Books
Knowing the Structure of Nature: Essays on Realism and Explanation, Palgrave -MacMillan, 2009.
Click
here
for the Table of Contents + Chapter 1+ Index
A review
of it by Igor Douven (Metascience)
An another
one by Andrés Rivadulla (Theoria)
Επιστήμη και Αλήθεια: Δοκίμια στη Φιλοσοφία της Επιστήμης, Εκδόσεις Οκτώ
Science
and Truth: Essays in the Philosophy of Science, Okto Publishers
The Routledge
Companion to the Philosophy of Science (with
martin Curd), Routledge 2008.
Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2008.
Here is a review
of RCPS by Roman Frigg (Metascience)
Reviews
Psillos (Scientific Realism) and Curd (Principles
of Reasoning) have amassed essays by 58 internationally dispersed integrative
science and philosophy scholars. Divided into four parts, the book's
multipage essays discuss historical and philosophical contexts, explain
debates surrounding various isms, unpack broad philoscientific concepts like
causation, and survey individual areas that employ scientific
approaches, including economics and mathematics. While filled with allusions
and field-specific language not accessible to uninitiated readers, the essays
illuminate more abstruse philosophical tracts and make carefully measured
connections between the higher realms of science and the actual world. Highly
recommended for history of science and philosophy collections.
LIBRARY JOURNAL, August 2008.
‘With a
distinguished list of internationally renowned contributors, an excellent
choice of topics in the field, and well-written, well-edited essays
throughout, this compendium is an excellent resource. It will work well for
any serious scholar inside or outside the field interested in the current
state of philosophy of science. Highly recommended.'
- CHOICE, Sept. 2008
'Here is
philosophy of science the way it should be. In these pages some of the very
best philosophers working today grapple with the big issues of metaphysics,
language, and epistemology as they relate to science. This volume is a true
introduction to a philosophy of science that has real stature; a philosophy
of science that puts the subject at the crossing point of arguments from
across the intellectual landscape.' - Peter
Galison, Harvard University, USA
'This is
an outstanding companion. With over fifty chapters by uniformly distinguished
contributors, it offers a stimulating and often original introduction to
every facet of the subject. There is no better guide to the philosophy of
science on the market.' - David Papineau, King's
College London
‘This well
conceived and comprehensive volume brings together a remarkable collection of
authors, including many of the leading contemporary contributors to the
philosophy of science. It will be of great value to students of the
philosophy of science at all levels.’ - John
Dupré, University of Exeter, UK
Λογική: Η Δομή του Επιχειρήματος, Νεφέλη 2007 (με τους Δημήτρη Πορτίδη και
Διονύση Αναπολιτάνο)
(Logic: The Structure of Argument, Nefeli 2007
(co-authored with Demetris Portides and D A Anapolitanos)).
Here is a
review of it by Aris Arageorgis (in Greek)
Philosophy
of Science A-Z, Edinburgh
University Press, 2007
This is a dictionary: from A priori to Elie
Zahar.
Daniel McArthur in Philosophy
in Review
Lilia Gurova Review
in The Balkan Journal of Philosophy
Howard Sankey review
in Philosophy of Science
Costas Krimbas review in
Eleftherotypia.
Causation and
Explanation, Acumen & McGill-Queens
U.P., 2002.
Winner of the BSPS Presidents’
Award 2004
Click here
for the Table of Contents and the Introduction.
Reviewed:
Metascience
(James Ladyman)
Philosophy
of Science (Ingo Brigandt)
Australasian
Journal of Philosophy (Phil Dowe)
Philosophical
Books (David H. Sanford)
Nefsis (Eleni Manolakaki)
Scientific Realism:
How Science Tracks Truth,1999, Routledge.
(2nd impression 2002)
Click
here to read the Introduction.
Here
for the Table of Contents.
Symposium on Scientific Realism: How Science Tracks Truth:
"Quests for a Realist", Metascience 10, No. 3, pp. 341-71. (Symposiasts:
Michael Redhead, Peter Lipton, Igor Douven, Otavio Bueno.
