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James F. Woodward's Published Works

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Published Works

Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World (1988) (2289)
Biological invasions as global environmental change (1996) (2133)
Making Things Happen: A Theory of Causal Explanation (2003) (801)
Saving the phenomena (1988) (778)
Causation in biology: stability, specificity, and the choice of levels of explanation (2010) (361)
Independence, Invariance and the Causal Markov Condition (1999) (343)
What Is a Mechanism? A Counterfactual Account (2002) (307)
Explanation and Invariance in the Special Sciences (2000) (280)
Folk psychology is here to stay (1985) (242)
Explanatory Generalizations, Part I: A Counterfactual Account (2003) (239)
Explanatory generalizations, part II: Plumbing explanatory depth (2003) (166)
Mental Causation and Neural Mechanisms (2008) (150)
Sensitive and Insensitive Causation (2006) (144)
Explanation, Invariance, and Intervention (1997) (140)
The Blackwell Reader in Pastoral and Practical Theology (2000) (136)
The Non-Identity Problem (1986) (124)
Interventionism and Causal Exclusion (2015) (101)
Law and Explanation in Biology: Invariance Is the Kind of Stability That Matters (2001) (101)
Just do it? Investigating the gap between prediction and action in toddlers’ causal inferences (2010) (99)
Causation With a Human Face (2007) (93)
There is No Such Thing as a Ceteris Paribus Law (2002) (89)
The problem of variable choice (2016) (84)
A theory of singular causal explanation (1984) (82)
Modularity and the Causal Markov Condition: A Restatement (2004) (79)
Data, Phenomena, and Reliability (2000) (76)
Moral intuition: Its neural substrates and normative significance (2007) (74)
Interventionist Theories of Causation in Psychological Perspective (2007) (74)
Response to Strevens (2008) (71)
Emotional and Utilitarian Appraisals of Moral Dilemmas Are Encoded in Separate Areas and Integrated in Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex (2015) (71)
Mechanistic Explanation: Its Scope and Limits (2014) (65)
II—James Woodward: Mechanistic Explanation: Its Scope and Limits (2013) (65)
The Structure and Dynamics of Scientific Theories: A Hierarchical Bayesian Perspective* (2010) (64)
Causal models in the social sciences (2007) (54)
Observations, Theories and the Evolution of the Human Spirit (1992) (51)
Agency and Interventionist Theories (2009) (48)
Cause and Explanation in Psychiatry: An Interventionist Perspective (2008) (44)
Psychologial Studies of Causal and Counterfactual Reasoning (2008) (42)
A Functional Account of Causation; or, A Defense of the Legitimacy of Causal Thinking by Reference to the Only Standard That Matters—Usefulness (as Opposed to Metaphysics or Agreement with Intuitive Judgment) (2014) (39)
Counterfactuals and Causal Explanation (2004) (39)
Conduct, Misconduct and the Structure of Science (1996) (38)
Methodology, ontology, and interventionism (2015) (36)
Book Review: Funerals and How to Improve Them (1991) (36)
Simplicity in the Best Systems Account of Laws of Nature (2014) (35)
Some Varieties of Non-Causal Explanation (2018) (35)
Explanatory autonomy: the role of proportionality, stability, and conditional irrelevance (2018) (34)
Realism about laws (1992) (32)
WHAT ARE MORAL INTUITIONS AND WHY SHOULD WE CARE ABOUT THEM? A NEUROBIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE* (2008) (31)
Manipulation and the Causal Markov Condition (2004) (30)
