Stathis Psillos
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Greek philosopher and university professor
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Stathis Psillos is a Greek philosopher of science. He is Professor of Philosophy of Science and Metaphysics at the University of Athens, Greece and a member of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy of the University of Western Ontario. In 2013–15, he held the Rotman Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Science at the University of Western Ontario, Canada.
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Published Works
- Scientific Realism: How Science Tracks Truth (1999) (1190)
- Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Science (2008) (292)
- Causation and Explanation (2002) (151)
- Simply the Best: A Case for Abduction (2002) (123)
- Is Structural Realism Possible (2001) (108)
- A Glimpse of the Secret Connexion: Harmonizing Mechanisms with Counterfactuals (2004) (96)
- On Van Fraassen's Critique of Abductive Reasoning (1996) (92)
- The Structure, the Whole Structure, and Nothing but the Structure? (2006) (90)
- Knowing the Structure of Nature: Essays on Realism and Explanation (2009) (76)
- Knowing the Structure of Nature (2009) (76)
- The present state of the scientific realism debate (2000) (73)
- Scientific Realism and the 'Pessimistic Induction' (1996) (71)
- An Explorer upon Untrodden Ground: Peirce on Abduction (2011) (70)
- The Fine Structure of Inference to the Best Explanation (2007) (69)
- Studies in Scientific Realism (2001) (63)
- A philosophical study of the transition from the caloric theory of heat to thermodynamics: Resisting the pessimistic meta-induction (1994) (56)
- Rudolf Carnap's `Theoretical Concepts in Science' (2000) (53)
- Living with the abstract: realism and models (2011) (51)
- Putting a Bridle on Irrationality: An Appraisal of van Fraassen's New Epistemology (2004) (46)
- Philosophy of Science A–Z (2007) (44)
- Grasping At Realist Straws (2009) (43)
- What Do Powers Do When They Are Not Manifested (2006) (42)
- Causation and Explanation: Frontmatter (2002) (38)
- Cambridge and Vienna: Frank P. Ramsey and the Vienna Circle (2006) (38)
- Choosing the realist framework (2011) (37)
- Moving Molecules Above the Scientific Horizon: On Perrin’s Case for Realism (2011) (36)
- Inference to the Best Explanation and Bayesianism (2004) (35)
- Carnap, the Ramsey-Sentence and Realistic Empiricism (2000) (34)
- Scientific Realism and Metaphysics (2005) (31)
- Thinking About the Ultimate Argument for Realism (2006) (29)
- Abduction: Between Conceptual Richness and Computational Complexity (2000) (29)
- Ramsey’s Ramsey-sentences (2006) (29)
- Is Structural Realism Possible? (2001) (26)
- How Not to Defend Constructive Empiricism: a Rejoinder (1997) (23)
- How to do things with theories: an interactive view of language and models in science (2007) (22)
- Theories of Scientific Method (2003) (22)
- What is General Philosophy of Science? (2012) (19)
- Adding Modality to Ontic Structuralism: An Exploration and Critique (2012) (18)
- Past and Contemporary Perspectives on Explanation (2007) (18)
- Making Contact with Molecules: On Perrin and Achinstein (2011) (17)
- Scientific Realism: Between Platonism and Nominalism (2010) (17)
- Models as Mediators. Perspectives on Natural and Social Science, Mary S. Morgan and Margaret Morrison (eds.). Cambridge University Press, 1999, xi + 401 pages. (2001) (16)
- Regularities, Natural Patterns and Laws of Nature (2014) (16)
- The idea of mechanism (2011) (15)
- Predictive Similarity and the Success of Science: A Reply to Stanford (2001) (14)
- Tracking the Real: Through Thick and Thin (2004) (14)