Reviewed:
Ratio (Alexander Bird)
Philosophical
Books (Marc Lange)
Mind (Jarrett Leplin)
International
Journal of Philosophical Studies (Patrick
Enfield)
Philosophy
and Phenomenological Research (Brian Ellis)
Philosophical
Review (Jerry Doppelt)
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Interviews
Here is a piece about what it is to be a modern
Greek philosopher—by Kathryn Koromilas for the magazine Odyssey.
Here is an interview
about Philosophy of Science—to appear in Robert Rosenberger (ed.) 5 Questions in Philosophy of Science, Automatic Press/VIP.
Work in Progress
Papers
 Is the History of Science the Wasteland of
False Theories? (see it here)
Semirealism
or Neo-Aristotelianism?
Mechanisms sans Metaphysics (See the slides here)
Anti-Nominalistic
Scientific Realism: a Defence
Causal-descriptivism
and the reference of theoretical terms
Is Kuhn’s Structure an Anti-realist Manifesto?
Books
I am in the (long)
process of writing a book on empiricism—better empiricisms. It
will come out by Acumen in due course.
Projects with former and current students
With Demetra
Christopoulou: Frege and neo-logicism. (Papers in Greek:
Frege; neologicism)
With Nikos Bisketzis:
A paper on the Simpson paradox and its implications for probabilistic
causation. Click here to
see it (in Greek; Nefsis, volume 16)
With Milena
Ivanova: An introduction to Duhem’s philosophy of Science (in Greek),
which has appeared as an appendix in the Greek translation of Duhem’s To
Save the Phenomena. Click here
for the final version.
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Papers
Forthcoming
‘One Cannot be Just a Little Bit Realist: Putnam and van Fraassen’ in James Robert Brown (ed.) Philosophy of Science: The Key Thinkers,
Continuum 2011.
Making
Contact with Molecules: On Perrin and Achinstein Philosophy of Science Matters: the Philosophy of Peter Achinstein,
Gregory J Morgan (ed.) Oxford University Press,
2011.
Adding
Modality to Ontic Structuralism: An Exploration and Critique in E. Landry
and D. Rickles (eds), Structure, Object, and Causality, Western Ontario
Series in Philosophy of Science; Dordrecht: Springer, 2011.
‘Reason in
Science’ in Cristina Amoretti & Nicla Vassallo (eds) Reason and
Rationality, Ontos Verlag, 2011
‘The
Scope and Limits of the No-Miracles Argument’ in Friedrich
Stadler et al (eds The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective, Vol.
II, Springer
‘Scientific
Realism with a Humean Face’—Continuum Companion to the Philosophy of
Science (French and Saatsi eds.)
‘Regularities
all the way down: Thomas Brown’s Philosophy of Causation’ In Causation
and Modern Philosophy, (Routledge Advances in the History of
Philosophy), Keith Allen και Tom Stoneham (eds.) Routledge 2011.
“The
Idea of Mechanism” in Phyllis McKay, Federica Russo & Jon Williamson
(eds.) Causation in the Sciences, Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2010.
‘Scientific
Realism: Between Platonism and Nominalism’, Philosophy of Science
(Proceedings) December 2010.
“An
Explorer upon Untrodden Ground: Peirce on Abduction” Handbook of the History of Logic
Volume 10 -- Inductive Logic (John Woods,
Dov Gabbay και Stephan Hartmann eds.) Elsevier
“On
Reichenbach’s Argument for Scientific Realism” Synthese
“Choosing
the Realist Framework”, Synthese
‘Living
with the Abstract: Realism and Models’, Synthese.
2009
‘Causal Pluralism’, in Robrecht Vanderbeeken & Bart D’Hooghe (eds.) Worldviews, Science
and Us:
Studies of Analytical Metaphysics: A Selection of Topics From a
Methodological Perspective, World
Scientific Publishers. . Click here
for the paper.