A Philosopher Looks at Tool Use and Causal Understanding (2011) (27)
Koch's postulates: An interventionist perspective. (2016) (26)
Evading the IRS (1993) (25)
Causal Independence and Faithfulness. (1998) (23)
Causation: Interactions between Philosophical Theories and Psychological Research (2012) (23)
Understanding Regression (1988) (20)
Data, Phenomena, Signal, and Noise (2010) (20)
Causal Perception and Causal Cognition (2008) (18)
A Vision of Pastoral Theology (1994) (18)
The causal mechanical model of explanation (1989) (17)
The Mind is Not (Just) a System of Modules Shaped (Just) by Natural Selection (2004) (17)
Interventionism and the Missing Metaphysics (2017) (16)
Causation and Explanation in Econometrics (1995) (16)
Invariance (2021) (15)
Causation in Science (2016) (15)
Invariance , Modularity , and All That : Cartwright on Causation (2003) (14)
Causal Responsibility and Robust Causation (2020) (14)
Reply to Parfit (1987) (13)
Emotion versus Cognition in Moral Decision-Making (2016) (13)
A Counterfactual Theory of Causal Explanation (2004) (12)
Supervenience and Singular Causal Statements (1990) (11)
Book Review: In Living Colour (1998) (11)
Practical Theology In Action (1997) (11)
Social Preferences in Experimental Economics (2008) (10)
Experimental Investigations of Social Preferences (2009) (10)
Explanatory Asymmetries (1984) (10)
Laws, Causes, and Invariance (2011) (10)
A Functional Account of Causation (2014) (9)
Intervening in the Exclusion Argument (2014) (9)
Laws: An Invariance- Based Account (2018) (9)
Supervenience and Singular Causal Claims (1991) (9)
Physical modality, laws, and counterfactuals (2017) (8)
Flagpoles anyone? Causal and explanatory asymmetries (2020) (8)
Just do it? Toddlers' ability to integrate prediction and action (2010) (7)
Causal Complexity, Conditional Independence, and Downward Causation (2020) (7)
CRITICAL NOTICE: CAUSALITY BY JUDEA PEARL (2003) (6)
Laws and Causes (1990) (6)
Why do People Cooperate as Much as They Do (2008) (6)
Explanation in Neurobiology: An Interventionist Perspective (2014) (6)
Embracing the chaos : theological responses to AIDS (1990) (6)
Critical review: Horwich on the ravens, projectability and induction (1985) (5)
Are Singular Causal Explanations Implicit Covering-Law Explanations? (1986) (5)
Causation and Manipulation (2004) (5)
Causal Judgment: What Can Philosophy Learn from Experiment? What Can it Contribute to Experiment? (2019) (4)
Book Review: Responses to 101 Questions on Death and Eternal Life (1998) (4)
Levels: What Are They and What Are They Good For? (2020) (4)
Conundrums in practical theology (2017) (4)
Explanation in Neurobiology (2018) (4)
Counterfactuals in the Real World (2019) (4)
Downward Causation and Levels (2021) (3)
Getting Things Right (2004) (3)
On an Information-Theoretic Model of Explanation (1987) (3)
Unificationism, Explanatory Internalism, and Autonomy (2016) (3)
Book Review: Why Do Christians Find It Hard to Grieve? (1998) (2)
Downward Causation Defended (2021) (2)
Remixing The Church: Towards an Emerging Ecclesiology by Doug Gay, SCM, 2011 (ISBN 978-0-3340-4396-6), 133 pp., £17.99 (2013) (2)
Causal Cognition: Physical Connections, Proportionality, and the Role of Normative Theory (2015) (2)
The storied self: a narrative approach to the spiritual care of the aged (2020) (2)
Causal Reasoning: Philosophy and Experiment (2014) (2)
Book Review:What Is a Law of Nature? D. M. Armstrong (1985) (2)
Data, phenomena, and reliability : Experiment and Conceptual Change (2000) (2)
