Papers

  1. ‘Broken Structuralism’ Essay Review of Steven French’s  The Structure of the World: Metaphysics & Representation, Metascience forthcoming 2015.
  2. ‘Evidence: Wanted, alive or dead’, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, forthcoming 2015.
  3. ‘Having Science in View: General Philosophy of Science and its Significance’ inPaul Humphreys (ed.) Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Science, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
  4.  ‘Induction and Natural Necessity in the Middle Ages’, Philosophical Inquiry, Philosophical Inquiry, 39, 92-134, 2015.
  5. “Counterfactual Reasoning, Qualitative: Philosophical Aspects” in James Wright (ed) International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd Edition, Elsevier, International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioural Sciences, 2nd edition, Volume 5, 2015, 87-94.
  6. “Omissions, Enablers and Causation”, (with Nikos Biesketzis), Defkalion, forthcoming (in Greek).
  7. ‘Y a-t-il des lois dans la nature ? Une réponse empiriste’, In: Feltz, B., Frogneux, N., et Leyens, St., dir. de publication, La nature en éclats. Les défis d'un nouveau rapport à la nature, Academia, Louvain-la-Neuve, 2015.
  8. ‘Conventions and Relations in Poincaré's Philosophy of Science’. Methode-Analytic Perspectives 3: 98-140 (2014).
  9. “Regularities, Natural Patterns and Laws of Nature’, Theoria, 79, 9-27 (2014).
  10. Hilary Putnam, Philosophy in an Age of Science: Physics, Mathematics and Skepticism, Mario de Caro and David Macarthur (eds.), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 24 September 2012.
  11. “The View from Within and the View from Above: Looking at van Fraassen’s Perrin” in GONZALEZ, W. J. (ed), Representation and Models in Science: Bas van Fraassen's Approach, Synthese Library, Springer, Dordrecht, 143-166, 2014.
  12. Semirealism or Neo-Aristotelianism?, Erkenntnis, 78: 29-38, 2013
  13. Review of Henk W. de Regt, Sabina Leonelli, and Kai Eigner (eds.), Scientific Understanding: Philosophical Perspectives, (with Antigone Nounou), Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 43: 72-74, 2012
  14. Book Notice of Steven Gimbel (ed.): Exploring the scientific method: Cases and questions, (Book Notice), Metascience, 21: 505-506, 2012
  15. What is General Philosophy of Science? Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 43: 93–103, 2012
  16. ‘Causal-descriptivism and the reference of theoretical terms’ in Athanassios Raftopoulos & Peter Machamer (eds) Perception, Realism and the Problem of Reference, Cambridge University Press, pp. 212-238, 2012
  17. ‘Anti-nominalistic Scientific Realism: A Defence’, in Alexander Bird, Brian Ellis, and Howard Sankey (eds) Properties, Powers and Structures: Issues in the Metaphysics of Realism, Routledge pp. 53-69, 2012
  18. ‘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, pp.169-185, 2012
  19. ‘One Cannot be Just a Little Bit Realist: Putnam and van Fraassen’ in James Robert Brown (ed.) Philosophy of Science: The Key Thinkers, Continuum, pp.188-212, 2012
  20. ‘Reason and Science’ in Cristina Amoretti & Nicla Vassallo (eds) Reason and Rationality, Ontos Verlag, 2012
  21. ‘Moving Molecules Above the Scientific Horizon: On Perrin’s Case for Realism’ Journal for General Philosophy of Science, December 2011
  22. ‘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, pp.115-148, 2011
  23. ‘Making Contact with Molecules: On Perrin and Achinstein’ Philosophy of Science Matters: the Philosophy of Peter Achinstein, Gregory J Morgan (ed.) Oxford University Press, pp. 177-190, 2011
  24. ‘Scientific Realism with a Humean Face’ in Juha Saatsi & Steven French (eds) The Continuum Companion to Philosophy of Science, Continuum, pp. 75-95, 2011
  25. ‘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, pp. 23-35, Springer 2011
  26. ‘The Idea of Mechanism’ in Phyllis McKay, Federica Russo & Jon Williamson (eds) Causality in the Sciences, Oxford University Press, pp.771-788, 2011
  27. ‘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, pp.220-241, 2011 
  28. ‘Choosing the Realist Framework’, Synthese, 190: 301-316, 2011 
  29. ‘Living with the Abstract: Realism and Models’, Synthese 190: 3-17, 2011 
  30. ‘Is the History of Science the Wasteland of False Theories?’ in Adapting Historical Knowledge Production to the Classroom, P. V. Kokkotas et al. (eds) Rotterdam & Boston: Sense Publishers, pp.17-36, 2011