‘Causation
and Regularity’ in Oxford Handbook
of Causation, Helen Beebee, Peter Menzies & Chris Hitchcock, (eds.) Oxford University Press.
‘The
A Priori: Between Conventions and Implicit Definitions, (με την Δήμητρα Χριστοπούλου) in The
A Priori and its
Role in Philosophy,
Nikola Kompa, Christian Nimtz, Christian Suhm
(eds.) Mentis, 2009, 205-220.
2008
‘Cartwright’s
Realist Toil: From Entities to Capacities’, in Cartwright’s Philosophy
of Science, (eds. Stephan Hartman, Carl Hoefer &
Luc Bovens), 2008, Routledge, pp.167-194.
Philosophy
of Science in the 20th Century in The
Routledge Companion to the 20th Century Philosophy, Dermot
Moran (ed.) 2008, Routledge,
618-657.
‘Carnap
and Incommensurability’ Philosophical
Inquiry, volume 30, 2008, 135-156.
2007
Past
and Contemporary Perspectives on Explanation,
in Handbook
of the Philosophy of Science: Focal Issues. Volume editor: Theo Kuipers. Handbook
editors: Dov M. Gabbay, Paul Thagard and John Woods. 2007, Elsevier BV, 97-173.
‘What is Causation?’ in Beena Choksi and
Chitra Natarajan (eds.) The epiSTEME Reviews: Research trends in
Science, Technology and Mathematics Education, Macmillan India Ltd, 2007, pp.11-34. Click here
to get it.
‘The Fine
Structure of Inference to the Best Explanation’ Philosophy and
Phenomenological Research 74, 2007,
441-448 (part of a symposium on Peter’s Lipton Inference
to the Best Explanation).
Putting a
Bridle on Irrationality: An Appraisal of Van Fraassen’s New Epistemology in Bradley Monton (ed.) Images of Empiricism, in Bradley Monton (ed.) Images of Empiricism, Oxford University Press, 2007, 134-164.
How To Do
Things With Theories: An Interactive View of Language and Models in Science’
(with Robin Hendry), in J. Brzeziñski, A. Klawiter, T.A.F. Kuipers, K.
Lastowski, K. Paprzycka, P. Przybysz (eds.), The Courage of Doing
Philosophy: Essays Dedicated to Leszek Nowak, pp. 59-115, Amsterdam/New
York, NY: Rodopi, 2007.
“Reflections
on Conceptual Change” in Stella Vosniadou, Aristides Baltas and Xenia Vamvakoussi (eds) Reframing the Conceptual Change
Approach in Learning and Instruction 2007 by Elsevier Ltd.
“Causal
Explanation and Manipulation” in Johannes Person & Petri Ylikoski
(eds). Rethinking Explanation, Boston Studies in the
Philosophy of Science, vol. 252. Springer 2007, pp. 97-112.
“Realism”, “Causal
Law”, “Inference”, “Reference”, “Nicod’s Criterion”, “Philosophy of Science”
in A Dictionary of Critical Realism, Mervyn Hartwig (ed.),
Routledge, 2007.
2006
“The Structure, the Whole Structure and Nothing but the
Structure?”, Philosophy of Science 73, 2006,
σσ. 560–570.
Ramsey’s
Ramsey-sentences in Cambridge and Vienna:
Frank P Ramsey and the Vienna Circle (Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook 12),
(ed. Maria Carla
Galavotti), 2006, Springer, pp. 67-90.
‘Stephen
Mumford’s Laws in Nature’ Metascience (part of a symposium
on Stephen Mumford’s book Laws in Nature.)
‘What do
Powers do when they are not Manifested?’ Philosophy and
Phenomenological Research, volume 72, No. 1, 2006, pp.135-156.
Thinking
About the Ultimate Argument for Realism, in Rationality & Reality,
156Essays In Honour of Alan Musgrave (Colin Cheyne & John Worrall,
eds), 2006, Springer, pp. 133-156
2005
Scientific
Realism and Metaphysics Ratio, 18, 2005, pp. 385-404
‘History
of Philosophy of Science’, Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd
Edition,
Gale MacMillan
Reference, 2005.
