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Adam, Matthias (2005) Integrating research and development: the emergence of rational drug design in the pharmaceutical industry. [Preprint]

Adam, Matthias (2009) Multi-level complexities in technological development: Competing strategies for drug discovery. [Preprint]

Afriat, Alexander (2008) How Weyl stumbled across electricity while pursuing mathematical justice. [Preprint]

Afriat, Alexander (2007) A priori prejudice in Weyl's unintended unification of gravitation and electricity. [Preprint]

Afriat, Alexander (2007) A priori prejudice in Weyl's unintended unification of gravitation and electricity. [Preprint]

Atkinson, David (2001) Experiments and Thought Experiments in Natural Science. [Preprint]

Atmanspacher, Harald and Primas, Hans (1995) The Hidden Side of Wolfgang Pauli. [Preprint]

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Baily, Charles (2008) Atomic Modeling in the Early 20th Century: 1904-1913. In: [2008] 24th Regional Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science (Boulder, Oct. 10-12, 2008).

Barberousse, Anouk (2007) A Case of Irrationality? In: [2007] &HPS1: Integrated History and Philosophy of Science 1.

Biener, Zvi (2004) Galileo's First Science: The Science of Matter. [Preprint]

Biener, Zvi and Smeenk, Chris (2009) Cotes’ Queries: Newton’s Empiricism and Conceptions of Matter. [Published Article]

Blanc, Floriane (2007) Analyzing an aspect of the inaugural lectures of the Paris Museum of Natural History: An appropriate concept of representation. In: [2007] EPSA07: 1st Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association (Madrid, 15-17 November, 2007).

Blanc, Floriane (2007) Analyzing an aspect of the inaugural lectures of the Paris Museum of Natural History: An appropriate concept of representation. In: [2007] EPSA07: 1st Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association (Madrid, 15-17 November, 2007).

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

Bogen, Jim (2000) 'Two as Good as One Hundred'--Poorly Replicated Evidence is Some 19th Century Neuroscientific Research. [Preprint]

Brown, Harvey R (2001) The origins of length contraction: I. The FitzGerald-Lorentz deformation. [Preprint]

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Castellani, Elena (2009) Dualities and intertheoretic relations. In: [2007] EPSA07: 1st Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association (Madrid, 15-17 November, 2007).

Castellani, Elena (2011) Early string theory as a challenging case study for philosophers. [Preprint]

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

Cei, Angelo (2004) Structural Distinctions. Entities, structures and changes in science. In: [2004] Philosophy of Science Assoc. 19th Biennial Meeting - PSA2004: Contributed Papers (Austin, TX; 2004) > PSA 2004 Contributed Papers. (Unpublished)

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

Dietrich, Michael R. and Millstein, Roberta L. (2007) The Role of Causal Processes in the Neutral and Nearly Neutral Theories. [Preprint]

Ducheyne, Steffen (2006) Galileo’s Interventionist Notion of “Cause”. [Preprint]

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

Ducheyne, Steffen (2006) JOAN BAPTISTA VAN HELMONT AND THE QUESTION OF EXPERIMENTAL MODERNISM. [Preprint]

Ducheyne, Steffen (2008) Kant and Whewell on Bridging Principles between Metaphysics and Science. [Preprint]

Ducheyne, Steffen (2006) Lessons From Galileo: The Pragmatic Model of Shared Characteristics of Scientific Representation. [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 (2010) Testing Universal Gravitation in the Laboratory, or the Significance of Research on the mean Density of the Earth and Big G, 1798-1898: Changing Pursuits and long-term methodological-experimental Continuity. [Preprint]

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

Ducheyne, Steffen (2009) Whewell’s Tidal Researches: Scientific Practise and Philosophical Methodology. [Preprint]

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

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Easton, Patricia (2010) The Father of Cartesian Empiricism: Robert Desgabets on the physics and metaphysics of blood transfusion. In: [2010] HOPOS 2010: The International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (Budapest, 24-27 June 2010).

Elliott, Kevin (2008) Varieties of Exploratory Experimentation in Nanotoxicology. [Preprint]

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Fagan, Melinda (2009) Collaboration, toward an integrative philosophy of scientific practice. In: [2009] SPSP 2009: Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (Minnesota, June 18-20, 2009).

