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Articles starting 1962

1. "Capek on Eternal Recurrence", Journal of Philosophy 59 (1962), pp. 371-375.
2. "Singular Terms, Truth-Value Gaps and Free Logic", Journal of Philosophy 63 (1966),pp. 481-495.
3. "The Completeness of Free Logic", Zeitschrift fur Mathem. Logik und Grundlagen der Mathematik 12 (1966).
4. "A Note on Bacon's Alternative to Russell", Philosophical Studies 18 (1967), pp. 47-48.
5. "Meaning Relations among Predicates", Nous l (1967), pp. 160-179.
6. "On Free Description Theory" (with Karel Lambert) Zeitschrift fur Mathem. Logik und Grundlagen der Mathematik 13 (1967), 225-240.
7. "Presupposition, Implication, and Self-Reference", Journal of Philosophy 65 (1968), pp.136-152.
8. Review: R. Carnap, The Logical Structure of the World, Philosophy of Science 35(1968), pp. 298-299.
9. "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.
10. "Philosophy of Science" (with H. Margenau), Contemporary Philosophy/La Philosophie Contemporaine, ed. R. Klibansky (Firenze, 1968), 25-30.
11. "Causality" (with H. Margenau) -- Location of (9), pp. 319-328.
12. Review, R. Carnap, The Logical Structure of the World, Philosophy of Science 35 (1968), pp. 298-299.
13. "Logical Structure in Plato's Sophist", Metaphysics 22 (1969), pp. 482-498.
14. "Conventionality in the Axiomatic Foundations of the Special Theory of Relativity", Philosophy of Science 36 (1969), pp. 64-73.
15. "Meaning Relations and Modalities", Nous 3 (1969), pp. 155-167.
16. "Presuppositions, Supervaluations, and Free Logic", in K. Lambert (ed.), The Logical Way of Doing Things, New Haven: Yale University Press (1969), pp. 67-91.
17. "Facts and Tautological Entailments", Journal of Philosophy 66 (1969), pp. 477-487.
18. "Compactness and Lowenheim-Skolem Proofs in Modal Logic", Logique et Analyse 12 (1969), pp. 167-178.
19. "On Massey's Explication of Gruenbaum's Conception of Metric", Philosophy of Science36 (1969), pp. 346-353.
20. "On the Extension of Beth's Semantics of Physical Theories", Philosophy of Science 37 (1970), pp. 325-334.
21. "Meaning Relations, Possible Objects, and Possible Worlds" (with K. Lambert), in K. Lambert (ed.), Philosophical Problems in Logic (Reidel,1970), pp. l-20.
22. "Truth and Paradoxical Consequences" in R. Martin (ed.), The Paradox of the Liar(New Haven: Yale University Press 1970), pp. 13-23.
23. "Rejoinder: On a Kantian Conception of Language", Ibid., pp. 59-66.
24. "Inference and Self-Reference", Synthese 21 (1970), pp. 425-438.