‘Underdetermination’,
Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd Edition, Gale
MacMillan Reference,
2005.
‘Scientific
Realism’ Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd
Edition, Gale MacMillan Reference, 2005.
.
2004
‘Causality’
in New Dictionary
of the History of Ideas, Maryanne Cline Horowitz,
(ed.), Charles Scribner’s Sons Reference Books, pp. 272-280
‘A
Glimpse of the Secret Connexion: Harmonising Mechanisms with Counterfactuals’
Perspectives on Science, 12, 288-319.
‘Tracking
the Real: Through Thick and Thin’ The British Journal for the
Philosophy of Science.
‘Inference
to the Best Explanation and Bayesianism’ in F. Stadler (ed.) Induction
and Deduction in the Sciences, Kluwer, 2004, pp.83-91
'Scientific Realism' in P. Clark & C. Hawley (eds) Philosophy
of Science Today, Oxford University Press.
2003
Theories of Scientific Method: Models
for the Physico-Mathematical Sciences’ (with Nancy Cartwright and Hasok
Chang), in M. J. Nye (ed.) Cambridge History of Science, Cambridge
U.P.
2002
'Salt does
dissolve in water, but not necessarily', Analysis, 62, pp.255-7.
'Simply the Best: A Case for Abduction’ in A. C. Kakas & F. Sadri (eds) Computational Logic: From
Logic Programming into the Future, LNAI 2408, Berlin-Heidelberg:
Springer-Verlag, (2002), pp.605-25.
’What
is the Positive Content of Negative Realism?’ (in Greek) NEYSIS 11,
85-95.
2001
'Predictive
Similarity and the Success of Science: A Reply to Stanford', Philosophy
of Science, 68, No. 3, pp.346-55.
'Is
Stuctural Realism Possible?' Philosophy of Science (Supplement) 68,
No. 3, pp.S13-S24.
'Author's Response' Metascience,
10, no. 3, pp. 366-70.
2000
‘Sobre a Critica de van Fraassen ao Raciocinio Abdutivo’ Crtica-Revista
de Filosofia, 6, (2000) 35-62. (Portuguese translation of 'On van Fraassen's Critique of Abductive
Reasoning'
'The
Present State of the Scientific Realism Debate' British Journal for
the Philosophy of Science, 51 (Special Supplement), pp.705-728.
'Abduction:
Between Conceptual Richness and Computational Complexity' in A. K. Kakas and
P. Flach (eds.) Abduction and Induction: Essays in their Relation and
Integration, (Applied Logic Series, Vol. 18) Kluwer, pp. 59-74.
'An
Introduction to Carnap's 'Theoretical Concepts in Science'" (together
with the hitherto unpublished lecture by Carnap: "Theoretical Concepts
in Science"), Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 31,
pp.151-172.
'Empiricism
vs Scientific Realism: Belief in Truth Matters', International Studies
in the Philosophy of Science, 14, pp.57-75.
'Carnap,
the Ramsey-Sentence and Realistic Empiricism', Erkenntnis, 52,
pp.253-279.
1997
'Naturalism
Without Truth?' Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 28,
pp.699-713.
'Kitcher
on Reference' International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 11,
pp.259-272.
'How
Not to Defend Constructive Empiricism: A Rejoinder' The Philosophical Quarterly, 47,
pp.369-372.
1996
'Scientific
Realism and the "Pessimistic Induction"' Philosophy of
Science, 63, pp.S306-S314.
'On van
Fraassen's Critique of Abductive Reasoning' The Philosophical
Quarterly, 46, pp. 31-47.
'Poincare's
Conception of Mechanical Explanation' in Jean-Louis Greffe, Gerhar
Heinzmann and Kuno Lorenz (eds) Henri Poincarè: Science and
Philosophy, Berlin: Academie Verlag & Paris: Albert Blanchard, 1996,
pp.177-191.
