Bas C. van Fraassen
For forthcoming papers see manuscripts and
abstracts
- "Capek on Eternal
Recurrence", Journal of Philosophy 59 (1962), pp. 371-375.
- "Singular Terms,
Truth-Value Gaps and Free Logic", Journal of Philosophy 63 (1966),pp.
481-495.
- "The Completeness of
Free Logic", Zeitschrift fur Mathem. Logik und Grundlagen der
Mathematik 12 (1966).
- "A Note on Bacon's
Alternative to Russell", Philosophical Studies 18 (1967), pp. 47-48.
- "Meaning Relations among
Predicates", Nous l (1967), pp. 160-179.
- "On Free Description
Theory" (with Karel Lambert) Zeitschrift fur Mathem. Logik und
Grundlagen der Mathematik 13 (1967), 225-240.
- "Presupposition, Implication,
and Self-Reference", Journal of Philosophy 65 (1968), pp.136-152.
- Review: R. Carnap, The
Logical Structure of the World, Philosophy of Science 35(1968), pp.
298-299.
- "A Topological Proof of
the Lowenheim-Skolem, Compactness, and StrongCompleteness Theorems for
Free Logic", Zeitschrift fur Math. Logik und Grundlagen der
Mathematik 14 (1968), pp. 245-254.
- "Philosophy of
Science" (with H. Margenau), Contemporary Philosophy/La Philosophie
Contemporaine, ed. R. Klibansky (Firenze, 1968), 25-30.
- "Causality" (with
H. Margenau) -- Location of (9), pp. 319-328.
- Review, R. Carnap, The
Logical Structure of the World, Philosophy of Science 35 (1968), pp.
298-299.
- "Logical Structure in
Plato's Sophist", Metaphysics 22 (1969), pp. 482-498.
- "Conventionality in the
Axiomatic Foundations of the Special Theory of Relativity",
Philosophy of Science 36 (1969), pp. 64-73.
- "Meaning Relations and
Modalities", Nous 3 (1969), pp. 155-167.
- "Presuppositions,
Supervaluations, and Free Logic", in K. Lambert (ed.), The Logical
Way of Doing Things, New Haven: Yale University Press (1969), pp. 67-91.
- "Facts and Tautological
Entailments", Journal of Philosophy 66 (1969), pp. 477-487.
- "Compactness and
Lowenheim-Skolem Proofs in Modal Logic", Logique et Analyse 12
(1969), pp. 167-178.
- "On Massey's Explication
of Gruenbaum's Conception of Metric", Philosophy of Science36 (1969),
pp. 346-353.
- "On the Extension of
Beth's Semantics of Physical Theories", Philosophy of Science 37
(1970), pp. 325-334.
- "Meaning Relations,
Possible Objects, and Possible Worlds" (with K. Lambert), in K.
Lambert (ed.), Philosophical Problems in Logic (Reidel,1970), pp. l-20.
- "Truth and Paradoxical
Consequences" in R. Martin (ed.), The Paradox of the Liar(New Haven:
Yale University Press 1970), pp. 13-23.
- "Rejoinder: On a Kantian
Conception of Language", Ibid., pp. 59-66.
- "Inference and
Self-Reference", Synthese 21 (1970), pp. 425-438.
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- "Probabilities and the
Problem of Individuation" in S. Luckenbach (ed.), Probabilities,
Problem and Paradoxes (Encino, California: Dickenson 1972),pp. 121-138.
- "A Formal Approach to
the Philosophy of Science" in R. Colodny (ed.), Paradigms and
Paradoxes: The Philosophical Challenge of the Quantum Domain, (Pittsburgh:
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1972), pp. 303-366.
- "The Labyrinth of
Quantum Logics", Boston Studies in Philosophy of Science 13(1972),
pp. 224-254.
- "Earman on The Causal
Theory of Time", Synthese 24 (1972), pp. 87-95; also in P.Suppes
(ed.), Space, Time and Geometry (Reidel 1973).