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Articles after 1970

25. "Probabilities and the Problem of Individuation" in S. Luckenbach (ed.), Probabilities, Problem and Paradoxes (Encino, California: Dickenson 1972),pp. 121-138.
26. "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.
27. "The Labyrinth of Quantum Logics", Boston Studies in Philosophy of Science 13(1972), pp. 224-254.
28. "Earman on The Causal Theory of Time", Synthese 24 (1972), pp. 87-95; also in P.Suppes (ed.), Space, Time and Geometry (Reidel 1973).
29. "The Logic of Conditional Obligation", Journal Philosophical Logic 1 (1972), pp. 417-438.
30. "Values and the Heart's Command", Journal of Philosophy 70 (1973), p. 5-19.
31. "Extension, Intension, and Comprehension", Logic and Ontology, ed. M. Munitz (New York University Press, 1973).
32. "The Formal Representation of Physical Quantities", Boston Studies in Philosophy of Science 13 (1974), pp. 196-209.
33. "Putnam on the Corroboration of Theories", The Structure of Scientific Theories, ed. F. Suppe (Urbana: University of Illinois Press 1974), pp.434-436.
34. "The Einstein-Podolski-Rosen Paradox", Synthese 29 (1974), pp. 291-309.
35. "Theoretical Entities: The Five Ways", Philosophia 4 (1974), pp. 95-109.
36. "Bressan and Suppes on Modality" in K.F. Schaffner and R.S. Cohen (eds.), PSA 1972 (Reidel Publishing Co., 1974).
37. "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).
38. "Hidden Variables in Conditional Logic", Theoria 40 (1974), pp. 176-190.
39. Review: Hide Ishiguro, Leibniz' Philosophy of Logic and Language. Dialogue 13(1974), pp. 185-189.
40. "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.
41. "Lakoff's Fuzzy Propositional Logic" (location of 38, pp. 273-278).
42. "Critical Notice: Hilary Putnam, Philosophy of Logic", Canadian Journal of Philosophy4 (1975), pp. 731-743.
43. "Theories and Counterfactuals", Action, Knowledge and Reality, ed. H.N. Castaneda (Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1975).
44. "Platonism's Pyrrhic Victory", in A.L. Anderson, et al. (eds.), The Logical Enterprise(New Haven: Yale University Press 1975), pp. 39-50.
45. "Probabilities of Conditionals", in W. Harper and C.A. Hooker (eds.) Foundations of Probability and Statistics, Volume l (Reidel, 1975), pp.261-308.
46. "Wilfrid Sellars on Scientific Realism", Dialogue 14 (1975), pp. 606-616.
47. "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.
48. "Report on Conditionals" Teorema 6 (1976), pp. 5-25.
49. "Representation of Conditional Probabilities", Journal of Philosophical Logic 5 (1976),pp. 417-430.
50. "To Save the Phenomena", Journal of Philosophy 73 (1976), pp. 623-632.
51. "The Only Necessity is Verbal Necessity", Journal of Philosophy 74 (1977), pp. 71-85.
52. Review: Wilfred Sellars, Essays in Philosophy and its History, Annals of Science 34 (1977), pp. 73-74.
53. "The Pragmatics of Explanation", American Philosophical Quarterly 14 (1977), pp. 143- 150.
54. "Relative Frequencies", Synthese 34 (1977), pp. 133-166.
55. "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.
56. "Essence and Existence", American Philosophical Quarterly Monograph Series No. 12 (1978).
57. Review: Wolfgang Stegmuller, Personnelle und Statistische Wahrscheinlichkeit", Philosophy of Science 45 (1978), pp. 158-163.
58. "Time, Physical and Experiential", Epistemologia l (1978), pp. 323-338.
59. "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.
60. "On Carnap and Popper Probability Functions" (with Hughes Leblanc), Journal ofSymbolic Logic 44 (1979), pp. 369-373.
61. "Hidden Variables and the Modal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics", Synthese 42 (1979), pp. 155-165.
62. "Propositional Attitudes in Weak Pragmatics", Studia Logica 38 (1979), pp. 365-374.
63. "Modality" in H. Kyburg (ed.), Current Research in Philosophy of Science (Philosophyof Science Association 1979).
64. "Russell's Philosophical Account of Probability", in G.W. Roberts (ed.), BertrandRussell Memorial Volume (London: Allen and Unwin, 1979), pp.384-413.
65. "A Temporal Framework for Conditionals and Chance", Philosophical Review 89(1980), pp. 91-108.
66. "A Re-examination of Aristotle's Philosophy of Science", Dialogue 19 (1980), pp. 20-45.
67. "Rational Belief and Probability Kinematics", Philosophy of Science, Vol. 47, June1980, pp. 165-187.
68. "Critical Study: Brian Ellis, Rational Belief Systems", Canadian Journal of Philosophy,10 (1980), 497-511.

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Articles after 1980

69. "Assumptions and Interpretations of Quantum Logic" in Current Issues in QuantumLogic, (1981) -- see Books, above.
70. "A Modal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics" in Current Issues in Quantum Logic (1981).
71. "Critical Study: Paul Churchland, Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of Mind,Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 11 (1981), 555-567.
72. "Probabilistic Semantics Objectified, I", Journal of Philosophical Logic, 10 (1981), 371- 394; Part II, 10(1981), 495-510.
73. "Essences and Laws of Nature", in R. Healey (ed.), Reduction, Time and Reality, Cambridge University Press (1981), pp. 189-200.
74. "Discussion: A Problem for Relative Information Minimizers in ProbabilityKinematics", British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 32(1981), 375-379.
75. "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).
76. "The Charybdis of Realism: Epistemological Implications of Bell's Inequality",Synthese 5 (1982), 25-38.
77. "Quantification as an Act of Mind", Journal of Philosophical Logic 11 (1982), 343-369.
78. "Epistemic Semantics Defended", Journal of Philosophical Logic 11 (1982), 463-464.
79. "Gentlemen's Wagers: Relevant Logic and Probability" Philosophical Studies 43(1983), 47-61.
80. "Calibration: A Frequency Justification for Personal Probability", pp. 295-319 in R.S. Cohen and L. Laudan (eds.) Physics, Philosophy, andPsychoanalysis (Dordrecht: Reidel, 1983).
81. "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).
82. "Shafer on Conditional Probabilities", Journal of Philosophical Logic 12 (1983), pp.467- 470.
83. "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.
84. "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.
85. "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.
86. "Glymour on Evidence and Explanation" same location as 82.
87. "Belief and the Will" Journal of Philosophy 81 (1984), pp. 235-256.
88. "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.
89. (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.
90. "Statistical Behaviour of Indistinguishable Particles" in P. Mittelstaedt and E-W. Stachow (eds.) Recent Developments in Quantum Logic. Zurich,1985.
91. "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.
92. "Salmon on Explanation", Journal of Philosophy 82 (1985), pp. 639-651.

