BOOKS AND EDITED COLLECTIONS
5. Science and Humanism: Knowledge, Values, and the Common Good (ed.), Cambridge University Press (forthcoming). [Abstract & Contents PDF]
4. Scientific Ontology: Integrating Naturalized Metaphysics and Voluntarist Epistemology, Oxford University Press (2017). [Abstract PDF]
3. ‘Ancient Skepticism, Voluntarism, and Science’, International Journal for the Study of Skepticism (ed.) (2015). [Introduction PDF]
2. ‘Explanation, Inference, Testimony, and Truth: Essays Dedicated to the Memory of Peter Lipton’, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (ed.) (2010). [Introduction PDF]
1. A Metaphysics for Scientific Realism: Knowing the Unobservable, Cambridge University Press (2007). [Abstract PDF]
JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
51. ‘Constructive Nominalism: Metaphysical Foundations for an Epistemic Ecology’, Analysis (forthcoming).
50. ‘Distinctively Scientific Understanding’, in Scientific Understanding, J. Zovko (ed.), Comptes Rendus de l’Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences, vol. 5 (forthcoming), College Publications. [PDF]
49. ‘Aims of Science Education in Light of Ideological Resistance and Epistemic Resistance’, in Reasons in Science, Epistemology, and Education: Essays in Honour of Harvey Siegel, B. Kotzee & K. Sato (eds.) (forthcoming), Springer. [PDF]
48. ‘Introduction: Humanistic Science and Scientific Humanism’, in Science and Humanism: Knowledge, Values, and the Common Good (forthcoming), Cambridge University Press. [PDF]
47. ‘What is Science For? Modern Intersections of Science and Humanism’, in Science and Humanism: Knowledge, Values, and the Common Good (forthcoming), Cambridge University Press. [PDF]
46. ‘Naturalizing Metaphysics: Epistemological Challenges’, in Naturalism and its Challenges, G. N. Kemp, A. H. Khani, H. S. Rezaee, & H. Amiriara (eds.) (2025), Routledge. [PDF]
45. ‘On Semirealism, Realism More Generally, and Underlying Epistemic Stances’, Journal for General Philosophy of Science (2024) 55: 269-288. [PDF]
44. ‘Resolving Debates about Scientific Realism: The Challenge from Stances’, Philosophy of Science (2024) 91: 1306-1315. [PDF]
43. ‘Scientific Knowledge vs. Knowledge of Science: Public Understanding and Science in Society’, Science & Education (2023): 32: 1795-1812. [PDF]
42. ‘Last Chance Saloons for Natural Kind Realism’, American Philosophical Quarterly (2023) 60: 63-81. [PDF]
41. ‘“El Semirrealismo es un Realismo de Propiedades Bien Detectadas”: entrevista con Anjan Chakravartty’, with L. Ralón, in F. V. Galán Vélez (ed.), Entre Realismos, Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México Press (forthcoming 2022). [PDF]
40. ‘O Que é Realismo Científico?’ (with Bas C. van Fraassen), Disputatio (2021) 10: 271-288.
39. ‘Risk, Reward, and Scientific Ontology: Reply to Bryant, Psillos, and Slater’, Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review (2021) 60: 43-63. [PDF] (Related papers by Bryant, Psillos, and Slater.)
38. ‘Realist Representations of Particles: The Standard Model, Top Down and Bottom Up’, in T. D. Lyons & P. Vickers (eds.), Contemporary Scientific Realism: The Challenge from the History of Science, pp. 350-373, Oxford University Press (2021). [PDF]
37. ‘Acerca de la Relación entre el Realismo Científico y la Metafísica Científica’, in B. Borge & N. Gentile (eds.), La ciencia y el mundo inobservable: Discusiones contemporáneas en torno al realismo científico, pp. 97-119, Eudeba (2020).
36. ‘Physics, Metaphysics, Dispositions, and Symmetries – à la French’, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (2019) 74: 10-15 (A4 column format). [PDF]
35. ‘Feelings in Guts and Bones: Reply to Lewis, Magnus, and Strevens’, Metascience (2018) 27: 379-387. [PDF] (Related papers by Lewis, Magnus, and Strevens.)
34. ‘Truth and the Sciences’, in M. Glanzberg (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Truth, pp. 602-624, Oxford University Press (2018). [PDF]
33. ‘What is Scientific Realism?’ (with Bas C. van Fraassen), Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science (2018) 9: 12-25. [PDF]
32. ‘Realism, Antirealism, Epistemic Stances, and Voluntarism’, in J. Saatsi (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Scientific Realism, pp. 225-236, Routledge (2018). [PDF]
31. ‘Inferência Metafísica e a Experiência do Observável’, Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology (2017) 21: 189-207. [PDF]
30. ‘Reflections on New Thinking about Scientific Realism’, Synthese (2017) 194: 3379-3392. [PDF]
29. ‘Saving the Scientific Phenomena: What Powers Can and Cannot Do’, in J. D. Jacobs (ed.), Putting Powers to Work, pp. 24-37, Oxford University Press (2017). [PDF]
28. ‘Scientific Realism’ (version II: revised and updated), in E. N. Zalta (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2017). [URL]
27. ‘Case Studies, Selective Realism, and Historical Evidence’, in M. Massimi, J.-W. Romeign, & G. Schurz, EPSA15 Selected Papers, pp. 13-23, Springer (2017). [PDF]
26. ‘Particles, Causation, and the Metaphysics of Structure’, Synthese (2017) 194: 2273-2289. [PDF]
25. ‘L’existence des lois: les pouvoirs causaux dans la nature’, in B. Feltz, N. Frogneux, & S. Leyens (eds.), La nature en éclats: Cinq controverses philosophiques, pp. 85-105, Academia-L’Harmattan (2015). [PDF]
24. ‘Suspension of Belief and Epistemologies of Science’, International Journal for the Study of Skepticism 5 (2015): 168-192. [PDF]
23. ‘On the Prospects of Naturalized Metaphysics’, in D. Ross, J. Ladyman, & H. Kincaid (eds.), Scientific Metaphysics, pp. 27-50, Oxford University Press (2013). [PDF]
22. ‘Realism in the Desert and in the Jungle: Reply to French, Ghins, and Psillos’, Erkenntnis 78 (2013): 39-58. [PDF] (Related papers by French, Ghins, and Psillos.)