- "The Logic of
Conditional Obligation", Journal Philosophical Logic 1 (1972), pp.
417-438.
- "Values and the Heart's
Command", Journal of Philosophy 70 (1973), p. 5-19.
- "Extension, Intension,
and Comprehension", Logic and Ontology, ed. M. Munitz (New York
University Press, 1973).
- "The Formal
Representation of Physical Quantities", Boston Studies in Philosophy
of Science 13 (1974), pp. 196-209.
- "Putnam on the Corroboration
of Theories", The Structure of Scientific Theories, ed. F. Suppe
(Urbana: University of Illinois Press 1974), pp.434-436.
- "The
Einstein-Podolski-Rosen Paradox", Synthese 29 (1974), pp. 291-309.
- "Theoretical Entities:
The Five Ways", Philosophia 4 (1974), pp. 95-109.
- "Bressan and Suppes on
Modality" in K.F. Schaffner and R.S. Cohen (eds.), PSA 1972 (Reidel
Publishing Co., 1974).
- "Semantic Analysis of
Quantum Logic", pp. 80-113 in C.A. Hooker (ed.),Contemporary Research
in the Foundations and Philosophy ofQuantum Theory(Dordrecht: Reidel,
1973).
- "Hidden Variables in
Conditional Logic", Theoria 40 (1974), pp. 176-190.
- Review: Hide Ishiguro,
Leibniz' Philosophy of Logic and Language. Dialogue 13(1974), pp. 185-189.
- "Incompleteness
Assertion and Belnap Connectives", Contemporary Research in
Philosophical Logic and Linguistic Semantics, ed. D.Hockney and W.Harper
(Reidel Publishing Co., 1975), pp. 43-70.
- "Lakoff's Fuzzy
Propositional Logic" (location of 38, pp. 273-278).
- "Critical Notice: Hilary
Putnam, Philosophy of Logic", Canadian Journal of Philosophy4 (1975),
pp. 731-743.
- "Theories and
Counterfactuals", Action, Knowledge and Reality, ed. H.N. Castaneda
(Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1975).
- "Platonism's Pyrrhic
Victory", in A.L. Anderson, et al. (eds.), The Logical Enterprise(New
Haven: Yale University Press 1975), pp. 39-50.
- "Probabilities of
Conditionals", in W. Harper and C.A. Hooker (eds.) Foundations of
Probability and Statistics, Volume l (Reidel, 1975), pp.261-308.
- "Wilfrid Sellars on
Scientific Realism", Dialogue 14 (1975), pp. 606-616.
- "A Semantic Analysis of
Bohr's Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics" (jointly with C.A. Hooker) in
Harper, W.L. and C.A. Hooker (eds.), Foundations of Probability and
Statistics, Volume 3 (Dordrecht: Reidel, 1975), pp. 222-241.
- "Report on
Conditionals" Teorema 6 (1976), pp. 5-25.
- "Representation of
Conditional Probabilities", Journal of Philosophical Logic 5
(1976),pp. 417-430.
- "To Save the
Phenomena", Journal of Philosophy 73 (1976), pp. 623-632.
- "The Only Necessity is
Verbal Necessity", Journal of Philosophy 74 (1977), pp. 71-85.
- Review: Wilfred Sellars,
Essays in Philosophy and its History, Annals of Science 34 (1977), pp.
73-74.
- "The Pragmatics of
Explanation", American Philosophical Quarterly 14 (1977), pp. 143-
150.
- "Relative
Frequencies", Synthese 34 (1977), pp. 133-166.
- "On the Radical
Incompleteness of the Manifest Image (Comments on Sellars)", pp.335-
343 in F. Suppe and P. Asquith, eds., PSA 1976, Volume II(Philosophy of
Science Association, East Lansing, 1977), pp. 335-343.
- "Essence and
Existence", American Philosophical Quarterly Monograph Series No. 12
(1978).