  31. ‘On Reichenbach’s Argument for Scientific Realism’ Synthese 181: 23-40, 2011
  32. Book Notice of Michael Dummett: The nature and future of philosophy (Book Notice) Metascience, 20: 3, 2011.
  33. Book Notice of Friedrich Stadler (ed.): The present situation in the philosophy of science (Book Notice), Metascience, 20: 415-6, 2011
  34. ‘Philosophy of Science: 5 Answers’ in R. Rosengberg (ed.) Philosophy of Science: 5 Questions, Automatic Press/VIP, pp. 169-180, 2010
  35. ‘Scientific Realism: Between Platonism and Nominalism’, Philosophy of Science 77: 947-958, 2010 
  36. ‘Grapsing at Realist Straws’, Critical Notice of of Kyle Stanford: Exceeding Our Grasp, Metascience 18: 363-370, 2009
  37. ‘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, pp. 131-151, 2009
  38. ‘The A Priori: Between Conventions and Implicit Definitions, (with Demetra Christopoulou) in The A Priori and its Role in Philosophy, Nikola Kompa, Christian Nimtz, Christian Suhm (eds) Mentis, pp.205-220, 2009
  39. ‘Regularity Theories’ in Oxford Handbook of Causation, Helen Beebee, Peter Menzies & Chris Hitchcock (eds) Oxford University Press, pp.131-157, 2009
  40. Review of Anjan Chakravartty: A Metaphysics for Scientific Realism, (with Demetris Papayannakos) ISIS 100, 204-5, 2009
  41. Review of Howard Sankey: Scientific Realism and the Rationality of Science, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 87: 681-684, 2009
  42. ‘Carnap and Incommensurability’ Philosophical Inquiry, 30: 135-156, 2008
  43. ‘Between Realism and Empiricism: The Adventures of Structuralism in the Philosophy of Science’ in Demetra Sfendoni-Mentzou (ed.) Philosophy of the Sciences, Ziti Publishers, 99-118, (in Greek) 2008
  44. ‘Philosophy of Science’ in The Routledge Companion to the 20th Century Philosophy, Dermot Moran (eds), Routledge, pp. 618-657, 2008
  45. ‘The Concept of a Number and the Number of a Concept: An Analysis of the Grundlagen of Gottlob Frege’ (with Demetra Christopoulou) Noesis 3: 79-113 (in Greek) 2008 
  46. ‘Thoughts on Concepts: On Fodor’s Approach’ (with Aspassia Kanelou) Noesis 3: 45-78, (in Greek) 2008 
  47. ‘Cartwright’s Realist Toil: From Entities to Capacities’, in Cartwright’s Philosophy of Science, (eds. Stephan Hartman, Carl Hoefer & Luc Bovens), Routledge, pp.167-194, 2008
  48. ‘Probabilistic Causation: Contextual Unanimity and Simpson’s paradoxes’ (with Nikos Bisketzis) Nefsis 16: 16-33 (in Greek) 2008
  49. Review of Derek Turner Making Prehistory: Historical Science and the Scientific Realism Debate, Notre Dame Review of Books, 2008
  50. ‘What is Causation?’ in Beena Choksi and Chitra Natarajan (eds.) The epiSTEME Reviews: Research trends in Science, Technology and Mathematics Education, Macmillan India Ltd, pp.11-34, 2007
  51. ‘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
  52. ‘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. Elsevier BV, pp.97-173, 2007
  53. ‘Putting a Bridle on Irrationality: An Appraisal of Van Fraassen’s New Epistemology’, in Bradley Monton (ed.) Images of Empiricism, Oxford University Press, pp.134-164, 2007
  54. ‘Pierre Duhem’s Philosophy of Science: Between Science and Metaphysics’,  (with Milena Ivanova), Appendix in Pierre Duhem: ΣΩΖΕΙΝ ΤΑ ΦΑΙΝΟΜΕΝΑ, Greek Translation, Nefeli Publishers, (in Greek) 2007
  55. ‘Reflections on Conceptual Change’ in Stella Vosniadou, Aristides Baltas and Xenia Vamvakoussi (eds) Reframing the Conceptual Change Approach in Learning and Instruction, Elsevier Ltd, pp.83-87, 2007
  56. ‘Realism’, ‘Causal Law’, ‘Inference’, ‘Reference’, ‘Nicod’s Criterion’, ‘Philosophy of Science’ in A Dictionary of Critical Realism, Mervyn Hartwig (ed.), Routledge, 2007
  57. ‘Causal Explanation and Manipulation’ in Johannes Person & Petri Ylikoski (eds) Rethinking Explanation, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 252. Springer, pp. 97-112, 2007
  58. ‘The Fine Structure of Inference to the Best Explanation’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 74: 441-448, 2007
  59. ‘The Door to Sellars’, Review of Willem A. de Vries, Wilfrid Sellars (with Andreas Karitzis), Metascience 16: 555-559, 2007
  60. Review of Yemina Ben-Menahem Conventionalism: From Poincaré to Quine. Philosophy in Review 27: 243-245, 2007
