Logic
Why There Can't be a Logic of Induction, PSA 1994 : proceedings of the 1994 biennial meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association (1994)
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Singular and General Causal Relations: A Mechanist Perspective, Causality in the Sciences (2011)
My aim in this paper is to make a case for the singularist view from...
Mechanisms, Causes, and the Layered Model of the World, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2010)
Most philosophical accounts of causation take causal relations to obtain between individuals and events in...
Mechanisms (Oxford), The Oxford Handbook of Causation (2010)
Mechanism is undoubtedly a causal concept, in the sense that ordinary definitions and philosophical analyses...
Ephemeral Mechanisms and Historical Explanation, Erkenntnis (2009)
While much of the recent literature on mechanisms has emphasized the superiority of mechanisms and...
Productivity, relevance and natural selection, Biology & Philosophy (2008)
Recent papers by a number of philosophers have been concerned with the question of whether...
Mechanisms, The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Science (2008)
This book chapter contains an overview of recent work on mechanisms -- especially the work...
Whose Science and whose Religion? Reflections on the Relations between Scientific and Religious Worldviews, Science & Education (2007)
Arguments about the relationship between science and religion often proceed by identifying a set of...
Explanation, The Philosophy of Science: An Encyclopedia (2006)
This encyclopedia article provides an overview of developments in the theory of explanation from Hempel...
The modeler in the crib, Philosophical Explorations (2005)
A number of developmental psychologists have argued for a theory they call the theory theory...
Modeling mechanisms, Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences (2005)
Philosophers of science increasingly believe that much of science is concerned with understanding the mechanisms...
Contextual unanimity and the units of selection problem, Philosophy of Science (2002)
Eliot Sober and Richard Lewontin claim that genic selection misrepresents the causes of evolution. Their...
Rethinking Mechanistic Explanation, Philosophy of Science (2002)
Philosophers of science typically associate the causal-mechanical view of scientific explanation with the work of...
Elements of deductive inference : an introduction to symbolic logic (with Joseph Bessie) (2000)
Elements of Deductive Inference is a introductory textbook in symbolic logic. Joe and I wrote...
The nature of science: A perspective from the philosophy of science (with Judy T. Eflin and George Reisch), Journal of Research in Science Teaching (1999)
A central goal of elementary and secondary science education is to go beyond the facts...
Capacities, universality and singularity, Philosophy of Science (1997)
In this paper I criticize Cartwright's analysis of capacities and offer an alternative analysis. I...
Probable causes and the distinction between subjective and objective chance, Noûs (1997)
In this paper I present both a critical appraisal of Humphreys' probabilistic theory of causality...
Mechanisms and the Nature of Causation, Erkenntnis (1996)
In this paper I offer an analysis of causation based upon a theory of mechanisms...
Computationalism and the problem of other minds, Philosophical Psychology (1995)
In this paper I discuss Searle's claim that the computational properties of a system could...