Alexander Bird (bird-a)

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Bibliography

Bird, Alexander. 1994. “Rationality and the Structure of Self-Deception.” in Philosophy of Mind, edited by Gianfranco Soldati, pp. 19–38. European Review of Philosophy n. 1. Stanford, California: CSLI Publications.
Bird, Alexander. 1997. “The Logic in Logicism.” Dialogue. Revue canadienne de philosophie / Canadian Philosophical Review 36: 341–360.
Bird, Alexander. 1998a. Philosophy of Science. London: University College Press.
Bird, Alexander. 1998b. “Dispositions and Antidotes.” The Philosophical Quarterly 48(191): 227–234, doi:10.1111/1467-9213.00098.
Bird, Alexander. 1999. “Explanation and Laws.” Synthese 120: 1–18.
Bird, Alexander. 2000a. Thomas Kuhn. Philosophy Now. Stocksfield: Acumen Publishing.
Bird, Alexander. 2000b. “Further Antidotes: A Response to Gundersen.” The Philosophical Quarterly 50: 229–233.
Bird, Alexander. 2001a. “Necessarily, Salt Dissolves in Water.” Analysis 61: 267–274.
Bird, Alexander. 2001b. “Scepticism and Contrast Classes.” Analysis 61: 97–107.
Bird, Alexander. 2002a. “Laws and Criteria.” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 32: 511–541.
Bird, Alexander. 2002b. “On Whether Some Laws Are Necessary.” Analysis 62: 257–270.
Bird, Alexander. 2002c. “Kuhn’s Wrong Turning.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 33(3): 443–463.
Bird, Alexander. 2003a. “Structural Properties.” in Real Metaphysics – Essays in honour of D.H. Mellor, edited by Hallvard Lillehammer and Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra, pp. 154–168. Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy n. 15. London: Routledge.
Bird, Alexander. 2003b. “Nozick’s Fourth Condition.” Facta Philosophica 5(1): 183–192.
Bird, Alexander. 2003c. “Resemblance Nominalism and Counterparts.” Analysis 63(3): 221–228.
Bird, Alexander. 2004a. “Kuhn, Naturalism, and the Positivist Legacy.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 35(2): 337–356.
Bird, Alexander. 2004b. “Strong Necessitarianism: The Nomological Identity of Possible Worlds.” Ratio 17(3): 256–276.
Bird, Alexander. 2004c. “Antidotes All the Way Down?” Theoria (San Sebastian), Secunda época 19: 259–269.
Bird, Alexander. 2004d. “Is Evidence Non-Inferential?” The Philosophical Quarterly 54(215): 253–265, doi:10.1111/j.0031-8094.2004.00350.x.
Bird, Alexander. 2004e. “Thomas Kuhn.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2004/entries/thomas-kuhn/.
Bird, Alexander. 2005a. “Laws and Essences.” Ratio 18(4): 437–461.
Bird, Alexander. 2005b. “Unexpected a Posteriori Necessary Laws of Nature.” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 83(4): 533–548.
Bird, Alexander. 2005c. “The Dispositionalist Conception of Laws.” Foundations of Science 10: 353–370.
Bird, Alexander. 2005d. “Explanation and Metaphysics.” Synthese 143(1–2): 89–107, doi:10.1007/s11229-005-3115-2.
Bird, Alexander. 2005e. “Naturalizing Kuhn.” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 105: 109–127.
Bird, Alexander. 2005f. “The Ultimate Argument Against Armstrong’s Contingent Necessitation View of Laws.” Analysis 65(2): 147–155, doi:10.1111/j.1467-8284.2005.00542.x.
Bird, Alexander. 2005g. “Abductive Knowledge and Holmesian Inference.” in Oxford Studies in Epistemology, volume I, edited by Tamar Szabó Gendler and John Hawthorne, pp. 1–31. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780199285891.001.0001.
Bird, Alexander. 2006. “Potency and Modality.” Synthese 149(3): 447–452.
