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Andersen, Holly (2011) The Case of Regularity in Mechanistic Causal Explanation. In: [2011] Mechanisms: Les Mécaniciens: Salon des Refusés (Pittsburgh; 9 April 2011).

Arroyo-Santos, Alfonso and Olson, Mark E. (2011) Metaphors as surrogate variables. The case of adaptive radiation. [Preprint]

Arroyo-Santos, Alfonso and Olson, Mark E. and Vergara-Silva, Francisco (2011) Practice-oriented controversies and borrowed epistemic support in current evolutionary biology: phylogeography as a case study. [Preprint]

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Ballinger, Clint (2008) Classifying Contingency in the Social Sciences: Diachronic, Synchronic, and Deterministic Contingency. [Preprint]

Batterman, Robert (2009) Emergence, Singularities, and Symmetry Breaking. [Preprint]

Batterman, Robert (2004) Response to Belot's "Whose Devil? Which Details?". [Preprint]

Batterman, Robert W. (2011) The Tyranny of Scales. [Preprint]

Bennett, Andrew (2010) Process Tracing and Causal Inference. In: [2011] Reasoning with Cases in the Social Sciences (Pittsburgh; 11-12 November 2011).

Betz, Gregor (2011) Justifying Inference to the Best Explanation as a Practical Meta-Syllogism on Dialectical Structures. [Preprint]

Bevers, Brett (2011) Can Many-Worlds Survive a Quantum Doomsday. [Preprint]

Björnsson, Gunnar and Persson, Karl (2009) Judgments of moral responsibility – a unified account. In: [2009] Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 35th Annual Meeting (Bloomington, IN; June 12-14).

Bod, Rens (2004) Explaining New Phenomena in Terms of Previous Phenomena. [Preprint]

Bod, Rens (2004) From Theory to Technology: Rules versus Exemplars. In: [2004] Philosophy of Science Assoc. 19th Biennial Meeting - PSA2004: Contributed Papers (Austin, TX; 2004) > PSA 2004 Workshops. (Unpublished)

Bogen, Jim (2002) Analyzing Causality: The opposite of Counterfactual is Factual. UNSPECIFIED. (Unpublished)

Bogen, Jim (2006) Causally Productive Activities. [Preprint]

Bogen, Jim (2001) What We Talk About When We Talk About Causality. [Preprint]

Bogen, Jim and Machamer, Peter (2010) Mechanistic Information and Causal Continuity. [Preprint]

Brigandt, Ingo (2011) Explanation in Biology: Reduction, Pluralism, and Explanatory Aims. [Preprint]

Brigandt, Ingo (2009) Scientific Reasoning Is Material Inference: Combining Confirmation, Discovery, and Explanation. [Preprint]

Brown, Harvey R. and Pooley, Oliver (2004) Minkowski space-time: a glorious non-entity. [Preprint]

Brown, Harvey R. and Pooley, Oliver (1999) The origin of the spacetime metric: Bell's `Lorentzian pedagogy' and its significance in general relativity. [Preprint]

Burian, Richard (2008) Selection Does Not Operate Primarily on Genes. [Preprint]

Butterfield, Jeremy (2010) Emergence, Reduction and Supervenience: a Varied Landscape. [Preprint]

Butterfield, Jeremy (2010) Less is Different: Emergence and Reduction Reconciled. [Preprint]

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Callender, Craig (2005) An Answer in Search of a Question: 'Proofs' of the Tri-Dimensionality of Space. [Preprint]

Callender, Craig (2004) Measures, Explanations and the Past: Should 'Special' Initial Conditions be Explained? [Preprint]

Catton, Philip (2001) The Most Measured Understanding of Spacetime. [Preprint]

Chart, David (2001) Inference to the Best Explanation, Bayesianism, and Feminist Bank Tellers. [Preprint]

Chemero, Tony and Silberstein, Michael (2007) After the Philosophy of Mind: Replacing Scholasticism with Science. [Preprint]

Clifton, Rob (1998) Scientific Explanation in Quantum Theory. [Preprint]

Clifton, Rob (2001) The Subtleties of Entanglement and its Role in Quantum Information Theory. [Preprint]

Clifton, Rob and Pope, Damian (2001) On the Nonlocality of the Quantum Channel in the Standard Teleportation Protocol. [Preprint]

Cohnitz, Daniel (2002) Explanations are like salted peanuts. Why you can't cut the route toward further reduction. Mentis.