- Review: Wolfgang Stegmuller,
Personnelle und Statistische Wahrscheinlichkeit", Philosophy of
Science 45 (1978), pp. 158-163.
- "Time, Physical and
Experiential", Epistemologia l (1978), pp. 323-338.
- "Foundations of
Probability: A Modal Frequency Interpretation", in G. Toraldo
diFrancia (ed.), Problems in the Foundations of Physics, pp.344-394.
Amsterdam: North- Holland Pub. Co. 1979.
- "On Carnap and Popper
Probability Functions" (with Hughes Leblanc), Journal ofSymbolic
Logic 44 (1979), pp. 369-373.
- "Hidden Variables and
the Modal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics", Synthese 42 (1979),
pp. 155-165.
- "Propositional Attitudes
in Weak Pragmatics", Studia Logica 38 (1979), pp. 365-374.
- "Modality" in H.
Kyburg (ed.), Current Research in Philosophy of Science (Philosophyof
Science Association 1979).
- "Russell's Philosophical
Account of Probability", in G.W. Roberts (ed.), BertrandRussell
Memorial Volume (London: Allen and Unwin, 1979), pp.384-413.
- "A Temporal Framework
for Conditionals and Chance", Philosophical Review 89(1980), pp.
91-108.
- "A Re-examination of
Aristotle's Philosophy of Science", Dialogue 19 (1980), pp. 20-45.
- "Rational Belief and
Probability Kinematics", Philosophy of Science, Vol. 47, June1980,
pp. 165-187.
- "Critical Study: Brian
Ellis, Rational Belief Systems", Canadian Journal of Philosophy,10
(1980), 497-511.
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- "Assumptions and
Interpretations of Quantum Logic" in Current Issues in QuantumLogic,
(1981) -- see Books, above.
- "A Modal Interpretation
of Quantum Mechanics" in Current Issues in Quantum Logic (1981).
- "Critical Study: Paul
Churchland, Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of Mind,Canadian Journal
of Philosophy, 11 (1981), 555-567.
- "Probabilistic Semantics
Objectified, I", Journal of Philosophical Logic, 10 (1981), 371- 394;
Part II, 10(1981), 495-510.
- "Essences and Laws of
Nature", in R. Healey (ed.), Reduction, Time and Reality, Cambridge
University Press (1981), pp. 189-200.
- "Discussion: A Problem
for Relative Information Minimizers in ProbabilityKinematics", British
Journal for the Philosophy of Science 32(1981), 375-379.
- "Rational Belief and the
Common Cause Principle", 193-209 in R. McLaughlin (ed.),What? Where?
When? Why? Essays in honour of Wesley Salmon(Dordrecht: Reidel, 1982).
- "The Charybdis of Realism:
Epistemological Implications of Bell's Inequality",Synthese 5 (1982),
25-38.
- "Quantification as an
Act of Mind", Journal of Philosophical Logic 11 (1982), 343-369.
- "Epistemic Semantics
Defended", Journal of Philosophical Logic 11 (1982), 463-464.
- "Gentlemen's Wagers:
Relevant Logic and Probability" Philosophical Studies 43(1983),
47-61.
- "Calibration: A
Frequency Justification for Personal Probability", pp. 295-319 in
R.S. Cohen and L. Laudan (eds.) Physics, Philosophy, andPsychoanalysis
(Dordrecht: Reidel, 1983).
- "Theory Confirmation:
Tension and Conflict", pp. 319-329 in Epistemology and Philosophy of
Science: Proceedings of the SeventhInternational Wittgenstein Symposium
(Vienna: Hoelder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1983).
- "Shafer on Conditional
Probabilities", Journal of Philosophical Logic 12 (1983), pp.467-
470.
- "Sulla realta' degli
enti matematici" pp. 90-110 in Proceedings of the Conference on
Levels of Reality, Florence 1978: M.Piatelli-Palmerini (ed.) Livelli di
Realta'. Milano: Feltrinelli, 1984.