Bird, Alexander. 2007a. Nature’s Metaphysics. Laws and Properties. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199227013.001.0001.
Bird, Alexander. 2007b. “The Regress of Pure Powers.” The Philosophical Quarterly 57(229): 513–534.
Bird, Alexander. 2007c. “A Posteriori Knowledge of Natural Kind Essences: A Defense.” Philosophical Topics 35(1–2): 293–312.
Bird, Alexander. 2007d. “Inference to the Only Explanation [on Lipton (2004)].” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 74(2): 424–432.
Bird, Alexander. 2007e. “Justified Judging.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 74(1): 81–110.
Bird, Alexander. 2007f. “Selection and Explanation.” in Proklos. Methode, Seelenlehre, Metaphysik. Akten der Konferenz in Jena am 18.-20. September 2003, edited by Matthias Perkams and Roas Maria Piccione, pp. 131–136. Philosophia Antiqua n. 98. Leiden: E.J. Brill.
Bird, Alexander. 2007g. “Underdetermination and Evidence.” in Images of Empiricism. Essays on Science and Stances, with a reply from Bas C. van Fraassen, pp. 62–82. Mind Association Occasional Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199218844.001.0001.
Bird, Alexander. 2008a. “Lowe on a Posteriori Essentialism.” Analysis 68(4): 336–344.
Bird, Alexander. 2008b. “The Historical Turn in the Philosophy of Science.” in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science, edited by Stathis Psillos and Martin Curd, pp. 67–77. Routledge Philosophy Companions. London: Routledge.
Bird, Alexander. 2008c. “The Epistemological Argument Against Lewis’s Regularity View of Laws.” Philosophical Studies 138(1): 73–89.
Bird, Alexander. 2008d. “Scientific Progress as Accumulation of Knowledge: A Reply to Rowbottom (2008).” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 39(2): 279–281.
Bird, Alexander. 2008e. “Incommensurability Naturalized.” in Rethinking Scientific Change and Theory Comparison: Stabilities, Ruptures, Incommensurabilities?, edited by Léna Soler, Howard Sankey, and Paul Hoyningen-Huene, pp. 21–40. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 255. Dordrecht: Springer.
Bird, Alexander. 2009a. “Essences and Natural Kinds.” in The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics, edited by Robin Le Poidevin, Peter M. Simons, Andrew McGonigal, and Ross P. Cameron, pp. 497–506. Routledge Philosophy Companions. London: Routledge, doi:10.4324/9780203879306.
Bird, Alexander. 2009b. “Structural Properties Revisited.” in Dispositions and Causes, edited by Toby Handfield, pp. 215–241. Mind Association Occasional Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Bird, Alexander. 2009c. “Are Natural Kinds Reducible?” in Proceedings of the 31st International Wittgenstein Symposium: Reduction – Abstraction – Analysis, edited by Alexander Hieke and Hannes Leitgeb, pp. 127–136. Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society (new series) n. 11. Heusenstamm b. Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag.
Bird, Alexander. 2009d. “…And Then Again, He Might Not Be.” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 87(3): 517–521.
Bird, Alexander. 2010a. “Discovering the Essences of Natural Kinds.” in The Semantics and Metaphysics of Natural Kinds, edited by Helen Beebee and Nigel Sabbarton-Leary, pp. 125–136. Routledge Studies in Metaphysics n. 1. London: Routledge.
Bird, Alexander. 2010b. “Causation and the Manifestation of Powers.” in The Metaphysics of Powers. Their Grounding and their Manifestations, edited by Anna Marmodoro, pp. 160–168. Routledge Studies in Metaphysics n. 2. London: Routledge.
Bird, Alexander. 2010c. “Social Knowing: The Social Sense of ‘Scientific Knowledge’ .” in Philosophical Perspectives 24: Epistemology, edited by John Hawthorne, pp. 23–56. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley; Sons, Inc.
Bird, Alexander. 2010d. “Eliminative Abduction: Examples from Medicine.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 41(4): 345–352.
