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Bigelow, John C., Ellis, Brian and Lierse, Caroline. 1992. “The World as One of a Kind.” The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 43: 371–388.
Bigelow, John C., Ellis, Brian and Pargetter, Robert. 1988. “Forces.” Philosophy of Science 55(4): 614–630.
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.
Ellis, Brian. 1965. “The Origin and Nature of Newton’s Laws of Motion.” in Beyond the Edge of Certainty: Essays in Contemporary Science and Philosophy, edited by Robert G. Colodny, pp. 69–74. Center for Philosophy of Science Series n. 2. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc. Reprint: Colodny (1983).
Ellis, Brian. 1966. Basic Concepts of Measurement. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Ellis, Brian. 1967. “Physical Monism.” Synthese 17(1): 141–161.
Ellis, Brian. 1969. “An Epistemological Concept of Truth.” in Contemporary Philosophy in Australia, edited by Robert Brown and C. D. Rollins, pp. 52–72. Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey: Humanities Press.
Ellis, Brian. 1973. “The Logic of Subjective Probability.” The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 24(2): 125–152.
Ellis, Brian. 1975. “Physicalism and the Contents of Sense Experience.” in Philosophical Aspects of the Mind-Body Problem, edited by Chung-Ying Cheng. Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press.
Ellis, Brian. 1976a. “Epistemic Foundations of Logic.” The Journal of Philosophical Logic 5(2): 187–204.
Ellis, Brian. 1976b. “Avowals are More Corrigible than You Think.” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 55: 201–205.
Ellis, Brian. 1978. “A Unified Theory of Conditionals.” The Journal of Philosophical Logic 7(2): 107–124.
Ellis, Brian. 1979a. Rational Belief Systems. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield.
Ellis, Brian. 1979b. “Hypothetical Reasoning and Conditionals.” in The Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher. Discussion and Replies, edited by Ernest Sosa, pp. 33–45. Philosophical Studies Series n. 15. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Ellis, Brian. 1982. “Reply to Sørensen (1982).” The Journal of Philosophical Logic 11(4): 461–462.
Ellis, Brian. 1985. “What Science Aims to Do.” in Images of Science. Essays on Realism and Empiricism, with a Reply from Bas C. van Fraassen, pp. 48–74. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press.
Ellis, Brian. 1987a. “The Ontology of Scientific Realism.” in Metaphysics and Morality: Essays in Honour of J.J.C. Smart, edited by Philip Pettit, Richard Sylvan, and Jean Norman, pp. 50–70. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Ellis, Brian. 1987b. “Comments on Forge (1987) and Swoyer (1987).” in Measurement, Realism and Objectivity: Essays on Measurement in the Social and Physical Sciences, edited by John Forge, pp. 319–326. Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science n. 5. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Ellis, Brian. 1989. “Implications of Science for Epistemology and Metaphysics.” in Science, Mind, and Psychology: Essays in Honor of Grover Maxwell, edited by Mary Lou Maxwell and C. Wade Savage, pp. 311–338. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America.
Ellis, Brian. 1991. “Conventionalism in Measurement Theory.” in Philosophical and Foundational Issues in Measurement Theory, edited by C. Wade Savage and Philip Ehrlich, pp. 167–180. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
Ellis, Brian. 1996. “Natural Kinds and Natural Kind Reasoning.” in Natural Kinds, Laws of Nature and Scientific Methodology, edited by Peter J. Riggs, pp. 11–28. Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science n. 12. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Ellis, Brian. 1999a. “Causal Powers and Laws of Nature.” in Causation and the Laws of Nature, edited by Howard Sankey, pp. 19–34. Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science n. 14. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, doi:10.1007/978-94-015-9229-1.
Ellis, Brian. 1999b. “Response to Armstrong (1999).” in Causation and the Laws of Nature, edited by Howard Sankey, pp. 39–44. Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science n. 14. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, doi:10.1007/978-94-015-9229-1.
Ellis, Brian. 1999c. “Bigelow’s Worries about Scientific Essentialism [reply to Bigelow (1999)].” in Causation and the Laws of Nature, edited by Howard Sankey, pp. 61–76. Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science n. 14. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, doi:10.1007/978-94-015-9229-1.
Ellis, Brian. 2000. “Causal Laws and Singular Causation.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 61(2): 329–351.
Ellis, Brian. 2001. Scientific Essentialism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Ellis, Brian. 2002a. The Philosophy of Nature – A Guide to the New Essentialism. Montréal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, doi:10.4324/9781315710624.