- "On Characterizing
Popper and Carnap Probability Functions" (with W. L. Harper and H.
Leblanc in H. Leblanc, R. Gumb, and R. Stern (eds.) Essays in Epistemology
and Semantics. New York: Haven Publications, 1984.
- "Theory Comparison and
Relevant Evidence" in J. Earman (ed.), Testing Scientific Theories.
Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol.X. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 1984.
- "Glymour on Evidence and
Explanation" same location as 82.
- "Belief and the
Will" Journal of Philosophy 81 (1984), pp. 235-256.
- "The Problem of
Indistinguishable Particles" in J.T. Cushing, C.F. Delaney,
G.M.Gutting (eds.) Science and Reality: Recent Work in the Philosophy of
Science. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1984.
- (with R.I.G. Hughes) "Symmetry
Arguments in Probability Kinematics" in P. Kitcher and P. Asquith
(eds.) PSA 1984, vol. 2, pp. 851-869. East Lansing, Mich.:Philosophy of
Science Association, 1985.
- "Statistical Behaviour
of Indistinguishable Particles" in P. Mittelstaedt and E-W. Stachow
(eds.) Recent Developments in Quantum Logic. Zurich,1985.
- "Empiricism in the
Philosophy of Science" pp. 245-308 in P.M. Churchland and C.A. Hooker
(eds.) Images of Science: Essays on Realism and Empiricism, with a Reply
by Bas C. van Fraassen. University of Chicago Press, 1985.
- "Salmon on
Explanation", Journal of Philosophy 82 (1985), pp. 639-651.
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Articles
after 1985
- "A Demonstration of the Jeffrey Conditionalization
Rule", Erkenntnis 24 (1986), 17-24.
- "On the Question of Identification of a Scientific
Theory" (Reply to Perez Ransanz), Critica 17 (1985), 21-25.
- "EPR: When is a Correlation not a Mystery", pp.
113-128 in P. Lahti and P. Mittelstaedt (eds.) Symposium on the Foundations
of Modern Physics: 50 Yearsof the Einstein- Podolsky-Rosen Experiment.
Singapore: World Scientific, 1985.
- "Aim and Structure of Scientific
Theories",pp.397-318 in International Congress of Logic, Methodology,
and Philosophy of Science VII: 1983 (Salzburg)ed. R.B. Marcus, G. Dorn,
and P. Weingartner. Amsterdam: North-Holland Pub. Co., 1986.
- "Que son las leyes de la naturaleza?", Dianoia 31
(1985), pp. 211-262 (appeared in 1986).
- "The World We Speak Of, and the Language We Live In",
pp. 213-221 in Philosophyand Culture: Proc. of the XVII-th World Congress
of Philosophy(Montreal, 1983). Montreal: Editions du Beffroi, 1986.
- "A Problem for Relative Information Minimizers in
Probability Kinematics, Continued" with R.I.G. Hughes and G. Harman,
British Journal for thePhilosophy of Science 37(1986), 453-475.
- "Symmetries in Personal Probability Kinematics" in
N. Rescher (ed.) Scientific Inquiry in Philosophical Perspective. Lanham,
MD: University Press of America, 1987, pp. 183-224.
- "Armstrong on Laws and Probabilities", Australasian
Journal of Philosophy, 65 (1987), 243-260.
- "The Semantic Approach to Scientific Theories" in
N.J. Nersessian (ed.) The Process of Science. Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff,
1987.
- "Simmetrie e cinematica della probabilita personale"
in M. C. Galavotti and G. Gambetta (eds.), Epistemologica ed Economia.
Bologna: CLUEB, 1988, pp. 21-42.
- "Identity in Intensional Logic: Subjective
Semantics" Versus 44/45 (1986), 201-219 (appeared in 1988).
