Preprint

Northcott, Robert (2022) Reflexivity and fragility. [Preprint]

Northcott, Robert and Alexandrova, Anna and Wright, Jack (2021) Back to the Big Picture. [Preprint]

Diener, Ed and Northcott, Robert and Zyphur, Michael and West, Steven (2021) Beyond experiments. [Preprint]

Northcott, Robert (2021) Prediction, history, and political science. [Preprint]

Northcott, Robert (2019) Big data and prediction: four case studies. [Preprint]

Northcott, Robert (2018) Prediction versus Accommodation in Economics. [Preprint]

Northcott, Robert (2018) Free will is not a testable hypothesis. [Preprint]

Northcott, Robert (2018) Pre-emption cases may support, not undermine, the counterfactual theory of causation. [Preprint]

Northcott, Robert (2018) The efficiency question in economics. [Preprint]

Conference or Workshop Item

Northcott, Robert and Alexandrova, Anna (2014) Armchair Science. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Northcott, Robert (2014) Opinion polling and election predictions. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Northcott, Robert (2008) Innateness and Science. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Northcott, Robert (2004) Pearson's wrong turning: against statistical measures of causal efficacy. In: UNSPECIFIED. (In Press)

Northcott, Robert (2004) Pearson's wrong turning: against statistical measures of causal efficacy. In: UNSPECIFIED. (In Press)

Published Article or Volume

Northcott, Robert (2022) Pandemic Modeling, Good and Bad. Philosophy of Medicine, 3 (1). pp. 1-20. ISSN 2692-3963

Northcott, Robert and Piccinini, Gualtiero (2018) Conceived This Way: Innateness Defended. Philosophers' Imprint, 18 (18). pp. 1-16.

Northcott, Robert (2017) When are purely predictive models best? Disputatio. pp. 631-656.

Northcott, Robert (2016) A dilemma for the Doomsday Argument. Ratio, 29 (3). pp. 268-282.

Northcott, Robert (2015) Opinion polling and election predictions. Philosophy of Science, 82. pp. 1260-1271.

Northcott, Robert and Alexandrova, Anna (2015) Prisoner's Dilemma doesn't explain much. The Prisoner's Dilemma. pp. 64-84.

Northcott, Robert (2013) Degree of explanation. Synthese, 190 (15). pp. 3087-3105. ISSN 1573-0964

Northcott, Robert and Alexandrova, Anna (2013) It's just a feeling: why economic models do not explain. Journal of Economic Methodology, 20 (3). pp. 262-267. ISSN 1350-178X

Northcott, Robert (2013) Verisimilitude: a causal approach. Synthese, 190 (9). pp. 1471-1488. ISSN 1573-0964

Northcott, Robert (2012) Genetic traits and causal explanation. Philosophy of Behavioral Biology. pp. 65-82.

Northcott, Robert (2012) Partial explanations in social science. Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Social Science. pp. 130-153.

Northcott, Robert (2010) Natural-born determinists: a new defense of causation as probability-raising. Philosophical Studies, 150 (1). pp. 1-20. ISSN 0031-8116

Northcott, Robert (2010) Walsh on causes and evolution. Philosophy of Science, 77 (3). pp. 457-467.

Northcott, Robert and Alexandrova, Anna (2009) Progress in economics. Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Economics. pp. 306-337.

Northcott, Robert (2008) Causation and contrast classes. Philosophical Studies, 139 (1). pp. 111-123. ISSN 0031-8116

Northcott, Robert (2008) Can ANOVA measure causal strength? Quarterly Review of Biology, 83 (1). pp. 47-55.

Northcott, Robert (2008) Weighted explanations in history. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 38 (1). pp. 76-96.

Northcott, Robert (2006) Causal efficacy and the analysis of variance. pp. 253-276.

Northcott, Robert (2005) Pearson’s Wrong Turning: Against Statistical Measures of Causal Efficacy. Philosophy of Science, 72 (5). pp. 900-912.

Northcott, Robert (2005) Comparing apples with oranges. Analysis, 65 (1). pp. 12-18. ISSN 0003-2638