James F. Woodward (woodward-j)

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Bibliography

Allman, John and Woodward, James F. 2008. “What are Moral Intuitions and Why should we Care About Them? A Neurobiological Perspective.” in Philosophical Issues 18: Interdisciplinary Core Philosophy, edited by Ernest Sosa and Enrique Villanueva, pp. 164–185. Malden, Massachusetts: Wiley-Blackwell.
Bogen, James [Jim] and Woodward, James F. 2005. “Evading the IRS.” in Idealization XII: Correcting the Model. Idealization and Abstraction in the Sciences, edited by Martin R. Jones and Nancy Cartwright, pp. 233–268. Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities n. 86. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
Hitchcock, Christopher R. and Woodward, James F. 2003. “Explanatory Generalizations, Part II: Plumbing Explanatory Depth.” Noûs 37(2): 181–199.
Horgan, Terence E. and Woodward, James F. 1985. “Folk Psychology is Here to Stay.” The Philosophical Review 94: 197–225. Reprinted in Greenwood (1991, 149–175) and in Christensen and Turner (1993, 144–187).
Ross, Lauren and Woodward, James F. 2023. “Causal Approaches to Scientific Explanation.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2023/entries/causal-explanation-science/.
Woodward, James F. 1984. “A Theory of Singular Causal Explanation.” Erkenntnis 21: 231–262.
Woodward, James F. 1988. “Understanding Regression.” in PSA 1988: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part I: Contributed Papers, edited by Arthur I. Fine and Jarrett Leplin, pp. 255–269. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Woodward, James F. 1989. “The Causal Mechanical Model of Explanation.” in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume XIII: Scientific Explanation, edited by Philip Kitcher and Wesley C. Salmon, pp. 357–383. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
Woodward, James F. 1990. “Supervenience and Singular Causal Claims.” in Explanation and its Limits, edited by Dudley Knowles, pp. 211–246. Royal Institute of Philosophy Lectures n. 27. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Woodward, James F. 1992. “Realism about Laws.” Erkenntnis 36(2): 181–218.
Woodward, James F. 1993. “Capacities and Invariance.” in Philosophical Problems of the Internal and External Worlds. Essays on the Philosophy of Adolf Grünbaum, edited by John S. Earman, Allen I. Janis, Gerald J. Massey, and Nicholas Rescher, pp. 283–328. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Woodward, James F. 2000a. “Data, Phenomena, and Reliability.” Philosophy of Science 67(suppl.): S163–S179. PSA 1998: Proceedings of the 1998 Biennial Meetings of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposium Papers.
Woodward, James F. 2000b. “Explanation and Invariance in the Special Sciences.” The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 51: 197–254.
Woodward, James F. 2001a. “Causation and Manipulability.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2001/entries/causation-mani/.
Woodward, James F. 2001b. “Law and Explanation in Biology: Invariance is the Kind of Stability that Matters.” Philosophy of Science 68: 1–20.
Woodward, James F. 2002. “Explanation.” in The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Science, edited by Peter K. Machamer and Michael Silberstein, pp. 37–54. Blackwell Philosophy Guides. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, doi:10.1002/9780470756614.
Woodward, James F. 2003a. Making Things Happen. A Theory of Causal Explanation. Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/0195155270.001.0001.
Woodward, James F. 2003b. “Review of Pearl (2000).” Economics and Philosophy 19(2): 321–340.
Woodward, James F. 2006. “Sensitive and Insensitive Causation.” The Philosophical Review 115(1): 1–50.
Woodward, James F. 2007a. “Causal Models in the Social Sciences.” in Philosophy of Anthropology and Sociology, edited by Stephen P. Turner and Mark W. Risjord, pp. 157–212. Handbook of the Philosophy of Science n. 15. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers B.V.
Woodward, James F. 2007b. “Causation with a Human Face.” in Causation, Physics and the Constitution of Reality: Russell’s Republic Revisited, edited by Huw Price and Richard Corry, pp. 66–105. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Woodward, James F. 2007c. “Interventionist Theories of Causation in Psychological Perspective.” in Causal Learning: Psychology, Philosophy and Computation, edited by Alison Gopnik and Laura Schulz, pp. 19–36. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Woodward, James F. 2008a. “Response to Strevens (2008).” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 77(1): 193–212.
Woodward, James F. 2008b. “Explanation.” in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science, edited by Stathis Psillos and Martin Curd, pp. 171–181. Routledge Philosophy Companions. London: Routledge.
Woodward, James F. 2008c. “Invariance, Modularity, and All That: Cartwright on Causation.” in Nancy Cartwright’s Philosophy of Science, edited by Stephan Hartmann, Carl Hoefer, and Luc Bovens, pp. 198–237. Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 3. London: Routledge.
Woodward, James F. 2008d. “Mental Causation and Neural Mechanisms.” in Being Reduced. New Essays on Reduction, Explanation, and Causation, edited by Jakob Hohwy and Jesper Kallestrup, pp. 218–262. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199211531.001.0001.
Woodward, James F. 2008e. “Causation and Manipulability.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2008/entries/causation-mani/.
Woodward, James F. 2009a. “Experimental Investigations of Social Preferences.” in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Economics, edited by Harold Kincaid and Don Ross, pp. 189–222. Oxford Handbooks. New York: Oxford University Press.
Woodward, James F. 2009b. “Agency and Interventionist Theories.” in The Oxford Handbook of Causation, edited by Helen Beebee, Christopher R. Hitchcock, and Peter Menzies, pp. 234–263. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199279739.001.0001.