Conference, Synopsis (2007) Synopsis: Causality, Mechanisms, and Psychology. In: [2007] Workshop: Causality, Mechanisms, and Psychology (Pittsburgh, PA; 24 February, 2007).

Craig, David (2007) A Theory of Theories. In: [2007] LSE-Pitt Conference: Confirmation, Induction and Science (London, 8 - 10 March, 2007).

Cuffaro, Michael (2010) The Kantian framework of complementarity. [Published Article]

Céspedes, Esteban (2011) Causes and Refutation. [Preprint]

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Davies, E Brian (2006) Scientific Understanding. [Preprint]

De Regt, Henk and Dieks, Dennis (2002) A Contextual Approach to Scientific Understanding. UNSPECIFIED. (Unpublished)

Dorato, Mauro and Felline, Laura (2009) Scientific Explanation and Scientific Structuralism. [Preprint]

Dorato, Mauro and Felline, Laura (2010) Scientific Explanation and Scientific Structuralism. [Preprint]

Ducheyne, Steffen (2007) The General Scholium: Some Notes on Newton's Published and Unpublished Endeavours. [Preprint]

Ducheyne, Steffen (2005) Mathematical Models in Newton’s Principia: A New View of the “Newtonian Style”. [Preprint]

Ducheyne, Steffen (2004) Newton's Idea and Practice of Unification. [Preprint]

Ducheyne, Steffen (2010) The Status of Hypothesis and Theory. [Preprint]

Ducheyne, Steffen (2009) Understanding (in) Newton’s Argument for Universal Gravitation. [Preprint]

de Regt, Henk and Dieks, Dennis (2003) A Contextual Approach to Scientific Understanding. [Preprint]

de Regt, Henk W. (2006) Modelling Molecules: Beyond the Epistemic-Pragmatic Dichotomy. In: [2006] Philosophy of Science Assoc. 20th Biennial Mtg (Vancouver) > PSA 2006 Contributed Papers.

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Faye, Jan (2007) Interpretation in the Natural Sciences. In: [2007] EPSA07: 1st Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association (Madrid, 15-17 November, 2007).

Faye, Jan (2004) The Pragmatic-Rhetorical Theory of Explanation. [Preprint]

Felline, Laura (2010) Scientific Explanation between Principle and Constructive Theories. [Preprint]

Fenton, Andrew (2008) Re-conceiving nonhuman animal knowledge through contemporary primate cognitive studies. In: [2008] Biological Explanations of Behavior: Philosophical Perspectives (Hannover, Germany; 12-15 June, 2008).

Forge, John (2001) Reflections on Structuralism and Scientific Explanation. [Preprint]

Franceschi, Paul (2005) A Dichotomic Analysis of the Surprise Examination Paradox. UNSPECIFIED.

Franceschi, Paul (2007) Le paradoxe des deux enveloppes et le choix de l'indifférence. [Preprint]

Friederich, Simon (2012) In defence of non-ontic accounts of quantum states. [Preprint]

Frost-Arnold, Greg (2008) The Limits of Scientific Explanation and the No-Miracles Argument. In: [2008] Philosophy of Science Assoc. 21st Biennial Mtg (Pittsburgh, PA) > PSA 2008 Contributed Papers.

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Glennan, Stuart (2007) Mechanisms, Causes and the Layered Model of the World. [Preprint]

Goodwin, William (2009) SUSTAINING A CONTROVERSY: THE NON-CLASSICAL ION DEBATE. In: [2009] International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry Annual Meeting (Philadelphia, August 13-15, 2009).

Goodwin, William (2008) Visual Representations in Science. [Preprint]

Goodwin, William Mark (2006) Diagrams and Explanation in Organic Chemistry. [Preprint]

Goodwin, William Mark (2006) Visual Representations in Science. In: [2006] Philosophy of Science Assoc. 20th Biennial Mtg (Vancouver) > PSA 2006 Contributed Papers.

Green, Christopher D. (1998) Are Connectionist Models Theories of Cognition? [Preprint]

Green, Christopher D. and Vervaeke, John (1996) What Kind of Explanation, If Any, Is a Connectionist Net? [Preprint]

Griesel, Carsten (2008) The Type-Token Distinction and the Mind and Brain Sciences. In: [2008] Reduction and the Special Sciences (Tilburg, April 10-12, 2008).

Grüne-Yanoff, Till (2007) The Explanatory Potential of Artificial Societies. [Preprint]

Gurova, Lilia (2010) Fodor vs. Darwin: A Methodological Follow-Up. [Preprint]

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Hagar, Amit (2007) Length Matters (I) - The Einstein--Swann Correspondence and the Constructive Approach to the Special Theory of Relativity. In: [2007] &HPS1: Integrated History and Philosophy of Science 1.

