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Ioannidis, Stavros and Psillos, Stathis. 2017. “Mechanisms and the Metaphysics of
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Handbook of Mechanisms and Mechanical Philosophy, edited by
Stuart S. Glennan and Phyllis Illari, pp. 144–156. Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy. London:
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Ioannidis, Stavros and Psillos, Stathis. 2022. Mechanisms in Science: Method or Metaphysics?
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/9781009019668.
Lagerlund, Henrik, Hill, Benjamin and Psillos, Stathis, eds. 2021. Reconsidering Causal Powers: Historical and Conceptual
Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780198869528.001.0001.
Psillos, Stathis. 1995. “Is Structural Realism the Best of Both
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Psillos, Stathis. 1996. “Scientific Realism and the ‘Pessimistic
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Psillos, Stathis. 1997. “Naturalism without Truth?” Studies in
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Psillos, Stathis. 1999. Scientific Realism: How Science Tracks the
Truth. London: Routledge, doi:10.4324/9780203979648.
Psillos, Stathis. 2000a. “The Present State of the Scientific Realism
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Psillos, Stathis. 2000b. “Rudolf Carnap’s ‘Theoretical Concepts in
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Psillos, Stathis. 2001a. “Predictive Similarity and the Success of Science: A Reply
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Psillos, Stathis. 2001b. “Is
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Psillos, Stathis. 2002. “Simply the Best: A Case for Abduction.” in
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Psillos, Stathis. 2003. Causation and Explanation. Central Problems of Philosophy n. 8.
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Psillos, Stathis. 2004a. “Tracking the Real: Through Thick and Thin.”
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Psillos, Stathis. 2004b. “Inference to the Best Explanation and
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Psillos, Stathis. 2005. “Scientific Realism and Metaphysics.”
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Psillos, Stathis. 2006a. “What do Powers do When They Are Not
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Psillos, Stathis. 2006b. “Thinking about the Ultimate Argument for
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Psillos, Stathis. 2006c. “Ramsey’s Ramsey-Sentences.” in Cambridge and Vienna. Frank P. Ramsey and the Vienna
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Psillos, Stathis. 2007a. “The Structure, the Whole Structure and nothing but the
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Psillos, Stathis. 2007b. “Past and Contemporary Perspectives on
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Psillos, Stathis. 2007c. “The Fine Structure of Inference to the Best Explanation
[on Lipton
(2004)].” Philosophy and Phenomenological
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Psillos, Stathis. 2007d.
“Causal Explanation and Manipulation.” in
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in Jena am 18.-20. September 2003, edited by Matthias Perkams and Roas Maria Piccione, pp. 93–108. Philosophia
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Psillos, Stathis. 2007e. “Putting a Bridle on Irrationality: An Appraisal of van
Fraassen’s New Epistemology.” in Images of Empiricism. Essays on Science and Stances, with
a reply from Bas C. van Fraassen, pp. 134–164. Mind
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Psillos, Stathis. 2008a. “Philosophy of Science.” in The Routledge Companion to Twentieth-Century
Philosophy, edited by Dermot Moran, pp. 618–658. Routledge Philosophy
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Psillos, Stathis. 2008b. “Cartwright’s Realist Toil: From Entities to
Capacities.” in Nancy
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Psillos, Stathis. 2009a. Knowing the Structure of Nature. Essays on Realism and
Explanation. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.
Psillos, Stathis. 2009b.
“Regularity Theories.” in The Oxford Handbook of Causation, edited by
Helen Beebee, Christopher R. Hitchcock, and Peter Menzies, pp. 131–157. Oxford
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Psillos, Stathis. 2009c.
“Causal Pluralism.” in Worldviews, Science and Us: Studies of Analytical
Metaphysics. A Selection of Topics from a Methodological Perspective –
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2-3 June 2005, edited by Robrecht Vanderbeeken and Bart D’Hooge, pp. 131–151. Singapore: World
Scientific Publishing Co.
Psillos, Stathis. 2009d.
“Against Neo-Instrumentalism.” in Knowing the Structure of Nature. Essays on Realism and
Explanation, pp. 69–83. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave
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Psillos, Stathis. 2011a. “Scientific Realism with a Humean Face.” in
The Continuum Companion to the Philosophy of
Science, edited by Steven French and Juha Saatsi, pp. 75–96. London: Continuum
International Publishing Group.