- Kitcher on reference (1997) (13)
- Cartwright’s Realist Toil: From Entities to Capacities (2009) (13)
- A Metaphysics For Scientific Realism: Knowing The Unobservable (2009) (12)
- Agnostic empiricism versus scientific realism: Belief in truth matters (2000) (12)
- The Scope and Limits of the No Miracles Argument1 (2011) (12)
- Scientific Realism and the Rationality of Science (2009) (12)
- In Defense of Methodological Mechanism: The Case of Apoptosis (2017) (12)
- Conventions and Relations in Poincaré’s Philosophy of Science (2014) (12)
- Perception, Realism and the Problem of Reference: Causal descriptivism and the reference of theoretical terms (2012) (11)
- Salt does dissolve in water, but not necessarily (2002) (11)
- The View from Within and the View from Above: Looking at van Fraassen’s Perrin (2014) (11)
- Evidence: wanted, alive or dead (2015) (10)
- On Reichenbach’s argument for scientific realism (2011) (10)
- CAUSAL EXPLANATION AND MANIPULATION (2007) (10)
- Broken structuralism (2016) (9)
- The Realist Turn in the Philosophy of Science (2016) (9)
- No laws and (thin) powers in, no (governing) laws out (2020) (9)
- Naturalism without truth (1997) (8)
- THE A PRIORI : BETWEEN CONVENTIONS AND IMPLICIT DEFINITIONS (2008) (8)
- Having Science in View: General Philosophy of Science and its Significance (2015) (7)
- Scientific realism: quo vadis? Introduction: new thinking about scientific realism (2017) (7)
- Tolstoy’s argument: realism and the history of science (2018) (7)
- Rights from wrongs (1996) (7)
- ANTI-NOMINALISTIC SCIENTIFIC REALISM : A DEFENCE (2011) (7)
- Semirealism or Neo-Aristotelianism? (2013) (7)
- Laws and Powers in the Frame of Nature (2018) (7)
- Causation and Explanation: Explanation of laws (2002) (6)
- Induction and Natural Necessity in the Middle Ages (2015) (6)
- Carnap and Incommensurability (2008) (6)
- Scientifi c Realism with a Humean Face * (2011) (5)
- Mechanisms, counterfactuals and laws (2016) (5)
- Resisting scientific anti-realism (2020) (5)
- What Powers Are Not (2016) (5)
- Rani Lill Anjum & Stephen Mumford What Tends to Be: the Philosophy of Dispositional Modality. London & New York: Routledge, hbk pp. x+193 (2019) (5)
- Principles of Motion and the Absence of Laws of Nature in Hobbes’s Natural Philosophy (2019) (5)
- Induction and Natural Necessities (2017) (4)
- Of Realist Turns: A Conversation with Stathis Psillos (2012) (3)
- World-involving Scientific Understanding (2017) (3)
- One cannot be just a little bit realist (2021) (3)
- Causation and Explanation: Causation and mechanism (2002) (3)
- Mechanisms in practice: A methodological approach. (2018) (2)
- Causation and Explanation: Deductive–nomological explanation (2002) (2)
- The Inherence and Directedness of Powers (2021) (2)
- Henk W. de Regt, Sabina Leonelli, Kai Eigner (Eds.), Scientific Understanding: Philosophical Perspectives. University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh (2009). 352 pp., Hardback, $65.00, ISBN 978-0-8229-4378-5 (2012) (2)
- Karl Popper , The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality . Reviewed by (1995) (2)
- Scientific Ontology: Fact or Stance? (2021) (2)
- Relativism and scientific realism (2019) (2)
- In defence of scientific realism (2005) (2)
- Regularities All the Way Down: Thomas Brown’s Philosophy of Causation: Stathis Psillos (2011) (2)
- Having Science in View (2016) (2)
- Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science, Second Edition (2013) (2)
- Scientific Realism and the Mind-Independence of the World (2017) (2)
- Empiricism and theoretical discourse (2005) (1)
- Against Cognitive Instrumentalism (2020) (1)
- Resisting the pessimistic induction (2005) (1)