Hagar, Amit (2007) Length Matters (I): The Einstein-Swann Correspondence and the Constructive Approach to STR. In: [2007] &HPS1: Integrated History and Philosophy of Science 1.

Hagar, Amit and Hemmo, Meir (2005) Explaining the Unobserved: Why Quantum Mechanics Is Not only About Information. [Preprint]

Hardy-Vallée, Benoit (2007) Decision-Making: A Neuroeconomic Perspective. [Preprint]

Hattiangadi, Jagdish (2006) On the True Method of Induction or Investigative Induction: Real But Invisible. In: [2007] LSE-Pitt Conference: Confirmation, Induction and Science (London, 8 - 10 March, 2007).

Haug, Matthew C. (2010) Abstraction and Explanatory Relevance, or Why Do the Special Sciences Exist? In: [2010] Philosophy of Science Assoc. 22nd Biennial Mtg (Montréal, QC) > PSA 2010 Contributed Papers.

Healey, Richard (2011) How Quantum Theory Helps us Explain. [Preprint]

Healey, Richard (2011) How to Use Quantum Theory Locally to Explain "Non-local" Correlations. [Preprint]

Hemmo, Meir and Shenker, Orly (2010) Probability and Typicality in Deterministic Physics. [Preprint]

Hindriks, Frank (2007) Concretization, Explanation, and Mechanisms. In: [2007] Models and Simulations 2 (Tilburg, NL).

hunean, philippe (2006) Naturalising purpose: From comparative anatomy to the ‘adventures of reason’. [Preprint]

huneman, philippe (2006) Evolutionary theory in philosophical focus. [Preprint]

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Imbert, Cyrille (2006) Can simulations be explanatory an why do they seem not to be? In: [2006] Models and Simulations (Paris, 2006).

Instructions, Submission (2009) Submission instructions for [2009] Evidence, Science, and Public Policy (Sydney, March 26-28). In: [2009] Evidence, Science, and Public Policy (Sydney, March 26-28).

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Jackson, John (2008) Definitional Argument in Evolutionary Psychology and Cultural Anthropology. In: [2008] Biological Explanations of Behavior: Philosophical Perspectives (Hannover, Germany; 12-15 June, 2008).

Jan, Faye (2009) Explanation and Interpretation in the Sciences of Man. [Preprint]

Johnson, Monte and Wilson, Catherine (2006) Lucretius and the History of Science. [Preprint]

Jones, Nicholaos and Wolkenhauer, Olaf (2012) Diagrams as Locality Aids for Explanation and Model Construction in Cell Biology. [Preprint]

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Kallfelz, William (2005) Contracting Batterman's Asymptotic 'No-Man's Land:' Reduction Rejoins Explanation. UNSPECIFIED. (Unpublished)

Kuehne, Ulrich J. (1997) Gedankenexperiment und Erklärung / Thought Experiment and Scientific Explanation. UNSPECIFIED.

Kuehne, Ulrich J. (1997) Wie erklärt man mit unsichtbaren Händen? / How Can Invisible Hands Explain? UNSPECIFIED.

Kuhlmann, Meinard (2006) How Do Microscopic Models of Financial Markets Explain? In: [2006] Models and Simulations (Paris, 2006). (Unpublished)

Kuhlmann, Meinard (2011) Mechanisms in Dynamically Complex Systems. [Preprint]

Kuorikoski, Jaakko (2009) Simulation and the Sense of Understanding. In: [2009] Models and Simulations 3 (Charlottesville, Virginia; March 5-7, 2009).

Kuorikoski, Jaakko (2008) Varieties of Modularity for Causal and Constitutive Explanations. In: [2008] Philosophy of Science Assoc. 21st Biennial Mtg (Pittsburgh, PA) > PSA 2008 Contributed Papers.

koepke, william (2002) On the Coupling Constants of the Linear Approximation of Gravity and its Generalization. [Preprint]

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List, Christian and Menzies, Peter (2008) Non-Reductive Physicalism and the Limits of the Exclusion Principle. [Preprint]

Liu, Chuang (2000) Coordination of Space and Unity of Science. UNSPECIFIED. (Unpublished)

Liu, Chuang and Emch, Gerard G. (2004) Explaining Quantum Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking. [Preprint]

Longy, Françoise (2007) Artifacts and Organisms: A Case for a New Etiological Theory of Functions. [Preprint]

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MACHAMER, PETER (2009) Explaining Mechanisms. [Preprint]

Marcus, Russell (2007) Intrinsic Explanation and Field's Dispensabilist Strategy. In: [2008] Reduction and the Special Sciences (Tilburg, April 10-12, 2008).