Bird, Alexander. 2011a. “Thomas Kuhn’s Relativistic Legacy.” in A Companion to Relativism, edited by Steven D. Hales, pp. 475–488. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, doi:10.1002/9781444392494.
Bird, Alexander. 2011b. “Philosophy of Science and Epistemology.” in The Continuum Companion to the Philosophy of Science, edited by Steven French and Juha Saatsi, pp. 15–32. London: Continuum International Publishing Group.
Bird, Alexander. 2011c. “Lange and Laws, Kinds, and Counterfactuals.” in Carving Nature at Its Joints. Natural Kinds in Metaphysics and Science, edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O’Rourke, and Matthew H. Slater, pp. 85–96. Topics in Contemporary Philosophy n. 7. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, doi:10.7551/mitpress/9780262015936.001.0001.
Bird, Alexander. 2011d. “Inductive Knowledge.” in The Routledge Companion to Epistemology, edited by Sven Bernecker and Duncan Pritchard, pp. 271–282. Routledge Philosophy Companions. London: Routledge.
Bird, Alexander. 2011e. “Thomas Kuhn.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2011/entries/thomas-kuhn/.
Bird, Alexander. 2011f. “Waismann versus Ewing on Causality.” in Friedrich Waismann – Causality and Logical Positivism, edited by Brian McGuinness, pp. 207–224. Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook n. 15. Dordrecht: Springer.
Bird, Alexander. 2012a. “Monistic Dispositional Essentialism.” in Properties, Powers and Structures. Issues in the Metaphysics of Realism, edited by Alexander Bird, Brian Ellis, and Howard Sankey, pp. 35–42. Routledge Studies in Metaphysics n. 5. New York: Routledge, doi:10.4324/9780203124482.
Bird, Alexander. 2012b. “Are Any Kinds Ontologically Fundamental?” in Contemporary Aristotelian Metaphysics, edited by Tuomas E. Tahko, pp. 94–104. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Bird, Alexander. 2012c. “Dispositional Expressions.” in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language, edited by Gillian K. Russell and Delia Graff Fara, pp. 729–740. Routledge Philosophy Companions. London: Routledge.
Bird, Alexander. 2013. “Limitations of Power.” in Powers and Capacities in Philosophy. The New Aristotelianism, edited by John Greco and Ruth Groff, pp. 25–47. London: Routledge.
Bird, Alexander. 2014a. “Review of Lange (2009).” The Philosophical Review 123(1): 116–118.
Bird, Alexander. 2014b. “Time, Chance, and the Necessity of Everything.” in Chance and Temporal Asymmetry, edited by Alastair Wilson, pp. 280–294. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199673421.001.0001.
Bird, Alexander. 2014c. “When is there a Group that Knows? Distributed Cognition, Scientific Knowledge, and the Social Epistemic Subject.” in Essays in Collective Epistemology, edited by Jennifer Lackey, pp. 42–63. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199665792.001.0001.
Bird, Alexander. 2015. “Kuhn and the Historiography of Science.” in Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions – 50 Years On, edited by William J. Devlin and Alisa Bukolich, pp. 23–38. Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science n. 311. Dordrecht: Springer.
Bird, Alexander. 2016a. “Overpowering: How the Powers Ontology Has Overreached Itself.” Mind 125(498): 341–383, doi:10.1093/mind/fzv207.
Bird, Alexander. 2016b. “A Foreword to Lowe (2016).” in Individuals Across the Sciences, edited by Alexandre Guay and Thomas Pradeu, pp. 46–48. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199382514.001.0001.
Bird, Alexander. 2017a. “Manifesting Time and Space: Background-Free Physical Theories.” in Causal Powers, edited by Jonathan D. Jacobs, pp. 127–138. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780198796572.001.0001.
Bird, Alexander. 2017b. “Review of Schurz (2013).” Grazer Philosophische Studien 94(4): 638–640.