  61. ‘The Structure, the Whole Structure and Nothing but the Structure?’, Philosophy of Science 73: 560–570, 2006
  62. ‘What do powers do when they are not manifested?’ Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 72: 135-156, 2006
  63. ‘Critical Notice: Laws in Nature’, Metascience 15: 437-469, 2006
  64. ‘Thinking About the Ultimate Argument for Realism’, in Rationality & Reality, (eds Colin Cheyne & John Worrall), Springer, pp. 133-156, 2006
  65. ‘Philosophy of science, history of’ in Borchert, Donald, ed. Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd edition. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, (volume 7, pp. 503-516), 2006
  66. ‘Underdetermination Thesis, Duhem-Quine Thesis’ in Borchert, Donald, ed. Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd edition. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, (volume 9, pp. 575-578), 2006
  67. ‘Scientific Realism’ in Borchert, Donald, ed. Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd edition. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, (volume 8, pp. 688-694), 2006
  68. ‘Ramsey’s Ramsey-sentences’, in Cambridge and Vienna: Frank P Ramsey and the Vienna Circle (Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook 12), (ed. Maria Carla Galavotti), Springer, pp. 67-90, 2006
  69. ‘Scientific Realism and Metaphysics’, Ratio 18: 385-404, 2005
  70. ‘Causation’, Archives of Greek Medicine 22: 594-605 (in Greek) 2005
  71. ‘Neo-Logicism: Problems and Prospects’ (with Demetra Christopoulou) Nefsis 14: 152-173 (in Greek), 2005
  72. ‘Reductivism and the Problem of Mental Causation’, Noesis 1: 39-58 (in Greek), 2005
  73. Review of Norris, Christopher, Philosophy of Language and the Challenge to Scientific Realism, Journal of Critical Realism 4: 255-261, 2005
  74. ‘Truth as a Value’ in Universal Values (Loucas G. Christophorou & George Contopoulos eds.) Academy of Athens, Athens, pp. 143-146, 2004
  75. ‘Modesty and Presumptuousness: How Science Tracks Truth’ in Philosophy of Science in the Twentieth Century, National Research Foundation, pp.121-133, (in Greek) 2004 
  76. ‘Causality’, In New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, Maryanne Cline Horowitz, (ed.), Charles Scribner’s Sons, pp. 272-280, 2004
  77. ‘A Glimpse of the Secret Connexion: Harmonising Mechanisms with Counterfactuals’, Perspectives on Science 12: 288-319, 2004
  78. ‘Tracking the Real: Through Thick and Thin’, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 55: 393-409, 2004
  79. ‘Inference to the Best Explanation and Bayesianism’ in F. Stadler (ed.) Induction and Deduction in the Sciences, Kluwer, pp.83-91, 2004
  80. Review of Musgrave, A. Essays on realism and rationalism, Philosophy of the Social Sciences 34: 440-4, 2004
  81. Review of Achinstein, P. The Book of Evidence, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 68: 740-3, 2004
  82. ‘Scientific Realism’ in Philosophy of Science Today, (eds P. Clark & C. Hawley) Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp.59-82, 2003
  83. ‘Theories of Scientific Method: Models for the Physico-Mathematical Sciences’ (with Nancy Cartwright and Hasok Chang), in The Cambridge History of Science, Volume 5, The Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences, (ed. M. J. Nye), Cambridge University Press, pp.21-35, 2003
  84. ‘Simply the Best: A Case for Abduction’ in Computational Logic: From Logic Programming into the Future, LNAI 2408, (eds A. C. Kakas & F. Sadri), Berlin-Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, pp.605-25, 2002
  85. ‘Salt does dissolve in water, but not necessarily’, Analysis 62: 255-7, 2002
  86. ‘What is the Positive Content of Negative Realism?;’ Nefsis 11: 85-95, (in Greek) 2002
  87. Review of Solomon, M. Social Empiricism, Philosophy of Science 69: 545-7, 2002
  88. Review of Niiniluoto, I. Critical Scientific Realism, MIND 111: 454-8, 2002
  89. Review of Morrison, M & Morgan, M. (eds) Models as Mediators, Economics and Philosophy 17: 288-94 (with Francesco Guala), 2002
  90. ‘Predictive Similarity and the Success of Science: A Reply to Stanford’ Philosophy of Science 68: 346-55, 2001
