Articles in Refereed Journals
(for still-to-be-published pieces, PDFs are coming soon)
“There is no core to precaution,” Review Journal of Political Philosophy, forthcoming.
“Imitative Reasoning,” Social Epistemology, forthcoming.
“Two Conception of Fundamentality,” Philosophy of the Social Sciences, forthcoming.
“Precaution has its reasons,” Topics in Contemporary Philosophy 9: The Environment, forthcoming.
2009 “Systems,” Monist 92:3 (2009) 452-78 (issue on Philosophy of Engineering). PDF
2008 “Molecule-for-Molecule Duplication,” Teorema (special issue on phenomenal consciousness and naturalism), 28:3 (2008), 103-114. PDF
2008 “On Planning: Towards a Natural History of the Will,” Philosophical Papers, 37 (2008), 289-317. PDF
2008 “Two Conceptions of Collectivity,” Journal of the Philosophy of History 2 (2008) 83–104. PDF
2007 “Sense and Sensibility,” American Philosphical Quarterly, 44:1 (2007), 71-80, co-authored with Chrisoula Andreou. PDF
2006 “Nonreductive Physics,” Synthese, 149 (2006), 133-178. PDF
2005 “From Paradox to Judgment: An Essay on the Metaphysics of Expression,” Australasian Journal of Logic 3 (2005) 76-107. PDF
2003 “Searle’s Foole: How a Constructionist Account of Society Cannot Substitute for a Causal One,” American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 62 (1), 2003, 105-122. This special issue on John Searle’s Construction of Social Reality will appear simultaneously in book form. PDF
2003 “From Human Nature to Moral Philosophy,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy, supplementary volume 28 (2003), 85-128. PDF
2002 “Explanation is a Genus: On the Varieties of Scientific Explanation,” Synthese, 130 (2002) 317-354. PDF
2002 “The Reduction of Causal Processes,” Synthese, 131 (2002), 99-128. PDF
1999 “Knowledge in an Age of Individual Economy: A Prolegomenon to Epistemology,” Journal of Philosophical Research, 24 (1999), 169-191. PDF
1999 “Degrees of Freedom: An Essay on Competitions between Micro and Macro in Mechanics,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 59 (1999), 1-39. PDF
1999 “In Favor of Being Only Humean,” Philosophical Studies, 93 (1999), 265-98. PDF
1999 “Two Dogmas of Naturalized Epistemology,” Dialectica, 53 (1999), 111-138. PDF
1999 “Why We Believe,” Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 30 (1999), 317-339. PDF
1999 “Units of Decision,” Philosophy of Science, 66 (1999), proceedings volume, S324-S338. PDF
1999 “Degrees of Freedom in the Social World,” Journal of Political Philosophy, 7 (1999), 453-77. PDF
1998 “The Trouble with Superselection Accounts of Measurement,” Philosophy of Science, 65 (1998), 518-544. PDF
1998 “The Economy of Belief, or, Explaining Cooperation Among the Prudent,” American Philosophical Quarterly, 35 (1998), 349-64. PDF
1998 “A Modest Proposal for Interpreting Structural Explanation,” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 49 (1998), 279-295. PDF
1997 “Conflict and Coordination in the Aftermath of Oracular Statements,” The Philosophical Quarterly, 47 (1997), 212-226. PDF
1997 “Self-Interest, Autonomy and the Presuppositions of Decision Theory,” American Philosophical Quarterly, 34 (1997), 287-297. PDF
Chapters in Books:
2007 “Sources of Behavior: Towards a Control Metaphysics of Agency,” Distributed Cognition and the Will, Don Ross and David Spurrett, eds., Harvard: MIT Press, 2007, 123-67. PDF
2005 “What is a feminist to do with rational choice?” Blackwell Companion to Rationalism, Alan Nelson, ed., 2005, 450-468. PDF
2004 “Distinction, Judgment and Discipline,” Categories, Michael Gorman and Jonathan Sanford, eds, Catholic University of America Press, Catholic University of America Press, 2004, 185-203. PDF
2003 “Introduction,” with Henry Kyburg, Jr., in M. Thalos and H. Kyburg, Jr., eds., Probability is the Very Guide of Life: The Philosophical Uses of Probability, Open Court, 2003. PDF
2003 “The Reduction of Causation,” in M. Thalos and H. Kyburg, Jr., eds., Probability is the Very Guide of Life: The Philosophical Uses of Probability, Open Court, 2003. PDF
2003 “The Logic of Scientific Discovery by Karl Popper,” The Classics of Western Philosophy, J. Gracia, G. Reichberg and B. Schumacher, eds, Blackwell, 2003. PDF
2001 “Paradox and its Undoing: A Speech Act Manifesto,” in John Woods and Bryson Brown, eds., Logical Consequence: Rival Approaches, Paris: Hermes Science Publications, 2001, 297-308. PDF
Articles in Encyclopedias:
“Philosophy of Science,” McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology online. PDF
“Science in Philosophy,” Literary Encyclopedia, 2007, online at http://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=1737.
“Motivation,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online, forthcoming.