Franklin, Allan (2008) Are the Laws of Physics Inevitable? In: [2008] 24th Regional Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science (Boulder, Oct. 10-12, 2008).

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Gandenberger, Gregory (2009) Producing a Robust Body of Data with a Single Technique. [Preprint]

Gasco, Enrico (2003) Mach's contribution to the origin of Inertia. [Preprint]

Geerdt, Magiels (2007) Jan IngenHousz, or why don't we know who discovered photosynthesis? In: [2007] EPSA07: 1st Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association (Madrid, 15-17 November, 2007).

Giere, Ronald (2010) Contingency, Conditional Realism, and the Evolution of the Sciences. [Preprint]

Giulini, Domenico (2006) What is (not) wrong with scalar gravity? [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]

Griffiths, Paul and Tabery, James (2008) Behavioral Genetics and Development: Historical and Conceptual Causes of Controversy. [Preprint]

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

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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).

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Kragh, Helge (2010) When is a prediction anthropic? Fred Hoyle and the 7.65 MeV carbon resonance. [Preprint]

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Ladyman, James (2009) Structural Realism versus Standard Scientific Realism: The Case of Phlogiston and Dephlogisticated Air. In: [2008] Theoretical Frameworks and Empirical Underdetermination Workshop (Düsseldorf April 10-12, 2008).

Lavenda, B.H. (2001) Relativistic Thermodynamics and the Classical Model of the Electron. UNSPECIFIED. (Unpublished)

Lewowicz, Lucía (2009) THE PURLOINED REFERENT: LAVOISIER AND THE DISAPPEARANCE OF PHLOGISTON. [Preprint]

Lewowicz, Lucía (2011) The term phlogiston and the notion of "failure to refer". In: [2011] 3rd Biennial Conference of the Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (June 22-24, 2011; Exeter, UK).

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MacKinnon, Edward (2002) The Language of Classical Physics. [Preprint]

Midwinter, Charles and Janssen, Michel (2012) Kuhn Losses Regained: Van Vleck from Spectra to Susceptibilities. [Preprint]

Miller, David Marshall (2007) Using Representations of Space to Study Early Modern Physical Science: An Example of Philosophy in the Service of History. In: [2007] &HPS1: Integrated History and Philosophy of Science 1.

Millstein, Roberta L. (2007) Concepts of Drift and Selection in “The Great Snail Debate” of the 1950s and Early 1960s. [Preprint]

Millstein, Roberta L. (2007) Distinguishing Drift and Selection Empirically: “The Great Snail Debate” of the 1950s. [Preprint]

Miyake, Teru (2010) Underdetermination in Geophysics. In: [2010] Philosophy of Science Assoc. 22nd Biennial Mtg (Montréal, QC) > PSA 2010 Contributed Papers.

Mizrahi, Moti (2011) The Scientific Practice of Assessing Progress. In: [2011] 3rd Biennial Conference of the Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (June 22-24, 2011; Exeter, UK).

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Norsen, Travis (2010) Scientific Cumulativity and Conceptual Change: The Case of 'Temperature'. [Preprint]

Norton, John D. (2005) Atoms, Entropy, Quanta: Einstein’s Miraculous Argument of 1905. [Preprint]

Norton, John D. (2012) Chasing the Light: Einstein's Most Famous Thought Experiment. [Preprint]

Norton, John D. (2006) Discovering the Relativity of Simultaneity How did Einstein take "The Step"? [Preprint]

Norton, John D. (2004) Einstein’s Investigations of Galilean Covariant Electrodynamics prior to 1905. [Preprint]

Norton, John D. (2007) Einstein’s Miraculous Argument of 1905: The Thermodynamic Grounding of Light Quanta. [Preprint]

Norton, John D. (2007) History of Science and the Material Theory of Induction: Einstein’s Quanta, Mercury’s Perihelion. In: [2007] &HPS1: Integrated History and Philosophy of Science 1.

