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According to Wikipedia, Paul Humphreys was a British professor of philosophy at the University of Virginia, specialising in philosophy of science, metaphysics, and epistemology. His interests included the metaphysics and epistemology of emergence, computational science, empiricism and realism.

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Extending Ourselves: Computational Science, Empiricism, and Scientific Method (2004) (531)
Emergence : contemporary readings in philosophy and science (2008) (307)
How Properties Emerge (1997) (306)
Philosophical Papers (2019) (301)
The philosophical novelty of computer simulation methods (2009) (233)
Emergence, Not Supervenience (1997) (161)
Theoretical Consequences of the Status Characteristics Formulation (1981) (97)
Are There Algorithms That Discover Causal Structure? (1999) (90)
Aspects of Emergence (1996) (86)
The Chances of Explanation: Causal Explanation in the Social, Medical, and Physical Sciences (1989) (86)
Impact of exposure to idealised male images on adolescent boys' body image. (2004) (73)
The chances of explanation (1989) (69)
Why Propensities Cannot Be Probabilities (1985) (65)
Synchronic and Diachronic Emergence (2008) (62)
Review: Nicholas Rescher, Plausible Reasoning. An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Plausibilistic Inference (1978) (60)
Emergence: A Philosophical Account (2016) (44)
Models, Simulations, and Representations (2011) (32)
Computational and Conceptual Emergence (2008) (31)
Scientific explanation: the causes, some of the causes, and nothing but the causes (1989) (30)
The Grand Leap1 (1996) (28)
Greater Unification equals Greater Understanding (1993) (26)
Some Considerations on Conditional Chances (2004) (24)
Abstract and Concrete@@@Nature's Capacities and Their Measurement. (1995) (22)
Dynamical Emergence and Computation: An Introduction (2008) (22)
Computational science and scientific method (1995) (21)
Dependent failures developments (1991) (19)
Computational Science and Its Effects (2019) (18)
Patrick Suppes: Scientific Philosopher (2012) (17)
Knowledge transfer across scientific disciplines. (2018) (16)
Computational Models (2002) (15)
Data about (2012) (14)
Scientific Ontology and Speculative Ontology (2013) (14)
Big Data, Thick Mediation, and Representational Opacity (2018) (13)
Mathematical Modeling in the Social Sciences (2008) (12)
Protecting rainforest realism (2010) (12)
CUTTING THE CAUSAL CHAIN (1980) (11)
The New Theory of Reference (1998) (10)
Numerical Experimentation (2019) (10)
Explanation as Condition Satisfaction (2014) (10)
Aleatory Explanations Expanded (1982) (9)
Models as mediators: perspectives on natural and social science (Ideas in context, Vol. 52) (2002) (9)
The New Theory of Reference: Kripke, Marcus, and its origins (1998) (9)
Introduction to Philosophical Perspectives on Emergence (2008) (7)
Is "Physical Randomness" Just Indeterminism in Disguise? (1978) (7)
Causation in the social sciences: An overview (1986) (7)
Data Analysis: Models or Techniques? (2013) (7)
Australian Aboriginal music (1981) (7)
Network Epistemology1 (2009) (6)
What Price Changing Laws of Nature? (2020) (6)
Inference, Method, and Decision: Towards a Bayesian Philosophy of Science (1980) (6)
Understanding in the Not-So-Special Sciences (1996) (5)
Self‐Assembling Systems (2006) (5)
Aleatory explanations (2019) (5)
A conjecture concerning the ranking of the sciences (1990) (5)
Probability and probabilistic causality (1994) (4)
Why Automated Science Should Be Cautiously Welcomed (2020) (4)
Quantitative Probabilistic Causality and Structural Scientific Realism (1984) (4)
Philosophy of physics, theory structure, and measurement theory (1994) (3)
Computer Simulations (1990) (3)
Causal, Experimental, and Structural Realisms (1988) (3)