Woodward, James F. 2009c. “Scientific Explanation.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2009/entries/scientific-explanation/.
Woodward, James F. 2010. “Causation in Biology: Stability, Specificity, and the Choice of Levels of Explanations.” Biology and Philosophy 25(3): 287–318, doi:10.1007/s10539-010-9200-z.
Woodward, James F. 2011a. “Causal Perception and Causal Cognition.” in Perception, Causation, and Objectivity, edited by Johannes Roessler, Hemdat Lerman, and Naomi Eilan, pp. 229–263. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199692040.001.0001.
Woodward, James F. 2011b. “Data and Phenomena: A Restatement and Defense.” Synthese 182(1): 165–179.
Woodward, James F. 2011c. “Mechanisms Revisited.” Synthese 183(3): 409–427.
Woodward, James F. 2011d. “Psychological Studies of Causal and Counterfactual Reasoning.” in Understanding Counterfactuals, Understanding Causation. Issues in Philosophy and Psychology, edited by Christoph Hoerl, Teresa McCormack, and Sarah R. Beck, pp. 16–53. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199590698.001.0001.
Woodward, James F. 2011e. “Counterfactuals all the way down? [comments on Lange (2009)].” Metascience 20(1): 27–33.
Woodward, James F. 2011f. “A Philosopher Looks at Tool Use and Causal Understanding.” in Tool Use and Causal Cognition, edited by Teresa McCormack, Christoph Hoerl, and Stephen A. Butterfill, pp. 18–50. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Woodward, James F. 2012. “Cooperation and Reciprocity: Empirical Evidence and Normative Implications.” in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Social Science, edited by Harold Kincaid, pp. 581–606. Oxford Handbooks. New York: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195392753.001.0001.
Woodward, James F. 2013a. “Mechanistic Explanation: Its Scope and Limits.” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume 87: 39–65.
Woodward, James F. 2013b. “Laws, Causes, and Invariance.” in Metaphysics and Science, edited by Stephen Mumford and Matthew Tugby, pp. 48–72. Mind Association Occasional Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199674527.001.0001.
Woodward, James F. 2014a. “Causal Reasoning: Philosophy and Experiment.” in Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy, volume I, pp. 294–324. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198718765.001.0001.
Woodward, James F. 2014b. “Scientific Explanation.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2014/entries/scientific-explanation/.
Woodward, James F. 2015a. “Scientific Explanation.” in Physical Theory. Method and Interpretation, edited by Lawrence Sklar, pp. 9–39. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195145649.001.0001.
Woodward, James F. 2015b. “Methodology, Ontology, and Interventionism.” Synthese 192(11): 3577–3599.
Woodward, James F. 2016a. “The Problem of Variable Choice.” Synthese 193(4): 1047–1072.
Woodward, James F. 2016b. “Unificationism, Explanatory Internalism, and Autonomy.” in The Philosophy of Philip Kitcher, edited by Mark B. Couch and Jessica Pfeifer, pp. 121–152. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199381357.001.0001.
Woodward, James F. 2016c. “Causation and Manipulability.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2016/entries/causation-mani/.
Woodward, James F. 2017a. “Interventionism and the Missing Metaphysics: A Dialogue.” in Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science. New Essays, edited by Matthew H. Slater and Zanja Yudell, pp. 193–228. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199363209.001.0001.
Woodward, James F. 2017b. “Intervening in the Exclusion Argument.” in Making a Difference. Essays on the Philosophy of Causation, edited by Helen Beebee, Christopher R. Hitchcock, and Huw Price, pp. 251–268. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780198746911.001.0001.
Woodward, James F. 2017c. “Explanation in Neurobiology: An Interventionist Perspective.” in Explanation and Integration in Mind and Brain Science, edited by David Michael Kaplan, pp. 70–100. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780199685509.001.0001.
Woodward, James F. 2018a. “Laws: An Invariance-Based Account.” in Laws of Nature, edited by Walter R. Ott and Lydia Patton, pp. 158–180. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780198746775.001.0001.
Woodward, James F. 2018b. “Some Varieties of Non-Causal Explanation.” in Explanation Beyond Causation. Philosophical Perspectives on Non-Causal Explanations, edited by Alexander Reutlinger and Juha Saatsi, pp. 117–139. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780198777946.001.0001.
Woodward, James F. 2021. Causation with a Human Face: Normative Theory and Descriptive Psychology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780197585412.001.0001.
Woodward, James F. 2023. “Causation and Manipulability.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2023/entries/causation-mani/.
Woodward, James F. and Cowie, Fiona. 2004. “The Mind is not (just) a System of Modules Shaped (just) by Natural Selection.” in Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Science, edited by Christopher R. Hitchcock, pp. 312–334. Contemporary Debates in Philosophy n. 2. Boston, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers.
Woodward, James F. and Hitchcock, Christopher R. 2002. “Explanatory Generalizations, Part I: A Counterfactual Account.” Noûs 36(1): 1–24.
Woodward, James F. and Ross, Lauren. 2021. “Scientific Explanation.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2021/entries/scientific-explanation/.

Further References

Christensen, Scott M. and Turner, Dale R., eds. 1993. Folk Psychology and the Philosophy of Mind. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
Greenwood, John D., ed. 1991. The Future of Folk Psychology: Intentionality and Cognitive Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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.
Pearl, Judea. 2000. Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Strevens, Michael. 2008. “Comments on Woodward, ‘Making Things Happen’ .” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 77(1): 171–192.