
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Time, Chance, and the Necessity of EverythingIn Alastair Wilson (ed.), Chance and Temporal Asymmetry, Oxford University Press. 2014.
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1Waismann Versus Ewing on CausalityVienna Circle Institute Yearbook 15 207-224. 2011.Friedrich Waismann’s typescript “Causality” dates from the late 1940s or early 1950s, and derives from lectures he gave at Oxford in 1947–8, where he was then university lecturer. The typescript is divided into twelve sections, and Waismann devotes much of one section to an engagement with A. C. Ewing’s paper “A Defence of Causality”
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2Natural kinds and modalityIn Otávio Bueno & Scott A. Shalkowski (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Modality, Routledge. 2018.
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The epistemic approach : scientific progress as the accumulation of knowledgeIn Yafeng Shan (ed.), New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress, Routledge. 2022.
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89Understanding the Replication Crisis as a Base Rate FallacyBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 72 (4): 965-993. 2021.The replication (replicability, reproducibility) crisis in social psychology and clinical medicine arises from the fact that many apparently well-confirmed experimental results are subsequently overturned by studies that aim to replicate the original study. The culprit is widely held to be poor science: questionable research practices, failure to publish negative results, bad incentives, and even fraud. In this article I argue that the high rate of failed replications is consistent with high-qua…Read more
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21Properties, Powers and Structures: Issues in the Metaphysics of Realism (edited book)Routledge. 2013.While the phrase "metaphysics of science" has been used from time to time, it has only recently begun to denote a specific research area where metaphysics meets philosophy of science—and the sciences themselves. The essays in this volume demonstrate that metaphysics of science is an innovative field of research in its own right. The principle areas covered are: The modal metaphysics of properties: What is the essential nature of natural properties? Are all properties essentially categorical? Are…Read more
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71Internalism, Externalism, and the KK PrincipleErkenntnis 86 (6): 1713-1732. 2019.This paper examines the relationship between the KK principle and the epistemological theses of externalism and internalism. In particular we examine arguments from Okasha (Analysis 73(1):80–86, 2013) and Greco (J Philos 111(4):169–197, 2014) which deny that we can derive the denial of the KK principle from externalism.
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Abductive Knowledge and Holmesian InferenceIn Tamar Szabo Gendler & John Hawthorne (eds.), Oxford Studies in Epistemology Volume 1, Oxford University Press Uk. 2005.
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19Review of Craig Dilworth: The Metaphysics of Science (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 48 (2): 284-286. 1997.
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14Free Inquiry:The Haldane Principle and the Significance of Scientific ResearchSocial Epistemology 2 (7). 2013.[no abstract]
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39Review of Craig Dilworth: The Metaphysics of Science (review)The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 48 (2). 1997.
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45Scientific Realism and Three Problems for Inference to the Best ExplanationIn Wenceslao J. Gonzalez (ed.), New Approaches to Scientific Realism, De Gruyter. pp. 48-67. 2020.
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35Inference to the Only ExplanationPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 74 (2): 424-432. 2007.
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71Karl Popper, The Myth of the Framework. Routledge, London, 1994, cloth £25.00 Karl Popper, Knowledge and the Body–Mind Problem. London, Routledge, 1994, cloth £27.50 (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 47 (1): 149-151. 1996.
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