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- Structural losses, structural realism and the stability of Lie algebras
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- How revealed preference theory can be explanatory
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- Representation in Cognitive Function by Nicholas Shea: Organization and Structure in the Service of Systematicity and Productivity
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- Testing galaxy formation and dark matter with low surface brightness galaxies
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- Angular momentum without rotation: Turbocharging relationalism
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- What Bohr wanted Carnap to learn from quantum mechanics
- Science and Moral Imagination: A New Ideal for Values in Science by Matthew J. Brown: Moral Imagination and Transactionally Situated Knowing: Author Meets Critics
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- The curvature argument
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- Science and Moral Imagination: A New Ideal for Values in Science by Matthew J. Brown: Reply by the Author
- Science and Moral Imagination by Matthew J. Brown: Practice Makes Perfect.
- The role of purifying selection in the origin and maintenance of complex function
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- ‘Species’ without species
- Improving philosophical dialogue interventions to better resolve problematic value pluralism in collaborative environmental science
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- Interpreting the Wigner–Eckart Theorem
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- Essay review, Wootton and Wittgenstein.
- Author’s responses
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- Modelling gene regulation: (De)compositional and template-based strategies
- A role for spatiotemporal scales in modeling
- Models on the move: Migration and imperialism
- Calibration: Modelling the measurement process
- Reduction redux
- Physicalism, realization, and structure
- Cognition wars
- “What is living and What is Dead” in materialism?
- Multiple realization and multiple “ways” of realization: A progress report
- The making of measurement: Editors’ introduction
- Modelling and knowledge transfer in complexity science
- Nuclear science and technology in the Malaysian context: Three phases of technoscientific knowledge transfer (ETTLG)
- Fresnel’s laws, ceteris paribus
- State of the field: Paper tools
- A structural interpretation of measurement and some related epistemological issues
- From artefacts to atoms – A new SI for 2018 to be based on fundamental constants
- An aging literary revolution: Stuck with the paradigm
- What’s nu? A re-examination of Maxwell’s ‘ratio-of-units’ argument, from the mechanical theory of the electromagnetic field to ‘On the elementary relations between electrical measurements’
- Towards a research program in Kantian positive psychology
- Kant and the scope of analogy in the life sciences
- Maimon’s criticism of Kant’s doctrine of mathematical cognition and the possibility of metaphysics as a science
- Scientific pluralism and metaphysics
- Defending the selective confirmation strategy
- Kuhnian theory-choice and virtue convergence: Facing the base rate fallacy
- Hubris to humility: Tonal volume and the fundamentality of psychophysical quantities
- Clinical outcome measurement: Models, theory, psychometrics and practice
- Duhemian good sense and agent reliabilism
- Magnitude, moment, and measurement: The seismic mechanism controversy and its resolution
- Was Feyerabend an anarchist? The structure(s) of ‘anything goes’
- The evaluation of measurement uncertainties and its epistemological ramifications
- The history of science as the progress of the human spirit: The historiography of astronomy in the eighteenth century
- Science denial as a form of pseudoscience
- No actual measurement … was required: Maxwell and Cavendish’s null method for the inverse square law of electrostatics
- The directionality of distinctively mathematical explanations
- The appeal to robustness in measurement practice
- Theories that narrate the world: Ronald A. Fisher’s mass selection and Sewall Wright’s shifting balance
- Narrative possibility and narrative explanation
- Acidity: Modes of characterization and quantification
- Review essay, models and exploratory models
- Narrative ordering and explanation
- On the narrative form of simulations
- Narrative science and narrative knowing. Introduction to special issue on narrative science
- Scientists’ attitudes on science and values: Case studies and survey methods in philosophy of science
- Ten reasons to embrace scientism
- The cultures of mathematical economics in the postwar Soviet Union: More than a method, less than a discipline
- Narrative constructs in modern clinical case reporting
- Narrative and natural history in the eighteenth century
- Introduction: Testing philosophical theories
- Kepler: Analogies in the search for the law of refraction
- Extensional scientific realism vs. intensional scientific realism
- Who was William Hyde Wollaston?
- Kant on anatomy and the status of the life sciences
- Kepler’s optics: Ocular anatomy, the visual faculty, and the continuity-discontinuity debate
- Hermann Cohen’s Das Princip der Infinitesimal-Methode: The history of an unsuccessful book
- Reactionary responses to the Bad Lot Objection
- The many encounters of Thomas Kuhn and French epistemology
- Quine’s ‘needlessly strong’ holism
- ‘Natures’ and ‘Laws’: The making of the concept of law of nature – Robert Grosseteste (c. 1168–1253) and Roger Bacon (1214/1220–1292)
- Pluto and the platypus: An odd ball and an odd duck – On classificatory norms
- Editorial board and publication information
- Essentially narrative explanations
- The ontology of quantum field theory: Structural realism vindicated?
- Silent performances: Are “repertoires” really post-Kuhnian?
- Structural realism versus deployment realism: A comparative evaluation
- Other histories, other sciences
- Philosophical bodies in early modern Europe
- The experimenters’ regress reconsidered: Replication, tacit knowledge, and the dynamics of knowledge generation
- Analogical reflection as a source for the science of life: Kant and the possibility of the biological sciences
- How we load our data sets with theories and why we do so purposefully
- Process tracing in political science: What’s the story?
- From secondary causes to artificial instruments: Pierre-Sylvain Régis’s rethinking of scholastic accounts of causation
- Overlapping ontologies and Indigenous knowledge. From integration to ontological self-determination
- Repertoires: A post-Kuhnian perspective on scientific change and collaborative research
- Carnap on unified science
- Forms of presentism in the history of science. Rethinking the project of historical epistemology
- The re-emergence of hyphenated history-and-philosophy-of-science and the testing of theories of scientific change
- Whewell on the classification of the sciences
- Looking forward, not back: Supporting structuralism in the present
- Can the behavioral sciences self-correct? A social epistemic study
- Structural realism beyond physics
- Locke on measurement
- Democratic values and their role in maximizing the objectivity of science
- Newton and the ideal of exegetical success
- A choice-semantical approach to theoretical truth
- Linguistic turns: Scientific Babel, the language of science, and the science of language
- Taming theory with thought experiments: Understanding and scientific progress
- Did Samuel Clarke really disavow action at a distance in his correspondence with Leibniz?: Newton, Clarke, and Bentley on gravitation and action at a distance
- Deflating Cold War rationality
- Introduction: Kant and the empirical sciences
- Graph-based inductive reasoning
- Natural history and the formation of the human being: Kant on active forces
- Mechanistic explanation, cognitive systems demarcation, and extended cognition
- Epigenesis in Kant: Recent reconsiderations
- In defence of story-telling