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Articles after 1985

93. "A Demonstration of the Jeffrey Conditionalization Rule", Erkenntnis 24 (1986), 17-24.
94. "On the Question of Identification of a Scientific Theory" (Reply to Perez Ransanz), Critica 17 (1985), 21-25.
95. "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.
96. "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.
97. "Que son las leyes de la naturaleza?", Dianoia 31 (1985), pp. 211-262 (appeared in 1986).
98. "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.
99. "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.
100. "Symmetries in Personal Probability Kinematics" in N. Rescher (ed.) Scientific Inquiry in Philosophical Perspective. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1987, pp. 183-224.
101. "Armstrong on Laws and Probabilities", Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 65 (1987), 243-260.
102. "The Semantic Approach to Scientific Theories" in N.J. Nersessian (ed.) The Process of Science. Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1987.
103. "Simmetrie e cinematica della probabilita personale" in M. C. Galavotti and G. Gambetta (eds.), Epistemologica ed Economia. Bologna: CLUEB, 1988, pp. 21-42.
104. "Identity in Intensional Logic: Subjective Semantics" Versus 44/45 (1986), 201-219 (appeared in 1988).
105. "The problem of old evidence", pp. 153-165 in David F. Austin (ed.), Philosophical Analysis (Dordrecht: Reidel, 1988).
106. "Symmetry Arguments in Science and Metaphysics", pp. 385-409 in W. Deppert (ed.), Exact Sciences and Their Philosophical Foundations (Frankfurt: Verlag Peter Lang, 1988).
107. "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).
108. "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.
109. "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).
110. "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).
111. "Figures in a Probability Landscape", pp. 345-356 in Dunn, M.and Gupta, A. (eds.) Truth or Consequences. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1990.
112. Review of W. V. O. Quine, Pursuit of Truth. Times Literary Supplement, August 10-16, 1990.

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Articles after 1990

113. "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.
114. "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.
115. "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.
116. "On (Ix)(x = Lambert)" in W. Spohn, B. van Fraassen, and Brian Skyrms (eds.) Existence and Explanation. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1991, pp. 1-18.
117. "Jeffrey Shifts and Self-Adjoint Operators", Philosophy of Science 59 (1992),163-175.
118. "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.
119. "La Meccanica Quantistica: uno spettro di interpretazioni", Iride 7 (1991), 28-50.
120. "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.
121. "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.
122. "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.]
123. "Armstrong, Cartwright, and Earman on Laws and Symmetry", Phenomenology and Philosophical Research, 53 (1993), 431-444.
124. "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.
125. "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.
126. "Gideon Rosen on constructive empiricism", Philos. Studies 74 (1994), 179-192.
127. "Against Transcendental Empiricism", in T. J. Stapledon (ed.) The Question of Hermeneutics. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1994.
128. "The World of Empiricism", pp. 114-134 in Jan Hilgevoort (ed.) Physics and Our View of the World. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
129. "Interpretation of science: science as interpretation", pp. 169-187 in Jan Hilgevoort (ed.) Physics and Our View of the World. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
130. "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

131. "Belief and the problem of Ulysses and the Sirens", Philos. Studies 77 (1995), 7-37 (this paper overlaps published item 117).
132. "A philosophical approach to the foundations of science", Foundations of Science 1 (1995/96), 5-9.
133. Little review of S. Shapin, A Social History of Truth, Common Knowledge 4 (1995), 81-82.
134. "Against Naturalized Empiricism", pp. 68-88 in P. Leonardi and M. Santambrogio (eds.) On Quine. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1995.
135. "Fine-grained opinion, probability, and the logic of belief", Journal of Philosophical Logic, 24 (1995), 349-377.
136. "'World' is not a count noun", Nous 29 (1995), 139-157.
137. "Science, probability, and the proposition", PSA94, vol. 2, pp. 339-348. East Lansing,MI: Philosophy of Science Association, 1995.
138. "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.
139. "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.
140. "Elgin on Lewis' Putnam's Paradox", Journal of Philosophy 94 (1997), 85-93.
141. "Probabilite' conditionelle et certitude" (revised version of ."Fine-grained opinion, conditional probability, and the logic of belief", 1995), Dialogue 36 (1997), 69-90.
142. "Comments on Peter Roeper's 'The link between probability functions and logical consequence", Dialogue 36 (1997), 27-31.
143. (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.
144. "Putnam's Paradox: Metaphysical Realism Revamped and Evaded", Philosophical Perspectives, vol. 11 (Boston: Blackwell, 1997), pp. 17-42.
145. "Modal interpretation of repeated measurement: reply to Leeds and Healey", Philosophy of Science 64 (1997), 669-676.
146. "Sola experientia? Feyerabend's Refutation of Classical Empiricism", Philosophy of Science 64 (1997), S385-S395.
147. "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.
148. "The agnostic subtly probabilified", Analysis 58 (1998), 212-220.
149. Review: J. Bub, Interpreting the Quantum World. Foundations of Physics 28 (1998), 683-689.
150. "Response: Haldane on the future of philosophy", New Blackfriars 80 (1999), 177-181.
151. "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.
152. "Conditionalization, A New Argument For", Topoi 18 (1999), 93-96.