Bird, Alexander. 2017c. “Inference to the Best Explanation, Bayesianism, and Knowledge.” in Best Explanations. New Essays on Inference to the Best Explanation, edited by Kevin McCain and Ted Poston, pp. 97–120. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780198746904.001.0001.
Bird, Alexander. 2017d. “Scientific Realism and Epistemology.” in The Routledge Handbook of Scientific Realism, edited by Juha Saatsi, pp. 419–433. Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy. London: Routledge, doi:10.4324/9780203712498.
Bird, Alexander. 2018a. “The Metaphysics of Natural Kinds.” Synthese 195(4): 1397–1426.
Bird, Alexander. 2018b. “Thomas Kuhn.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2018/entries/thomas-kuhn/.
Bird, Alexander. 2020. “Group Belief and Knowledge.” in The Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology, edited by Miranda Fricker, Peter J. Graham, David Henderson, Nikolaj Jang Lee Linding Pedersen, and Jeremy Wyatt, pp. 274–283. Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy. London: Routledge.
Bird, Alexander. 2021. “Natural Kinds and Modality.” in The Routledge Handbook of Modality, edited by Otávio Bueno and Scott A. Shalkowski, pp. 239–250. Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy. London: Routledge.
Bird, Alexander. 2022. Knowing Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780199606658.001.0001.
Bird, Alexander. 2024. “Scientific Evidence.” in The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Evidence, edited by Maria Lasonen-Aarnio and Clayton Littlejohn, pp. 528–536. Routledge Handbooks. New York: Routledge, doi:10.4324/9781315672687.
Bird, Alexander, Ellis, Brian and Sankey, Howard, eds. 2012. Properties, Powers and Structures. Issues in the Metaphysics of Realism. Routledge Studies in Metaphysics n. 5. New York: Routledge, doi:10.4324/9780203124482.
Bird, Alexander and Ladyman, James, eds. 2012. Arguing about Science. London: Routledge.
Bird, Alexander and Tobin, Emma. 2008. “Natural Kinds.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2008/entries/natural-kinds/.
Bird, Alexander and Tobin, Emma. 2015. “Natural Kinds.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2015/entries/natural-kinds/.
Bird, Alexander and Tobin, Emma. 2017. “Natural Kinds.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2017/entries/natural-kinds/.
Bird, Alexander and Tobin, Emma. 2022. “Natural Kinds.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2022/entries/natural-kinds/.
Ellis, Brian, Sankey, Howard and Bird, Alexander. 2012. “Introduction.” in Properties, Powers and Structures. Issues in the Metaphysics of Realism, edited by Alexander Bird, Brian Ellis, and Howard Sankey, pp. 1–7. Routledge Studies in Metaphysics n. 5. New York: Routledge, doi:10.4324/9780203124482.
Handfield, Toby and Bird, Alexander. 2008. “Dispositions, Rules, and Finks.” Philosophical Studies 140(2): 285–298.
Hawley, Katherine and Bird, Alexander. 2011. “What are Natural Kinds?” in Philosophical Perspectives 25: Metaphysics, edited by John Hawthorne, pp. 205–221. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley; Sons, Inc.

Further References

Lange, Marc. 2009. Laws and Lawmakers. Science, Metaphysics, and the Laws of Nature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195328134.001.0001.
Lipton, Peter. 1991. Inference to the Best Explanation. London: Routledge. Second edition: Lipton (2004).
Lipton, Peter. 2004. Inference to the Best Explanation. 2nd ed. London: Routledge. First edition: Lipton (1991).
Lowe, Edward Jonathan. 2016. “Non-Individuals.” in Individuals Across the Sciences, edited by Alexandre Guay and Thomas Pradeu, pp. 49–60. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199382514.001.0001.
Rowbottom, Darrell P. 2008. “N-Rays and the Semantic View of Scientific Progress.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 39(2): 277–278.
Schurz, Gerhard. 2013. Philosophy of Science. A Unified Approach. London: Routledge.