Publications

Please note that the links below are not to the essays as published. Pagination will therefore differ from the published version, and there may be some minor differences within the text.

“On Quine on Carnap on Ontology”, Philosophical Studies Vol. 102 (2001), pp. 93-122.

“Should the Empiricist be a Constructive Empiricist?”, Philosophy of Science Vol. 68 No. 4 (2001), pp. 413-431.

“Stroud’s Carnap”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research Vol. 64 No. 2 (2002), pp. 276-302.

“The NOAer’s Dilemma: Constructive Empiricism and the Natural Ontological Attitude”, Canadian Journal of Philosophy Vol. 33 No. 3 (2003), pp. 307-322.

“Seeing the Unobservable: van Fraassen and the Limits of Experience”, Synthese Vol. 140 No. 3 (2004), pp. 331-353

“Constructive Empiricism and Epistemic Modesty: Reply to Van Fraassen and Monton”, Erkenntnis, 64 No. 3 (2006) pp. 371-379,

“Knowledge Externalism”, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 87 No. 3 (2006), pp. 289-300.

“Pretending to See”, Philosophical Psychology, Vol. 19 No. 6 (2006), pp. 713-728.

The Philosophy of Science: An Historical Anthology, ed. with Timothy McGrew and Fritz Allhoff. Wiley-Blackwell (2009).

“Why Safety Doesn’t Save Closure”, Synthese Vol. 183 No. (2011), pp. 127-142.

“Constructive Empiricism Revisited” (review of Paul Dicken, Constructive Empiricism: Epistemology and the Philosophy of Science), Metascience, Vol. 21 No. 1 (2012), pp. 187-191.

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