Norton, John D. (2004) How Hume and Mach Helped Einstein Find Special Relativity. [Preprint]

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O'Malley, Maureen (2008) Exploratory experimentation and scientific practice: Metagenomics and the proteorhodopsin case. [Preprint]

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P.D., Magnus and Craig, Callender (2004) Realist Ennui and the Base Rate Fallacy. [Preprint]

Parker, Matthew W. (2008) Philosophical Method and Galileo's Paradox of Infinity. [Preprint]

Pence, Charles H. (2011) “Describing our Whole Experience”: The Statistical Philosophy of W.F.R. Weldon. [Preprint]

Pence, Charles H. (2011) ‘‘Describing our whole experience’’: The statistical philosophies of W. F. R. Weldon and Karl Pearson. [Published Article]

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Rescher, Nicholas (2006) ANAXIMANDER AND THE ANTIKYTHERA MECHANISM. UNSPECIFIED.

Rescher, Nicholas (2011) LEIBNIZ’S MACHINA DECIPHRATORIA. [Preprint]

Rickles, Dean (2010) Quantum Gravity Meets &HPS. [Preprint]

Roberts, Bryan W. (2009) How Galileo dropped the ball and Fermat picked it up. [Preprint]

Rosa, Rodolfo (2008) The Merli-Missiroli-Pozzi Two-Slit Electron Interference Experiment. [Preprint]

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Sanduk, Mohammed (2012) Growth of science under the social influence in Arabic-Islamic and Western Civilisations, 700-1900 (Statistical Models). [Preprint]

Schindler, Samuel (2009) Bogen and Woodward’s data-phenomena distinction, forms of theory-ladenness, and the reliability of data. [Preprint]

Schindler, Samuel (2008) How to Discern a Physical Effect from Background Noise: The Discovery of Weak Neutral Currents. [Preprint]

Schindler, Samuel (2007) Model, Theory, and Evidence in the Discovery of the DNA Structure. In: [2007] &HPS1: Integrated History and Philosophy of Science 1.

Schliesser, Eric (2009) From Adam Smith to Darwin; some neglected evidence. [Preprint]

Schliesser, Eric (2010) “Gravity as a relational quality of matter in Newton’s Treatise:”. In: [2009] EPSA09: 2nd Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association (Amsterdam, 21-24 October, 2009) > EPSA 2009 Contributed Papers.

Schliesser, Eric (2010) HUME’S ATTACK ON NEWTON’S PHILOSOPHY. [Preprint]

Schliesser, Eric (2008) Newtonian Emanation, Spinozism, Measurement, and the Baconian Origins of the Laws of Nature. UNSPECIFIED.

Schliesser, Eric (2010) The Surprising Weberian Roots to Milton Friedman’s Methodology. [Preprint]

Schliesser, Eric (2008) Without God: Gravity as a Relational Property of Matter in Newton. UNSPECIFIED.

Schliesser, Eric and Smith, George E. (2000) Huygens's 1688 Report to the Directors of the Dutch East India Company on the Measurement of Longitude at Sea and the Evidence it Offered Against Universal Gravity. [Preprint]

Schurz, Gerhard (2009) Structural Correspondence, Indirect Reference, and Partial Truth: Phlogiston Theory and Newtonian Mechanics. In: [2008] Theoretical Frameworks and Empirical Underdetermination Workshop (Düsseldorf April 10-12, 2008).

Schwitzgebel, Eric (2001) Why Did We Think We Dreamed in Black and White? [Preprint]

Seidenfeld, Teddy (1998) P's in a Pod: some recipes for cooking Mendel's data. [Preprint]

Shekeris, Haris (2010) Of communities and individuals as regards scientific knowledge. In: [2011] 3rd Biennial Conference of the Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (June 22-24, 2011; Exeter, UK).

Shenker, Orly and Hemmo, Meir (2006) Von Neumann's Entropy Does Not Correspond to Thermodynamic Entropy. UNSPECIFIED.

Szabo, Laszlo E. (2010) Lorentzian theories vs. Einsteinian special relativity - a logico-empiricist reconstruction. [Preprint]

Szabó, László E. (2003) Does special relativity theory tell us anything new about space and time? UNSPECIFIED. (Unpublished)

Szabó, László E. (2003) Lorentz's theory and special relativity are completely identical. UNSPECIFIED. (Unpublished)

shea, william (2007) Galileo Then and Now. In: [2007] &HPS1: Integrated History and Philosophy of Science 1.