  91. ‘Is Structural Realism Possible?’ Philosophy of Science 68: S13-24, 2001
  92. ‘Author’s Response’ Metascience 10: 366-70, 2001
  93. Review of Kukla, A. Studies in Scientific Realism, The Foundations of Chemistry 3: 79-86, 2001
  94. Review of Giere, R. Science without Laws, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 15: 102-5, 2001
  95. ‘The Present State of the Scientific Realism Debate’ The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 51: 705-28, 2000
  96. ‘Abduction: Between Conceptual Richness and Computational Complexity’ in Abduction and Induction: Essays in their Relation and Integration, (Applied Logic Series, Vol. 18), (eds. A. C. Kakas and P. Flach), Kluwer, pp.59-74, 2000
  97. ‘An Introduction to Carnap’s ‘Theoretical Concepts in Science’” (with Carnap’s unpublished lecture “Theoretical Concepts in Science”) Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 31: 151-72, 2000
  98. ‘Empiricism vs Scientific Realism: Belief in Truth Matters’, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 14: 57-75, 2000
  99. ‘Carnap, the Ramsey-Sentence and Realistic Empiricism’ Erkenntnis 52: 253-79, 2000
  100. Review of Wilson, F. The Logic and Methodology of Science in Early Modern Thought, Philosophy in Review 20: 447-9, 2000
  101. Richardson, A. Carnap’s Construction of the World, MIND 109: 986-90, 2000
  102. ‘World According to Flux of Tropes’ The Times Higher Education Supplement, 6 October 2000, 29
  103. Review of Gower, B. Theories of Scientific Method, Ratio 12: 310-16, 1999
  104. ‘True Stories’, Nature 392: 35-6, 1998
  105. ‘Naturalism Without Truth?’ Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 28: 699-713, 1997
  106. ‘Kitcher on Reference’ International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 11: 259-72, 1997
  107. ‘How Not to Defend Constructive Empiricism: A Rejoinder’ The Philosophical Quarterly 47: 369-72, 1997
  108. ‘Scientific Realism and the “Pessimistic Induction”’ Philosophy of Science 63: S306-14, 1996
  109. ‘On van Fraassen’s Critique of Abductive Reasoning’ The Philosophical Quarterly 46: 31-47, 1996. Translation into Portuguese ‘Sobre a Critica de van Fraassen ao Raciocinio Abdutivo’ Crtica-Revista de Filosofia 6, pp.35-62, 2000
  110. ‘Poincaré’s Conception of Mechanical Explanation’ in Henri Poincarè: Science and Philosophy, (eds. Jean-Louis Greffe, Gerhard Heinzmann & Kuno Lorenz), Berlin: Academie Verlag & Paris: Albert Blanchard, pp.177-91, 1996
  111. ‘Rights from Wrongs’, Nature 383: 682, 1996
  112. Review of Marsonet, M.: Language, Science and Reality, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 47: 663-8, 1996
  113. ‘Is Structural Realism the Best of Both Worlds?’ Dialectica 49: 15-46, 1995
  114. ‘The Cognitive Interplay Between Theories and Models: The Case of 19th Century Optics’, in Theories and Models in Scientific Processes, Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 44, (eds W. E. Herfel, W. Krajewski, I. Niiniluoto & R. Wojcicki), pp.105-33, 1995
  115. Review of Aronson J., Harré R., & Way E. C.: Realism Rescued International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 9: 179-83, 1995
  116. Review of Roger Trigg: Rationality and Science, MIND 104: 674-9, 1995
  117. Review of Karl Popper: The Myth of the Framework Philosophy in Review 15: 200-2, 1995
  118. ‘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: 159-90, 1994
  119. Paul Hoyningen-Huene: Reconstructing Scientific Revolutions and Paul Horwich (ed.): World Changes, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 45: 923-6 1994
  120. ‘Conceptions and Misconceptions of Ether’ in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on the Physical Interpretations of Relativity Theory, (ed. M. C. Duffy) Imperial College, London, pp.544-56, 1992


B.    Interviews and other philosophical pieces
1. 'Of Realist Turns: A Conversation with Stathis Psillos (interview with Fabio Gironi)Speculations: 367-427 (2012)
2. ‘Philosophy of Science in Greece: Past, Present and Future’, in EPSA Newsletter, Vol. 1 Issue 2, September 2011, pp. 3-7, 2011
3. ‘Interview by Federica Russo’, Reasoner, Volume 5, no. 7, pp. 102-106 July 2011
4. Interview by Richard Marshall 3:AM Magazine, philosophy of science