- "The problem of old evidence", pp. 153-165 in David
F. Austin (ed.), Philosophical Analysis (Dordrecht: Reidel, 1988).
- "Symmetry Arguments in Science and Metaphysics", pp.
385-409 in W. Deppert (ed.), Exact Sciences and Their Philosophical
Foundations (Frankfurt: Verlag Peter Lang, 1988).
- "The Peculiar Effects of Love and Desire", pp.
123-156 in Perspectives on Self-Deception. ed. A. Rorty and B. McLaughlin
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988).
- "Die Pragmatik des Erklaerens", pp. 31-89 in Gerhard
Schurz (ed.) Erklaeren und Verstehen (Muenchen: Oldenbourg, 1988) - Part
I, pp. 31-56 is new; Part II is a reprint of part of Ch. 5 of The
Scientific Image.
- "On Explanation in Physics" pp. 109-113 in J.
Cushing and E. McMullen, (eds.), The Philosophical Consequences of Quantum
Mechanics, University of Notre Dame Press, 1989. Printed as Appendix to a
reprint of "The Charybdis of Realism" (#74 above).
- "Probabilities in physics: an empiricist view", pp.
339-347 in P. Weingartner and G. Schurz (eds.) Philosophy of the Natural
Sciences, Vienna: Hoelder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1989 (proceedings of the XIIIth
Wittgenstein Conference, Kirchberg 1988).
- "Figures in a Probability Landscape", pp. 345-356 in
Dunn, M.and Gupta, A. (eds.) Truth or Consequences. Dordrecht: Kluwer,
1990.
- Review of W. V. O. Quine, Pursuit of Truth. Times
Literary Supplement, August 10-16, 1990.
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Articles after 1990
- "Time in physical and
narrative structure", pp. 19-37 in J.Bender and D. E. Wellbery (eds.)
Chronotypes: The Construction of Time. Stanford: Stanford University
Press, 1991.
- "The modal
interpretation of quantum mechanics", pp. 440-460 in P. Lahti and P.
Mittelstaedt (eds.), Symposium on the Foundations of Modern Physics 1990.
Singapore: World Publishing Co. 1991.
- "The problem of
measurement in quantum mechanics", pp. 497-503 in P. Lahti and P.
Mittelstaedt (eds.), Symposium on the Foundations of Modern Physics 1990.
Singapore: World Publishing Co. 1991.
- "On (Ix)(x =
Lambert)" in W. Spohn, B. van Fraassen, and Brian Skyrms (eds.)
Existence and Explanation. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1991, pp. 1-18.
- "Jeffrey Shifts and
Self-Adjoint Operators", Philosophy of Science 59 (1992),163-175.
- "La credenza e il
problema di Ulisse e le Sirene", pp. 77-106 in A. E. Galeotti (ed.)
Individui e Istituzioni. Torino: La Rosa Editrice, 1992.
- "La Meccanica
Quantistica: uno spettro di interpretazioni", Iride 7 (1991), 28-50.
- "Faire figure dans un
monde probabiliste" (translation of a modified version of #108), 307-
322 in Daniel Laurier and Francois Lepage (eds.), Essais sur le Langage et
l'Intentionalite'. Montreal: Bellarmin, 1992; Paris: Vrin, 1992.
- "Three-sided
scholarship: Comments on the paper of John R. Donahue, S.J.", pp.
315-325 in E. Stump and T. P. Flint (eds.), Hermes and Athena: Biblical
Exegesis and Philosophical Theology. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame
Press, 1993.
- "Despues del
fundacionismo: entre el carculo vicioso y el regresso al infinito",
Di&noia 38 (1992), 217-240. ("After foundationalism: between
vicious circle and infinite regress", Proceedings of the XI Simposio
de Filosofaa del Instituto de Investigaciones Filos 1992.) [note: this
appeared in 1993; it overlaps 3/4 of item 124.]
- "Armstrong, Cartwright,
and Earman on Laws and Symmetry", Phenomenology and Philosophical
Research, 53 (1993), 431-444.