Mathen, Jolly (2005) On the Inherent Incompleteness of Scientific Theories. UNSPECIFIED. (Unpublished)

Maxwell, Nicholas (2004) Does Probabilism Solve the Great Quantum Mystery? [Preprint]

Maxwell, Nicholas (2007) Is the Quantum World Composed of Propensitons? [Preprint]

Maxwell, Nicholas (2002) The Need for a Revolution in the Philosophy of Science. UNSPECIFIED.

Maxwell, Nicholas (2004) Non-Empirical Requirements Scientific Theories Must Satisfy: Simplicity, Unification, Explanation, Beauty. [Preprint]

Maxwell, Nicholas (2000) SIMPLICITY. [Preprint]

Maxwell, Nicholas (2003) Three Philosophical Problems about Consciousness and their Possible Resolution. [Preprint]

Menon, Tarun and Callender, Craig (2011) Turn and Face the Strange... Ch-ch-changes: Philosophical Questions Raised by Phase Transitions. [Preprint]

Mizrahi, Moti (2011) Why the Ultimate Argument for Scientific Realism Ultimately Fails. [Preprint]

Morita, Kunihisa (2009) A Role of Models in Scientific Explanation. In: [2009] Metaphysics of Science (Melbourne, July 2-5, 2009).

Mosterin, Jesus (2004) Anthropic Explanations in Cosmology. [Preprint]

Muller, Herbert FJ (2003) Effect of Working Ontology on Some Conceptual Puzzles. [Preprint]

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Northcott, Robert (2008) Innateness and Science. In: [2008] Biological Explanations of Behavior: Philosophical Perspectives (Hannover, Germany; 12-15 June, 2008).

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Persson, Johannes (2007) Mechanism-as-activity and the threat of polygenic effects. In: [2007] EPSA07: 1st Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association (Madrid, 15-17 November, 2007).

Persson, Johannes (2009) Three conceptions of explaining how possibly—and one reductive account. In: [2009] EPSA09: 2nd Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association (Amsterdam, 21-24 October, 2009) > EPSA 2009 Contributed Papers.

Persson, Johannes (2009) Three conceptions of explaining how possibly—and one reductive account. In: [2009] EPSA09: 2nd Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association (Amsterdam, 21-24 October, 2009) > EPSA 2009 Contributed Papers.

Pooley, Oliver (2004) Comments on Sklar's ``Barbour's Relationist Metric of Time''. UNSPECIFIED.

Potochnik, Angela (2006) Optimality Modeling and Explanatory Generality. In: [2006] Philosophy of Science Assoc. 20th Biennial Mtg (Vancouver) > PSA 2006 Contributed Papers.

Páez, Andrés (2006) The Epistemic Value of Explanation. In: [2006] Philosophy of Science Assoc. 20th Biennial Mtg (Vancouver) > PSA 2006 Contributed Papers.

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Reydon, Thomas (2008) How to Fix Kind Membership: A Problem for HPC-Theory and a Solution. In: [2008] Philosophy of Science Assoc. 21st Biennial Mtg (Pittsburgh, PA) > PSA 2008 Contributed Papers.

Rickles, Dean (2010) Mirror Symmetry and Other Miracles in Superstring Theory. [Preprint]

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Sapienza, Carmen (2008) Selection Does Operate Primarily on Genes: In Defense of the Gene as the Unit of Selection. [Preprint]

Saunders, Simon (2004) Complementarity and Scientific Rationality. [Preprint]

Schupbach, Jonah N. (2010) Comparing Probabilistic Measures of Explanatory Power. In: [2010] The Future of Philosophy of Science (Tilburg, NL; April 14-16, 2010).