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Tabery, James (2003) The "Evolutionary Synthesis" of George Udny Yule. [Preprint]

Tabery, James (2006) Looking Back on Lancelot's Laughter: The Lancelot Thomas Hogben Papers. [Preprint]

Tabery, James (2008) R.A. Fisher, Lancelot Hogben, and the Origin(s) of Genotype-Environment Interaction. [Preprint]

Tanona, Scott (2002) Idealization and formalism in Bohr�s approach to quantum theory. [Preprint]

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Vaidman, Lev (2009) Time Symmetry and the Many-Worlds Interpretation. [Preprint]

Van Dyck, Maarten (2004) The Paradox of Conceptual Novelty and Galileo’s Use of Experiments. In: [2004] Philosophy of Science Assoc. 19th Biennial Meeting - PSA2004: Contributed Papers (Austin, TX; 2004) > PSA 2004 Contributed Papers. (Unpublished)

Van Dyck, Maarten (2003) The Roles of One Thought Experiment in Interpreting Quantum Mechanics. Werner Heisenberg meets Thomas Kuhn. [Preprint]

Verelst, Karin (2006) Zeno's Paradoxes. A Cardinal Problem. 1. On Zenonian Plurality. [Preprint]

Vickers, Peter (2007) Was the Early Calculus an Inconsistent Theory? [Preprint]

Vickers, Peter John (2008) Bohr's Theory of the Atom: Content, Closure and Consistency. In: [2007] EPSA07: 1st Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association (Madrid, 15-17 November, 2007).

Vickers, Peter John (2008) Was Newtonian Cosmology Really Inconsistent? [Preprint]

Votsis, Ioannis (2010) How not to be a Realist or why we Ought to Make it Safe for Closet Structural Realists to Come out. [Preprint]

Votsis, Ioannis (2007) Making Contact with Observations. In: [2007] EPSA07: 1st Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association (Madrid, 15-17 November, 2007).

Votsis, Ioannis (2007) Making Contact with Observations. In: [2007] EPSA07: 1st Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association (Madrid, 15-17 November, 2007).

Votsis, Ioannis (2009) Saving the Intuitions: Polylithic Reference. In: [2008] Theoretical Frameworks and Empirical Underdetermination Workshop (Düsseldorf April 10-12, 2008).

Votsis, Ioannis (2009) Structural Realism: Continuity and its Limits. [Preprint]

van Dongen, Jeroen (2007) Emil Rupp, Albert Einstein and the canal ray experiments on wave-particle duality: Scientific fraud and theoretical bias. [Preprint]

van Dongen, Jeroen (2009) On the role of the Michelson-Morley experiment: Einstein in Chicago. [Preprint]

van Dongen, Jeroen (2007) The interpretation of the Einstein-Rupp experiments and their influence on the history of quantum mechanics. [Preprint]

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Walter, Scott A. (2011) Figures of light in the early history of relativity (1905-1914). [Preprint]

Wilkins, John S. (2010) Review of The Cambridge Companion to Darwin. [Preprint]

Wilkins, John S. (2010) What is a species? Essences and generation. [Preprint]

Wilkins, John S. and Nelson, Gareth J. (2008) Trémaux on species: A theory of allopatric speciation (and punctuated equilibrium) before Wagner. UNSPECIFIED.

Wilkins, John S. and Nelson, Gareth J. (2008) Trémaux on species: A theory of allopatric speciation (and punctuated equilibrium) before Wagner. [Preprint]

Wilson, Mark (2007) Frege's Mathematical Setting. [Preprint]

Wilson, Mark (2007) Ghost World: A Context for Frege's Context Principle. [Preprint]

Wolfe, Charles T. (2010) From substantival to functional vitalism and beyond, or from Stahlian animas to Canguilhemian attitudes. [Preprint]

Worrall, John (2009) Underdetermination, Realism and Empirical Equivalence. In: [2008] Theoretical Frameworks and Empirical Underdetermination Workshop (Düsseldorf April 10-12, 2008).

Wüthrich, Adrian (2011) Against the impossible picture: Feynman's heuristics in his search for a divergence-free quantum electrodynamics. [Preprint]

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