- "Interpretation in
Science and in the Arts" (with Jill Sigman ), pp. 73-99 in
G. Levine (ed.) Realism and Representation. Madison: University of
Wisconsin Press, 1993.
- "From vicious circle to
infinite regress, and back again"; pp. 6-29 in D. Hull, M.Forbes, and
K. Ohkruhlik (eds.) PSA 1992, Vol. 2 (proceedings of the Philosophy of
Science Association Conference, Nov. 1992) Northwestern University Press,
1993.
- "Gideon Rosen on
constructive empiricism", Philos. Studies 74 (1994), 179-192.
- "Against Transcendental
Empiricism", in T. J. Stapledon (ed.) The Question of Hermeneutics.
Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1994.
- "The World of Empiricism",
pp. 114-134 in Jan Hilgevoort (ed.) Physics and Our View of the World.
Cambridge University Press, 1994.
- "Interpretation of
science: science as interpretation", pp. 169-187 in Jan Hilgevoort
(ed.) Physics and Our View of the World. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
- "Interpretation of QM:
Parallels and Choices", pp. 7-14 in L. Accardi (ed.) The
Interpretation of Quantum Theory: Where Do We Stand?. Rome: Istituto della
Enciclopedia Italiana (distributed Fordham University Press), 1994.
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Articles from 1995 on
- "Belief and the problem
of Ulysses and the Sirens", Philos. Studies 77 (1995), 7-37 (this
paper overlaps published item 117).
- "A philosophical
approach to the foundations of science", Foundations of Science 1
(1995/96), 5-9.
- Little review of S. Shapin, A
Social History of Truth, Common Knowledge 4 (1995), 81-82.
- "Against Naturalized
Empiricism", pp. 68-88 in P. Leonardi and M. Santambrogio (eds.) On
Quine. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1995.
- "Fine-grained opinion,
probability, and the logic of belief", Journal of Philosophical
Logic, 24 (1995), 349-377.
- "'World' is not a count
noun", Nous 29 (1995), 139-157.
- "Science, probability,
and the proposition", PSA94, vol. 2, pp. 339-348. East
Lansing,MI: Philosophy of Science Association, 1995.
- "Science, Materialism,
and False Consciousness", pp. 149-181 in Jonathan Kvanvig (ed.) Warrant
in Contemporary Epistemology: Essays in Honor of Alvin Plantinga's Theory
of Knowledge. Rowman Littlefield, 1996.
- "Structure and
perspective: philosophical perplexity and paradox", pp. 511-530 in M.
L. Dalla Chiara et al. (eds.) Logic and Scientific Methods.
Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1997.
- "Elgin on Lewis'
Putnam's Paradox", Journal of Philosophy 94 (1997), 85-93.
- "Probabilite'
conditionelle et certitude" (revised version of ."Fine-grained
opinion, conditional probability, and the logic of belief", 1995),
Dialogue 36 (1997), 69-90.
- "Comments on Peter
Roeper's 'The link between probability functions and logical
consequence", Dialogue 36 (1997), 27-31.
- (with James Ladyman, Igor
Douven, and Leon Horsten) "A Defence of van Fraassen's Critique of
Abductive Reasoning: Reply to Psillos", Philosophical Quarterly
47 (1997), 305-321.
- "Putnam's Paradox:
Metaphysical Realism Revamped and Evaded", Philosophical
Perspectives, vol. 11 (Boston: Blackwell, 1997), pp. 17-42.
- "Modal interpretation of
repeated measurement: reply to Leeds and Healey", Philosophy of
Science 64 (1997), 669-676.
- "Sola experientia? Feyerabend's
Refutation of Classical Empiricism", Philosophy of Science 64
(1997), S385-S395.
- "Frequency and the Myth
of Probability", pp. 55-67 in H. Poser and U. Dirks, Hans
Reichenbach: Philosophie im Umkreis der Physik. Berlin: Akademie
Verlag, 1998.