21. ‘Dispositions for Scientific Realism’, in R. Groff & J. Greco (eds.), Powers and Capacities in Philosophy: The New Aristotelianism, pp. 113-127, Routledge (2013). [PDF]
20. ‘Selektywny sceptycyzm: realizm w stosunku do przedmiotów teoretycznych, realizm strukturalny, semirealizm’, Studia Philosophica Wratislaviensia VII (2012): 163-191. [PDF]
19. ‘Ontological Priority: The Conceptual Basis of Non-Eliminative, Ontic Structural Realism’, in E. M. Landry & D. P. Rickles (eds.), Structural Realism: Structure, Object, and Causality (2012), Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, Springer. [PDF]
18. ‘Scientific Realism and Ontological Relativity’, The Monist 94 (2011): 157-180. [PDF]
17. ‘Scientific Realism’, in E. N. Zalta (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2011). [URL]
16. ‘A Puzzle about Voluntarism about Rational Epistemic Stances’, Synthese (2011) 178: 37-48. [PDF]
15. ‘Perspectivism, Inconsistent Models, and Contrastive Explanation’, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (2010) 41: 405-412 (A4 column format). [PDF]
14. ‘Truth and Representation in Science: Two Inspirations from Art’, in R. Frigg & M. C. Hunter (eds.), Beyond Mimesis and Convention: Representation in Art and Science (2010), Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Springer. [PDF]
13. ‘Metaphysics Between the Sciences and Philosophies of Science’, in P. D. Magnus & J. Busch (eds.) New Waves in Philosophy of Science (2010), Palgrave Macmillan. [PDF]
12. ‘Informational versus Functional Theories of Scientific Representation’, Synthese (2009) 72: 197-213. [PDF]
11. ‘What You Don’t Know Can’t Hurt You: Realism and the Unconceived’, Philosophical Studies (2008) 137: 149-158. [PDF]
10. ‘Inessential Aristotle: Powers without Essences’, in R. Groff (ed.) Revitalizing Causality: Realism about Causality in Philosophy and Social Science (2008), Routledge. [PDF]
9. ‘Six Degrees of Speculation: Metaphysics in Empirical Contexts’, in B. Monton (ed.) Images of Empiricism (2007), Oxford University Press. [PDF]
8. ‘Causal Realism: Events and Processes’, Erkenntnis (2005) 63: 7-31. [PDF]
7. ‘Structuralism as a Form of Scientific Realism’, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science (2004) 18: 151-171. [PDF]
6. ‘Stance Relativism: Empiricism versus Metaphysics’, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (2004) 35: 173-184. [PDF]
5. ‘The Structuralist Conception of Objects’, Philosophy of Science (2003) 70: 867-878. [PDF]
4. ‘The Dispositional Essentialist View of Properties and Laws’, International Journal of Philosophical Studies (2003) 11: 393-413. [PDF]
3. ‘The Semantic or Model-Theoretic View of Theories and Scientific Realism’, Synthese (2001) 127: 325-345. [PDF]
2. ‘Semirealism’, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (1998) 29: 391-408. [PDF]
1. Irving, T. C., J. Dunnings, A. Chakravartty, and B. M. Millman, ‘The Effect of High pH and Crosslinking on the Filament Lattice of Vertebrate Striated Muscle’, Biophysical Journal (1988) 53: 565a.
REVIEWS
8. Review of S. Mumford & R. L. Anjum, Getting Causes from Powers, in British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 64 (2013): 895-899. [PDF]
7. Review of B. Ellis, The Metaphysics of Scientific Realism, in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2010). [LINK]
6. Review of A. Bird, Nature’s Metaphysics: Laws and Properties, in Metascience (2009) 18: 75-79. [PDF]
5. Review of I. Niiniluoto, Critical Scientific Realism, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2005) 69: 227-230. [PDF]
4. Review of E. Agazzi & M. Pauri (eds.), The Reality of the Unobservable: Observability, Unobservability and Their Impact on the Issue of Scientific Realism, in British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (2003) 54: 359-363. [PDF]
3. Review of N. Cartwright, The Dappled World: A Study in the Boundaries of Science, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2003) 66: 244-247. [PDF]
2. Review of C. Norris, Quantum Theory and the Flight From Realism: Philosophical Responses to Quantum Mechanics, in Metascience (2001) 10: 483-487. [PDF]
1. Review of N. Maxwell, The Comprehensibility of the Universe: A New Conception of Science, in Times Higher Education Supplement (1999): 24 September.
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