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The ethics of cover songs
, with Evan Malone
Forthcoming
Scurvy and the ontology of natural kinds
Completed work
Underdetermination
Background theories and total science
(2005)
Hormone research as an exemplar of underdetermination
(2005)
The Identical Rivals Response to underdetermination
, with Greg Frost-Arnold (2010)
Peirce: Underdetermination, agnosticism, and related mistakes
(2005)
Reckoning the shape of everything
(2005)
Underdetermination and the claims of science
(2003)
Underdetermination and the Problem of Identical Rivals
(2003)
Natural kinds
Drakes, seadevils, and similarity fetishism
(2011)
Epistemic categories and causal kinds
(2014)
How to be a realist about natural kinds
(2018)
John Stuart Mill on taxonomy and natural kinds
(2015)
No grist for Mill on natural kinds
(2014)
NK≠HPC
(2014)
Scientific enquiry and natural kinds: From planets to mallards
(2012)
Taxonomy, ontology, and natural kinds
(2018)
Scientific realism
Cautious realism and middle range ontology
(2018)
Inductions, red herrings, and the best explanation for the mixed record of science
(2010)
Miracles, trust, and ennui in Barnes'
Predictivism
(2011)
Realist ennui and the base rate fallacy
, with Craig Callender (2004)
Success, truth, and the Galilean Strategy
(2003)
What's new about the New Induction?
(2006)
Values and science
Inductive Risk, Science, and Values: a reply to MacGillivray
, with Dan Hicks and Jessey Wright (2020)
The scope of inductive risk
(2022)
Science and rationality for one and all
(2014)
Science, values, and the priority of evidence
(2018)
What scientists know is not a function of what scientists know
(2013)
What kind of is-ought gap is there and what kind ought there be?
with Jon Mandle (2017)
William James on risk, efficacy, and evidentialism
(2022)
Cover songs
A Philosophy of Cover Songs
(2022)
Appreciating covers
, with Cristyn Magnus, Christy Mag Uidhir, and Ron McClamrock (2022)
Judging covers
, with Cristyn Magnus and Christy Mag Uidhir (2013)
Kind of Borrowed, Kind of Blue
(2016)
Other philosophy of art
Are digital images allographic?
with Jason D'Cruz (2014)
Art concept pluralism
, with Christy Mag Uidhir (2011)
Art concept pluralism undermines the definitional project
, with Christy Mag Uidhir (2022)
Historical individuals like
Anas platyrhynchos
and 'Classical Gas'
(2013)
Mag Uidhir on Performance
(2008)
Preserving the autographic/allographic distinction
, with Jason D'Cruz (2015)
That some of Sol Lewitt's later wall drawings aren't wall drawings
(2018)
Technology and social epistemology
Early response to false claims in Wikipedia
(2008)
Epistemology and the Wikipedia
(2006)
On trusting Wikipedia
(2009)
Reality, sex, and cyberspace
(2000)
Reliability on the crowded net
(2001)
Other philosophy of science
Demonstrative induction and the skeleton of inference
(2008)
Distributed cognition and the task of science
(2007)
Friends with benefits! Distributed cognition hooks up cognitive and social conceptions of science
, with Ron McClamrock (2014)
Philosophy of science in the twenty-first century
(2013)
The price of insisting that quantum mechanics is complete
(2004)
State of the field: Why novel prediction matters
, with Heather Douglas (2013)
Other epistemology
Evidential Nihilism
(2020)
Williamson on Knowledge and Psychological Explanation
, with Jonathan Cohen (2003)
Other history of philosophy
Reid's defense of common sense
(2008)
Reid's dilemma and the uses of pragmatism
(2004)
Open education resources (OER)
forall x
(2005)
Unpublished miscellanea
Correspondence with Putnam on natural kinds
(2010-11)
How sitting in a café might be metaphysically as problematic as time travel
(2004)
Tricky cases and Teller's programme
(2005)
What SPECIES can teach us about THEORY
(2007)
Regarding scientific significance
(2008)
The Epistemology of Inclusiveness
(2011)
Emoji art: The aesthetics of 💩
(2018)
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