Ellis, Brian. 2002b. “Human Agency, Realism and the New Essentialism.” in Recent Themes in the Philosophy of Science. Scientific Realism and Commonsense, edited by Steve Clarke and Timothy D. Lyons, pp. 193–208. Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science n. 17. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Ellis, Brian. 2004. “Review of Psillos (1999).” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 68(2): 495–497.
Ellis, Brian. 2005a.“Katzav (2004) on the Limitations of Dispositionalism.” Analysis 65(1): 90–92.
Ellis, Brian. 2005b. “Physical Realism.” Ratio 18(4): 371–384.
Ellis, Brian. 2005c. “Marc Lange on Essentialism.” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 83(1): 75–79.
Ellis, Brian. 2005d. “Universals, the Essential Problem and Categorical Properties.” Ratio 18(4): 462–472.
Ellis, Brian. 2006a. “Constructing an Ontology.” in Topics on General and Formal Ontology, edited by Paolo Valore, pp. 15–26. Monza: Polimetrica.
Ellis, Brian. 2006b. “Looking for Laws [review of Mumford (2004)].” Metascience 15(3): 437–469.
Ellis, Brian. 2008. “Essentialism and Natural Kinds.” in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science, edited by Stathis Psillos and Martin Curd, pp. 139–148. Routledge Philosophy Companions. London: Routledge.
Ellis, Brian. 2009. The Metaphysics of Scientific Realism. Stocksfield: Acumen Publishing.
Ellis, Brian. 2010. “Causal Powers and Categorical Properties.” in The Metaphysics of Powers. Their Grounding and their Manifestations, edited by Anna Marmodoro, pp. 133–142. Routledge Studies in Metaphysics n. 2. London: Routledge.
Ellis, Brian. 2012a. Social Humanism. A New Metaphysics. Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory. London: Routledge.
Ellis, Brian. 2012b. “The Categorical Dimensions of the Causal Powers.” in Properties, Powers and Structures. Issues in the Metaphysics of Realism, edited by Alexander Bird, Brian Ellis, and Howard Sankey, pp. 11–26. Routledge Studies in Metaphysics n. 5. New York: Routledge, doi:10.4324/9780203124482.
Ellis, Brian. 2013. “The Power of Agency.” in Powers and Capacities in Philosophy. The New Aristotelianism, edited by John Greco and Ruth Groff, pp. 186–206. London: Routledge.
Ellis, Brian. 2014. “From Conventionalism to Scientfic Metaphysics.” in History of Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand, volume II, pp. 329–360. Dordrecht: Springer.
Ellis, Brian, Home, Roderick, Oldroyd, David R., Nola, Robert, Sankey, Howard, Hutchison, Keith, Thomason, Neil, et al. 2014. “History and Philosophy of Science.” in History of Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand, volume II, pp. 707–772. Dordrecht: Springer.
Ellis, Brian, Jackson, Frank and Pargetter, Robert. 1977. “An Objection to Possible-World Semantics for Counterfactual Logics.” The Journal of Philosophical Logic 6(3): 355–357.
Ellis, Brian and Lierse, Caroline. 1994a. “Dispositional Essentialism.” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 72: 27–45.
Ellis, Brian and Lierse, Caroline. 1994b. “The Fundamental Importance of Natural Kinds.” 3/94. Melbourne: Victorian Centre for the History; Philosophy of Science, La Trobe University.
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.
Further References
Armstrong, David M. 1999. “Comment on Ellis (1999a).” in Causation and the Laws of Nature, edited by Howard Sankey, pp. 35–38. Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science n. 14. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, doi:10.1007/978-94-015-9229-1.
Bigelow, John C. 1999. “Scientific Ellisianism.” in Causation and the Laws of Nature, edited by Howard Sankey, pp. 45–60. Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science n. 14. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, doi:10.1007/978-94-015-9229-1.
Forge, John. 1987. “On Ellis’ Theory of Quantities.” in Measurement, Realism and Objectivity: Essays on Measurement in the Social and Physical Sciences, edited by John Forge, pp. 291–310. Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science n. 5. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Katzav, Joel. 2004. “Dispositionalism and the Principle of Least Action.” Analysis 64(4): 206–214.
Mumford, Stephen. 2004. Laws in Nature. Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy n. 18. London: Routledge.
Psillos, Stathis. 1999. Scientific Realism: How Science Tracks the Truth. London: Routledge, doi:10.4324/9780203979648.
Sørensen, Roy A. 1982. “Epistemic and Classical Validity.” The Journal of Philosophical Logic 11(4): 459–460.
Swoyer, Chris. 1987. “The Metaphysics of Measurement.” in Measurement, Realism and Objectivity: Essays on Measurement in the Social and Physical Sciences, edited by John Forge, pp. 235–290. Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science n. 5. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.