Psillos, Stathis. 2011b. “The Idea of Mechanism.” in Causality in the Sciences, edited by Phyllis
Illari, Federica Russo, and Jon Williamson, pp. 771–788. Oxford: Oxford
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Psillos, Stathis. 2011c. “The Scope and Limits of the No MIracles
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Psillos, Stathis. 2011d. “Moving Molecules above the Scientific Horizon: On
Perrin’s Case for Realism.” Journal for General
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Psillos, Stathis. 2011e. “Choosing the Realist Framework.”
Synthese 180(2): 301–316.
Psillos, Stathis. 2011f. “Living with the Abstract: Realism and
Models.” Synthese 180(1): 3–17.
Psillos, Stathis. 2011g. “On Reichenbach’s Argument for Scientific
Realism.” Synthese 181(1): 23–40.
Psillos, Stathis. 2011h. “Regularities All the Way Down: Thomas Brown’s Philosophy
of Causation.” in Causation and
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Psillos, Stathis. 2011i. “An Explorer upon Untrodden Ground: Peirce on
Abduction.” in Handbook of the
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Psillos, Stathis. 2012a.
“Anti-Nominalistic Scientific Realism: A
Defence.” in Properties, Powers
and Structures. Issues in the Metaphysics of Realism, edited
by Alexander Bird, Brian Ellis, and Howard Sankey, pp. 63–80. Routledge Studies in Metaphysics n. 5. New York:
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Psillos, Stathis. 2012b. “Adding Modality to Ontic Structuralism: An Exploration
and Critique.” in Structural
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Psillos, Stathis. 2012c. “Causal Descriptivism and the Reference of Theoretical
Terms.” in Perception, Realism
and the Problem of Reference, edited by Athanassios Raftopoulos and Peter K. Machamer, pp. 212–238. Cambridge: Cambridge
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Psillos, Stathis. 2013a. “Semirealism or Neo-Aristotelianism?”
Erkenntnis 78(1): 29–38.
Psillos, Stathis. 2013b. “Reason and Science.” in Reason and Rationality, edited by Maria
Cristina Amoretti and Nicla Vassallo, pp. 33–52. Philosophische
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Psillos, Stathis. 2014. “The View from Within and the View from
Above: Looking at van Fraassen’s Perrin.” in
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Psillos, Stathis. 2015. “Evidence: Wanted, Alive or Dead.”
Canadian Journal of Philosophy 45(3): 357–381.
Psillos, Stathis. 2017a. “Scientific Realism and the Mind-Independence of the
World.” in Varieties of
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by Evandro Agazzi, pp. 209–226. Berlin:
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Psillos, Stathis. 2017b. “The Realist Turn in the Philosophy of
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Psillos, Stathis. 2018a. “Tolstoy’s Argument: Realism and the History of
Science.” Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the
History and Philosophy of Science 9(1): 68–77.
Psillos, Stathis. 2018b. “Laws and Powers in the Frame of
Nature.” in Laws of
Nature, edited by Walter R. Ott and Lydia Patton, pp. 80–107. Oxford: Oxford University
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Psillos, Stathis. 2018c. “Knowing the Unobservable: Confirmation and Theoretical
Virtues.” in The Philosophy of
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Psillos, Stathis. 2018d. “Realism and Theory Change in Science.” in
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Psillos, Stathis. 2019. “Review of Glennan (2017).”
Australasian Journal of Philosophy 97(3): 621–624.
Psillos, Stathis. 2020. “The Scope and Power of Abstraction in
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Psillos, Stathis. 2022. “Realism and Theory Change in Science.” in
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Psillos, Stathis and Curd, Martin, eds. 2008. The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of
Science. Routledge Philosophy Companions.
London: Routledge.
Psillos, Stathis and Ruttkamp-Bloem, Emma. 2017. “Scientific Realism: Quo Vadis? Introduction: New Thinking
about Scientific Realism.” Synthese 194(9):
3187–3201.
Psillos, Stathis and Shaw, Jamie. 2020. “Relativism and Scientific Realism.” in
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London: Routledge. First edition: Lipton (1991).