Causal Interpretation in Structural Models (2004) (1)
Commentary: from handles to interventions. Commentary on R G Collingwood, 'the so-called idea of causation'. (2014) (1)
Book Review:The Chances of Explanation: Causal Explanation in the Social, Medical and Physical Sciences Paul Humphreys (1993) (1)
Scientific Explanation (1979) (1)
Top-down causation in psychiatric disorders: a clinical-philosophical inquiry (2021) (1)
Book Review: Counselling in Context (1999) (1)
Interventionism and the Missing Metaphysics: A Dialog (2014) (1)
Book Review: John Rodwell and Peter Manley Scott (eds), At Home in the Future: Place and Belonging in a Changing Europe (2018) (1)
A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution. By Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011. Pp. xii, 262. $35.00, hardcover (2012) (1)
Cooperation and Reciprocity: Empirical Evidence and Normative Implications (2012) (1)
Book Review:Data, Instruments, and Theory: A Dialectical Approach to Understanding Science Robert John Ackermann (1986) (1)
Emotion Versus Cognition in Moral Decision-Making: A Dubious Dichotomy (2014) (1)
Normative Theory and Descriptive Psychology in Understanding Causal Reasoning: The Role of Interventions and Invariance (2015) (1)
The Spirituality of Older People: A Narrative Approach (2011) (1)
Interventions, Agency, and Counterfactuals (2004) (1)
Book Review: One New Humanity: The Challenge of AIDS (1997) (0)
Book Review: Just Good Friends (1996) (0)
Book Review: Pastoral Care Revisited (1997) (0)
Book Review: Sexual Integrity (1988) (0)
The Impact of Informed Intervention (2020) (0)
Book Review: AIDS (1989) (0)
Paternalism. Rolf Sartorius (1985) (0)
Book Review: Faith in Hospices (2003) (0)
JUSTICE AND RECIPROCITY: THE CASE FOR NONIDEAL THEORY (2016) (0)
Book Review: Shame (2002) (0)
Justice and the Structure of Reciprocity: How Empirical Results Can Inform Normative Theory (2011) (0)
Explanation in Social Theory: Comments on Alan Nelson (1986) (0)
Book Review: Dying and Grieving: A Guide to Pastoral Ministry (2004) (0)
Book Review: The Long Pale Corridor, ed. Judy Benson and Agnetta Falk (Bloodaxe 1996), 320 pp, £8.95 pbk; Stopping for Death: Poems of Death or Loss, ed. Carol Ann Duffy (Viking 1996), 133 pp, £8.99 pbk (1997) (0)
Causal Explanation: Background and Criticism (2004) (0)
Heroes and Villains – By Mike Alsford (2008) (0)
Books Received (2002) (0)
Richard: The Person and the Bishop 1 (2017) (0)
Stewards of the Gospel: Reforming Theological Education by Ronald E. Vallet, Eerdmans, 2011 (ISBN 978-0-8028-6616-5), 309 pp, pb $32 (2014) (0)
Book Review: Good News in Exile (1999) (0)
Exchange on Spohn's Laws of Belief (2019) (0)
Book Review: AIDS: A Christian Handbook (1992) (0)
Book reviews (2005) (0)
The physiology of truth - Neuroscience and human knowledge [Book Review] (2004) (0)
Elizabeth MacKinlay, Spiritual Growth and Care in the Fourth Age of Life , Jessica Kingsley, London, 2006, 272 pp., pbk £17.99, ISBN 1 84310 231 5. (2007) (0)
Book Review: Recognising Spiritual Needs in People Who Are Dying (2005) (0)
Reflecting Theologically on AIDS, A Global Challenge – By Robin Gill (2009) (0)
Book Review: Beyond the Blue Mountains: Wisdom and Compassion on Living and Dying (2000) (0)
The problem of variable choice (2015) (0)
On Wolfgang Spohn’s Laws of Belief (2019) (0)
Fiona Stewart-Darling, Multifaith Chaplaincy in the Workplace: How Chaplains Can Support Organizations and their Employees (2018) (0)
Aids—The Crisis and the Opportunities (1990) (0)