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Articles from 2000 on

153. "The False Hopes of Traditional Epistemology", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 60 (2000), 253-280.
154. "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.
155. "How is scientific revolution/conversion possible?", Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 73 (1999 -- appeared in 2000), 63-80.
156. "The sham victory of abstraction" (Review of Feyerabend, Conquest of Abundance), Times Literary Supplement 5073: June 23, 2000, 10-11.
157. "La fin de l'empirisme?" Revue Philosophique de Louvain 98 (2000), 449-479.
158. "Michel Ghins on the empirical vs. the theoretical", Foundations of Science 30 (2000), 1655-1661.
159. "Constructive Empiricism Now", Philosophical Studies 106 (2001), 151-170.
160. "Literate Experience: The [De-, Re-] Interpretation of Nature ", Versus 85/86/87 (2000), 331-358 (published in 2002).
161. "On McMullin's Appreciation of Realism Concerning the Sciences"", Philosophy of Science 70 (2003), 479-492.
162. "Constructive Empiricism and Modal Nominalism " (with Bradley Monton), British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 54 (2003), pp. 405-422.
163. "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.
164. "Transcendence of the Ego: The Non-Existent Knight", Ratio (new series) XVII (2004), 453-477.
165. "Précis" and "Replies" in book symposium on The Empirical Stance. Philosophical Studies 121 (2004), 127-132 and 171-192.
166. "Science as Representation: Flouting the Criteria", Philosophy of Science 71 (2004), 794-804.
167. "Conditionalizing on violated Bell's inequalities", Analysis 65.1 (Jan 2005), pp. 27-32.
168. “Appearance versus Reality as a Scientific Problem”, Philosophic Exchange 35 (2005), 34-67.
169. "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.
170. “Vague Expectation Loss”, Philosophical Studies 127 (2006), 483–491.
171. “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.
172. “Replies”, pp. 125-171 in ibid.
173. “One Hundred and Fifty Years of Philosophy”, Topoi 2006, 123-127.
174. « Le Fictionalisme des Entités Inobservables  » in Science et Avenir, Hors-Série : Les fictions de la science, n°147, juillet/août 2006.
175. “Structure: its Shadow and Substance”, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 57 (2006), 275-307.
176. "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.
177. “Structuralism(s) About Science: Some Common Problems”, Proceedings of the Aristotelian SocietySupplementary Volume LXXXI (2007), pp. 45-61.
178. “Representation: the Problem for Structuralism”, Philosophy of Science 73 (2006), pp. 536-547.
179. “The Constitutive A Priori” Review of Ryckman, The Reign of Relativity. Metascience 16 (2007), pp. 407-419.
180. “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.
181. “Identity over Time: Objectively, Subjectively”, with I. Peschard. Philosophical Quarterly 58 (2008), pp. 15-35.
182. “How to Talk about Unobservables” (with F. A. Muller), Analysis 68 (2008), 197–205.
183. “Representation and Perspective in Science”. Principia 11(2007), 97-116.
184. “Identity over Time: Objectively, Subjectively”, with I. Peschard. Philosophical Quarterly 58 (2008), pp. 15-35.
185. “How to Talk about Unobservables” (with F. A. Muller), Analysis 68 (2008), 197–205.
186. “Sloughs Of Despond, Mountains Of Joy” Critical Quarterly 50: 4 (Dec. 2008) , 74-87.
187. Review: Graham Oppy, Philosophical Perspectives on Infinity. International Philosophical Quarterly 48/2 (June 2008), pages 257-258.
188. “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.
189. 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
190. “The Perils of Perrin, at the hands of philosophers” Philosophical Studies 143 (2009): 5-24.
191. “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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