Randomness, independence, and hypotheses (1977) (2)
Theories of causation and explanation: necessarily true or domain-specific? (2005) (2)
Philosophical Issues in the Scientific Basis of Quantitative Risk Analyses (1987) (2)
More is Different…Sometimes: Ising Models, Emergence, and Undecidability (2015) (2)
Analytic versus Synthetic Understanding (2019) (2)
Some Thoughts on Wesley Salmon’s Contributions to the Philosophy of Probability (2004) (2)
X-Ray Data and Empirical Content (2014) (2)
Some Logical Consequences of the Status Characteristics Theory (2015) (2)
Time, Rhythm, and Silence：A Phenomenology of the Buddhist Accelerating Roll (1991) (2)
Probabilistic Causality and Multiple Causation (1980) (2)
Epistemología del siglo XXI (2007) (2)
Basic Features of Emergence (2016) (1)
Probability Theory and Its Models (2008) (1)
Non-Nietzschean Decision Making (1988) (1)
Design Defences Against Multiple Related Failures (1989) (1)
Explanation, Understanding, Ontology, and Social Dynamics (2019) (1)
Invariances in transformational emergence (2020) (1)
Protecting rainforest realism James Ladyman , Don Ross : Everything must go : metaphysics naturalized (2010) (1)
The Seventh International Conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology (2011) (1)
CHAPTER TWO. Probabilistic Causation (1992) (0)
Back Matter (1990) (0)
Templates, Opacity, and Simulations (2019) (0)
Strategy Moves20063Jorge A. Vasconcellos e Sá. Strategy Moves. Harlow: Pearson 2005. 212 pp., ISBN: 0‐273‐70167‐3 £21.99 Hardback (2006) (0)
Scientific Topics Related to Emergence (2016) (0)
Models, Mathematics, and Measurement: A Review of Reconstructing Reality by Margaret Morrison (2016) (0)
CHAPTER ONE. Traditional Causation (1992) (0)
APPENDIX ONE. Covariance Measures (1992) (0)
APPENDIX THREE. Transitivity and Negative Links (1992) (0)
Book review (1986) (0)
Editorial preface (2005) (0)
Reviewers of Volume 12 (2006) (0)
Ground and surface water interaction near a plywood manufacturing facility on the Lake Roosevelt shoreline, Kettle Falls, Washington (1998) (0)
Philosophical Topics Related to Emergence (2016) (0)
Grace Becomes Us Reflections on the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises from a Buddhist Perspective (2015) (0)
Introduction to Background and Polemics (2008) (0)
Analysis Procedures for Identification of MRF’s (1989) (0)
Island Dreams: Songs and Lullabies Carried on the Wind (review) (2007) (0)
Ancestors and Relatives (2016) (0)
Conceptual Sea Changes (2010) (0)
Consensus Institute Staff (1990) (0)
Book Reviews : Jon Elster, Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989. Pp. viii, US$34.50 (cloth), US$9.95 (paper (1991) (0)
An Occasion for Celebration (2010) (0)
Germany, Status of Mass Media (2003) (0)
Probability and Propensities (2019) (0)
Invariances in transformational emergence (2020) (0)
Chapter four. Scientific explanations (1992) (0)
APPENDIX TWO. Extension of the Basic Quantitative Theory (1992) (0)
MRF’s from the Analysis of Component Data (1989) (0)
Women in North American Indian Music: Six Essays. RICHARD KEELING, ed (1991) (0)
Observation and Reliable Detection (1999) (0)
3 Scienti fi c Ontology and Speculative Ontology (2012) (0)
Language, logic, and psychology (1994) (0)
The Tradition of Song Renewal Among the Pueblo Indians of North America (1982) (0)
Causation and Reduction (2009) (0)
Hans Reichenbach: Logical Empiricist. Wesley Salmon (1982) (0)
What Simulations Can Do That Experiments Cannot, And Vice Versa (2010) (0)
Emergence (2019) (0)
Introduction (2019) (0)
Endogenous Uncertainty and the Dynamics of Constraints (2019) (0)
Introduction to Scientific Perspectives on Emergence (2008) (0)
CHAPTER THREE. Cause and Chance (1992) (0)
Data Analysis: Models or Techniques? (2012) (0)

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