Encountering Illness: Voices in Pastoral and Theological perspective (2011) (0)
Book Review: Spirituality and the Practice of Health Care (2004) (0)
Book Review: A Double Thirst (2002) (0)
Derrel Watkins (ed.), Practical Theology for Aging, Haworth Pastoral Press, New York, 2003, 225 pp., pbk $24.95, ISBN 0 7890 2227 3. (2005) (0)
The Nature of Explanation. Peter Achinstein (1985) (0)
The Causal Mechanical and Unificationist Models of Explanation (2004) (0)
Book Review: First Aid in Pastoral Care (1988) (0)
Book Review: On Sight and Insight (1998) (0)
Book Review: Naming the Silences (1996) (0)
Global Theology: The Meaning of Faith in the Present World Crisis. By Rex Ambler. London, SCM Press, 1990. Pp. 90. £4.95. (1993) (0)
Book Review: Before I Die Again (1993) (0)
Scientific Explanation and Sklar's Views of Space and Time (1979) (0)
Physical modality, laws, and counterfactuals (2017) (0)
Book Review: Frits de Lange, Loving Later Life: An Ethics of Aging (2017) (0)
Land Grant Application- Woodward, James (Bowdoinham) (2017) (0)
BCS Impact Report Winter 2020 (2020) (0)
Some Empirical Results Concerning Causal Learning and Representation (2021) (0)
Modeling interventions in multi-level causal systems: supervenience, exclusion and underdetermination (2022) (0)
Invariance Applied (2021) (0)
Marc Lange: Laws and lawmakers: Science, metaphysics, and the laws of nature. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009, 280 pp, $99 HB, $24.95 PB (2011) (0)
Reimagining the Theology of Old Age (2016) (0)
Book Review: Hospital Chaplaincy (2002) (0)
Book Review: Sexuality and the Sacred (1995) (0)
One Foot in Heaven: Growing Older and Living to the Full, Michael Hare Duke (SPCK 2001), 120 pp, £7.99 pbk; Going against the Stream: Ethical Aspects of Ageing and Care, Peter Jeffery (Gracewing 2001), 282 pp, £14.99 pbk (2003) (0)
Pastoral Work with the Dying (1987) (0)
Book Review: Helplessness and Hope (1987) (0)
Causal Attribution, Counterfactuals, and Disease Interventions (2019) (0)
Explanatory autonomy: the role of proportionality, stability, and conditional irrelevance (2018) (0)
Developmental explanation (2004) (0)
Causation and Bayesian Networks-Manipulation and the Causal Markov Condition (2004) (0)
There is No Such Thing as Statistical Explanation 1 (2022) (0)
1. Not a Sure Thing: Fitness, Probability, and Causation Not a Sure Thing: Fitness, Probability, and Causation (pp. 147-171) (2010) (0)
Flexible Church: Being the Church in the Contemporary World, written by Helen D. Morris, (2019) (2020) (0)
Book Review: Ritual and Pastoral Care (1989) (0)
Victoria Slater, Chaplaincy Ministry and the Mission of the Church (2016) (0)
Elizabeth MacKinlay (ed.), Ageing, Disability and Spirituality: Addressing the Challenge of Disability in Later Life , Jessica Kingsley, London, 2008, 272 pp., pbk £19.99, ISBN 13: 978 1 84310 584 8. (2009) (0)
How do causes depend on us ? The many faces of perspectivalism (2016) (0)
Book Review: Soul Survivor (2002) (0)
Book Review: A Dignified Dying (1996) (0)
Book Review: AIDS and its Metaphors (1989) (0)
Book Review: Christian B. Miller, The Character Gap: How Good Are We? (2020) (0)
Book Review: Theology and Practice (1991) (0)
Beyond the Blue Mountains: Wisdom and Compassion on Living and Dying, Elizabeth Basset (Medio Media 1999), 27)6 pp, £12.00 hbk., (1999) (0)
A great commercial city (2011) (0)
Book Review: Drugs and Pastoral Care (1999) (0)
Book Review: ‘You'Il Get Over It’ (1997) (0)

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