- "The agnostic subtly
probabilified", Analysis 58 (1998), 212-220.
- Review: J. Bub, Interpreting
the Quantum World. Foundations of Physics 28 (1998),
683-689.
- "Response: Haldane on
the future of philosophy", New Blackfriars 80 (1999), 177-181.
- "The Manifest Image and
the Scientific Image", pp. 29-52 in D. Aerts (ed.). Einstein Meets
Magritte: The White Book -- An Interdisciplinary Reflection.
Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1999.
- "Conditionalization, A
New Argument For", Topoi 18 (1999), 93-96.
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Articles from 2000 on
- "The False Hopes of Traditional
Epistemology", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 60
(2000), 253-280.
- "The theory of tragedy
and of science: does nature have narrative structure?" pp. 31-59 in
D. Sfendoni-Mentzou (ed.) Aristotle and Contemporary Science, vol 1.
New York: Peter Lang, 2000.
- "How is scientific
revolution/conversion possible?", Proceedings of the American
Catholic Philosophical Association 73 (1999 -- appeared in 2000),
63-80.
- "The sham victory of
abstraction" (Review of Feyerabend, Conquest of Abundance), Times
Literary Supplement 5073: June 23, 2000, 10-11.
- "La fin de l'empirisme?" Revue Philosophique
de Louvain 98 (2000), 449-479.
- "Michel Ghins on the empirical vs. the
theoretical", Foundations of Science 30 (2000), 1655-1661.
- "Constructive Empiricism
Now", Philosophical Studies 106 (2001), 151-170.
- "Literate Experience: The [De-, Re-] Interpretation of Nature
", Versus 85/86/87 (2000), 331-358 (published in 2002).
- "On McMullin's Appreciation of Realism Concerning the Sciences"",
Philosophy of Science 70 (2003), 479-492.
- "Constructive Empiricism and Modal Nominalism "
(with Bradley Monton), British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 54 (2003), pp. 405-422.
- "Symmetry as a guide to superfluous theoretical structure" (with Jenann Ismael), in Symmetries in Physics: Philosophical Reflections. Ed. Katherine Brading and Elena Castellani. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
- "Transcendence of the Ego: The Non-Existent Knight", Ratio (new series) XVII (2004), 453-477.
- "Précis" and "Replies" in book symposium on The Empirical Stance. Philosophical Studies 121 (2004), 127-132 and 171-192.
-
"Science as Representation: Flouting the Criteria", Philosophy of Science 71 (2004), 794-804.
Articles from 2005 on
-
"Conditionalizing on violated Bell's inequalities", Analysis 65.1 (Jan 2005), pp. 27-32.
-
“Appearance versus Reality as a Scientific Problem”, Philosophic Exchange 35 (2005), 34-67.
- "The Day of the Dolphins: Puzzling Over Epistemic Partnership", pp. 111- 133 in A. Irvine and K. Peacock, eds., Mistakes of Reason: Essays in Honour of John Woods. University of Tororonto Press, 2005.
- “Vague Expectation Loss”, Philosophical Studies 127 (2006), 483–491.
- “Weyl’s paradox: the distance between structure and perspective”, pp. 13-34 in Andreas Berg-Hildebrand and Christian Suhm (eds.), Bas C. van Fraassen: The Fortunes of Empiricism. Frankfurt: ontos verlag, 2006.
- “Replies”, pp. 125-171 in ibid.
- “One Hundred and Fifty Years of Philosophy”, Topoi 2006, 123-127.
- « Le Fictionalisme des Entités Inobservables » in Science et Avenir, Hors-Série : Les fictions de la science, n°147, juillet/août 2006.
- “Structure: its Shadow and Substance”, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 57 (2006), 275-307.
- "Le quasi-réalisme de Schrödinger". Review of M. Bitbol, Schrödinger's Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics. Science et Avenir, Hors-Série 148 (Oct/Nov 2006), p. 80.