1995
'Is
Structural Realism the Best of Both Worlds?', Dialectica, 1995, 49,
pp.15-46.
'The Cognitive
Interplay Between Theories and Models: The Case of 19th Century Optics', in
W. E. Herfel, W. Krajewski, I. Niiniluoto & R. Wojcicki (eds.) Theories
and Models in Scientific Processes, Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of
the Sciences and the Humanities, 44, pp. 105-133.
1994
'A
Philosophical Study of the Transition from the Caloric Theory of Heat to
Thermodynamics: Resisting the Pessimistic Meta-Induction', Studies in
History and Philosophy of Science, 25, pp. 159-190.
1992
'Conceptions and
Misconceptions of Ether' in M. C. Duffy (ed.) Proceedings of the 3rd
International Conference on the Physical Interpretations of Relativity
Theory, Imperial College, London, 1992, pp.544-556.
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Book Reviews
2009
Review of Anjan
Chakravartty A
Metaphysics of Scientific Realism: Knowing the Unobservable ISIS (with Dimitris Papayannakos).
Review of Sankey,
Howard, Scientific
Realism and the Rationality of Science, Australasian Journal of
Philosophy.
2008
Review of Derek
Turner Making Prehistory: Historical Science and the Scientific Realism
Debate, Notre Dame Review of Books, 2008.
2007
Review of Willem de Vries Sellars,
(with Andreas Karitzis) Metascience, 16, (2007), 555-559
Review of Ben-Menahem Conventionalism,
Philosophy in Review 27 (2007), 243-245.
2005
Review
of Norris, Christopher, Philosophy of Language and the Challenge to
Scientific Realism, Journal of Critical Realism 4, (2005), 255-261.
2004
Review of Achinstein, P: The
Book of Evidence, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 68,
no. 3, pp. 740-3.
Review of Musgrave, A. Essays
on realism and Rationalism, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, September 2004, vol. 34, pp.
440-4.
2002
Review of Solomon, M. Social
Empiricism, Philosophy of Science 69, (2002), pp.545-7.
Review
of Niiniluoto, I. Critical
Scientific Realism, MIND, 111, pp.454-8.
2001
Review of
Mossison, M & Morgan, M. (eds) Models
as Mediators, Economics and Philosophy, 17, No. 2, pp.
288-94 (co-authored with Francesco Guala).
Review
of Kukla, A. Studies
in Scientific Realism, The Foundations of Chemistry, 3,
pp.79-86.
Review
of Giere, R. Science
Without Laws, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science,
15:1 (March 2001), pp. 102-105
2000
Review
of Wilson, F. The Logic And Methodology of Science in Early Modern Thought,
Philosophy in Review, XX, No.6, pp.447-449.
'Review
of Richardson, A. Carnap's Construction of the World, MIND, 109,
pp.986-990.
World
According to Flux of Tropes' (Review of Niiniluoto, I. Critical Scientific
Realism) The Times Higher Education Supplement, 6 October 2000, p.
29.
1999
Review of Gower, B: Theories
of Scientific Method, Ratio, XII, pp.310-316.
1998
'True Stories', Nature, 392, pp. 35-36.
1996
Review of
Marsonet, M.: Language, Science and Reality, British Journal for
the Philosophy of Science, 47, pp.663-668.
'Rights from
Wrongs', Nature, 383, (24 October 1996), p.682.
1995
Review
of Aronson J., Harre R., & Way E. C.,: Realism Rescued International
Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 9, pp.179-183.
Review
of Roger Trigg: Rationality and Science, MIND, 104,
pp.674-679.
Review
of Karl Popper: The Myth of the Framework Philosophy in Review, 15, pp.200-202.
1994
Review
of Paul Hoyningen-Huene: Reconstructing Scientific Revolutions and
Paul Horwich (ed.):World Changes, British Journal for the
Philosophy of Science, 45, pp.923-926.
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