Schupbach, Jonah N. and Sprenger, Jan (2010) The Logic of Explanatory Power. [Preprint]

Shapiro, Lawrence (2004) Can Psychology Be A Unified Science? In: [2004] Philosophy of Science Assoc. 19th Biennial Meeting - PSA2004: Contributed Papers (Austin, TX; 2004) > PSA 2004 Contributed Papers. (Unpublished)

Shenker, Orly R. (2000) Interventionism in Statistical Mechanics: Some Philosophical Remarks. [Preprint]

Sirtes, Daniel (2010) A Pragmatic-Ontic Account of Mechanistic Explanation. [Preprint]

Skipper, Robert and Millstein, Roberta (2004) Thinking About Evolutionary Mechanisms: Natural Selection. [Preprint]

Slutsky, David (2010) Confusion and dependence in uses of history. [Published Article]

Stoica, Ovidiu Cristinel (2008) World Theory. [Preprint]

Sustar, Predrag (2006) Neo-Functional Analysis: Phylogenetical Restrictions on Causal Role Functions. In: [2006] Philosophy of Science Assoc. 20th Biennial Mtg (Vancouver) > PSA 2006 Contributed Papers.

Székely, Gergely (2008) On Why-Questions in Physics. [Preprint]

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Tabery, James (2008) Difference Mechanisms. In: [2008] Biological Explanations of Behavior: Philosophical Perspectives (Hannover, Germany; 12-15 June, 2008).

Tabery, James (2003) Synthesizing Activities and Interactions in the Concept of a Mechanism. [Preprint]

Tamir, Michael (2011) Proving the Principle: Taking Geodesic Dynamics too Seriously in Einstein's Theory. [Preprint]

Tamir, Michael (2011) Proving the Principle: Taking Geodesic Dynamics too Seriously in Einstein's Theory. [Published Article]

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Van Camp, Wesley (2011) On Kinematic vs. Dynamic Approaches to Special Relativity. In: [2010] Philosophy of Science Assoc. 22nd Biennial Mtg (Montréal, QC) > PSA 2010 Contributed Papers.

Vromen, Jack, J. (2008) MICRO-FOUNDATIONS IN STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT: SQUARING COLEMAN’S DIAGRAM. In: [2008] Reduction and the Special Sciences (Tilburg, April 10-12, 2008).

van Riel, Raphael (2008) From Water to H2O – What Reduction is About. In: [2008] Reduction and the Special Sciences (Tilburg, April 10-12, 2008).

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Walker, Mark and Cirkovic, Milan (2003) Anthropic Reasoning and the Contemporary Design Argument in Astrophysics: A Reply to Robert Klee. [Preprint]

Waskan, Jonathan (2011) Intelligibility and the CAPE: Combatting Anti-Psychologism about Explanation. In: [2011] Epistemology of Modeling & Simulation: Building Research Bridges between the Philosophical and Modeling Communities (Pittsburgh; 1-3 April 2011).

Waskan, Jonathan (2011) Intelligibility and the CAPE: Combatting Anti-psychologism about Explanation. In: [2011] Mechanisms: Les Mécaniciens: Salon des Refusés (Pittsburgh; 9 April 2011).

Wayne, Andrew (2010) Emergence and Singular Limits. [Preprint]

Wayne, Andrew (2009) Emergence and Singular Limits. UNSPECIFIED.

Wayne, Andrew (2010) Expanding the Scope of Explanatory Idealization. In: [2010] Philosophy of Science Assoc. 22nd Biennial Mtg (Montréal, QC) > PSA 2010 Contributed Papers.

Weatherall, James Owen (2011) On (Some) Explanations in Physics. [Preprint]

Weber, Erik and De Vreese, Leen and Van Bouwel, Jeroen (2011) How to Study Scientific Explanation? In: [2011] 3rd Biennial Conference of the Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (June 22-24, 2011; Exeter, UK).

Weber, Erik and Van Bouwel, Jeroen and Lefevere, Merel (2010) The Role of Unification in Explanations of Facts. In: [2009] EPSA09: 2nd Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association (Amsterdam, 21-24 October, 2009) > EPSA 2009 Contributed Papers.

Weisberg, Michael (2002) Qualitative Theory and Chemical Explanation. [Preprint]

Whitcomb, Dennis (2004) Kitcher, Correspondence, and Success. UNSPECIFIED. (Unpublished)

Woodward, James (2011) Laws, Causes, and Invariance. [Preprint]

Woodward, James (2008) Mental Causation and Neural Mechanisms. [Preprint]

Wronski, Leszek (2010) The Common Cause Principle. Explanation via Screening off. [Preprint]

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Xavier, de Donato-Rodríguez and Jesús, Zamora-Bonilla (2009) EXPLANATION AND MODELIZATION IN A COMPREHENSIVE INFERENTIAL ACCOUNT. In: [2009] EPSA09: 2nd Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association (Amsterdam, 21-24 October, 2009) > EPSA 2009 Contributed Papers.

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