- “Structuralism(s) About Science: Some Common Problems”, Proceedings of the Aristotelian SocietySupplementary Volume LXXXI (2007), pp. 45-61.
- “Representation: the Problem for Structuralism”, Philosophy of Science 73 (2006), pp. 536-547.
- “The Constitutive A Priori” Review of Ryckman, The Reign of Relativity. Metascience 16 (2007), pp. 407-419.
- “REPLY: From a view of science to a new empiricism” in Bradley Monton (ed.), Images of Empiricism: Essays on Science and Stances, with a Reply from Bas van Fraassen. Oxford University Press, 2007.
-
“Identity over Time: Objectively, Subjectively”, with I. Peschard. Philosophical Quarterly 58 (2008), pp. 15-35.
-
“How to Talk about Unobservables” (with F. A. Muller), Analysis 68 (2008), 197–205.
-
“Representation and Perspective in Science”. Principia 11(2007), 97-116.
- “Identity over Time: Objectively, Subjectively”, with I. Peschard. Philosophical Quarterly 58 (2008), pp. 15-35.
- “How to Talk about Unobservables” (with F. A. Muller), Analysis 68 (2008), 197–205.
- “Sloughs Of Despond, Mountains Of Joy” Critical Quarterly 50: 4 (Dec. 2008) , 74-87.
- Review: Graham Oppy, Philosophical Perspectives on Infinity. International Philosophical Quarterly 48/2 (June 2008), pages 257-258.
- “Rescher on Explanation and Prediction”, in Robert Almeder (Ed.) Rescher Studies:
A Collection of Essays on the Philosophical Work of Nicholas Rescher Presented to Him on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday. Ontos Verlag, 2009.
- Review: Talal A. Debs and Michael G. Redhead, Objectivity, Invariance, and Convention: Symmetry in Physical Science.
Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 40 (2009): 84–87
- “The Perils of Perrin, at the hands of philosophers” Philosophical Studies 143 (2009): 5-24.
- “Can empiricism leave its realism behind?” pp. 457-480 in Michel Bitbol, Pierre Kerszberg, and Jean Petitot (eds.)
Constituting Objectivity: Transcendental Approaches Of Modern Physics. Springer Pub Co. 2009.
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"The Representation of Nature in Physics: A Reflection on Adolf Grünbaum's Early Writings", pp. 305-349 in Jokic, A. (ed.)
Philosophy of Physics and Psychology: Essays in Honor of Adolf Grünbaum. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2009.
Articles from 2010 on
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“Rovelli’s World”. Foundations of Physics 40 (2010): 390-418.
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“Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective (Precis)”, Analysis 70 (2010) : 511-514.
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“Reply to Contessa, Ghins, and Healey”, Analysis 70 (2010): 547-556.
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“Precis of Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective” Philosophical Studies 150 (2010): 425-428.
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“Reply to Belot, Elgin, and Horsten” Philosophical Studies 150 (2010): 461-472.
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“On Stance and Rationality”. (Reply to contributors) Synthese 178 (2011): 155-169.
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“Thomason's paradox for belief, and two consequence relations”, Journal of Philosophical Logic 40 (2011):15–32.
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“What Was Perrin’s Real Achievement?” pp. 231-246 (with reply by Achinstein pp. 294-296) in Gregory Morgan (ed.)
Philosophy of Science Matters: The Philosophy of Peter Achinstein. Oxford University Press 2011
FORTHCOMING (these entries updated June 2011) (indexed by year it was accepted for publication)
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2010. “A Long Journey from Pragmatics to Pragmatics” (Reply to Bueno, Ladyman, and Suarez), forthcoming in Metascience.
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2010. “Logic and the Philosophy of Science”, Forthcoming: Journal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research 27 (2011), #2
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2010. Contribution to book symposium “The physics and metaphysics of identity and individuality” for S. French and
D. Krause, Identity in physics. Forthcoming in Metascience.
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