- Governing Laws and the Inference Problem (2021) (1)
- Author’s response (2001) (1)
- From the Evidence of History to the History of Evidence (2021) (1)
- NOA, cognitive perfection and entity realism (2005) (1)
- 1. Reason and Science (2013) (1)
- Causation and Explanation: Causation and counterfactuals (2002) (1)
- Duhem Anti-Scepticism and Epistemic Humility in Pierre Duhem ’ s Philosophy of Science (2017) (1)
- Counterfactual Reasoning, Qualitative: Philosophical Aspects (2015) (1)
- Authors Index Volume 3 (2001) (1)
- How to Handle Reasonable Scientific Disagreement: The Case of COVID-19 (2022) (1)
- Is The History of Science the Wasteland of False Theories (2011) (1)
- Systematicity Without Epistemic Warrant? (2018) (1)
- Constructive empiricism scrutinised (2005) (1)
- 1 Theories of Scientific Method Models for the Physico-Mathematical Sciences (2012) (0)
- Fred Wilson , The Logic And Methodology of Science in Early Modern Thought . Reviewed by (2000) (0)
- Transparency, Values and Trust in Science (2022) (0)
- Relations in the Metaphysics of Science (2022) (0)
- Notes on Induction , Probability and Confirmation (2012) (0)
- ories. That most of the theories that have ever been accepted were false is inevitably more plausible than the needed premiss: that at most past (2016) (0)
- Resisting scientific anti-realism (2020) (0)
- Value and abstraction in Marx’s Capital (2019) (0)
- Yemina Ben-Menahem, Conventionalism: From Poincaré to Quine . Reviewed by (2007) (0)
- Against Neo-Instrumentalism (2009) (0)
- Mechanisms, counterfactuals and laws 1 (2017) (0)
- Causation and Explanation: Hume on causation (2002) (0)
- Mechanisms, Then and Now: From Metaphysics to Practice (2019) (0)
- Causal Necessitation and Dispositional Modality (2020) (0)
- 1. Preface Preface (pp. i-ii) (2006) (0)
- Introduction (2021) (0)
- Causal Necessitation and Dispositional Modality (2020) (0)
- First Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association, 14–17 November, Madrid, Spain (2008) (0)
- Editorial (2014) (0)
- Friedrich Stadler (ed.): The present situation in the philosophy of science. Dordrecht: Springer, 2010, 422pp, €139,95 HB (2011) (0)
- Causation and Explanation: The regularity view of laws (2002) (0)
- How to be a Scientific Realist: A Proposal to Empiricists (2007) (0)
- Idealism and science (2021) (0)
- Anjan Chakravartty .A Metaphysics for Scientific Realism: Knowing the Unobservable. xvi + 272 pp., figs., tables, index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. £45 (cloth). (2009) (0)
- The deductive-nomological model of explanation (2021) (0)
- Review: Critical Scientific Realism (2002) (0)
- What if there are laws of nature? Reflections on van Fraassen’s Laws and Symmetry (2019) (0)
- Causation and Explanation: Preface (2002) (0)
- Can Science Discover the Truth about Reality? (2020) (0)
- True stories (1998) (0)
- The Scope and Power of Abstraction in Science (2020) (0)
- 1 ABDUCTION : BETWEEN CONCEPTUAL RICHNESS AND COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY (2011) (0)
- Book Reviews (2004) (0)
- Causal inference and probability in the physical sciences (2004) (0)
- Causation and Explanation: References (2002) (0)
- What is General Philosophy of Science? (2012) (0)
- The Next Best Thing: Causation and Regularity (2007) (0)
- Carnap's Realistic Empiricism? (1997) (0)
- Michael Dummett: The nature and future of philosophy. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010, vi+152pp, $19.95 PB (2011) (0)
- Causation and Explanation: Statistical explanation (2002) (0)
- Causation and Explanation: The metaphysics of explanation (2002) (0)
- Mechanistic Causation: Difference-Making is Enough (2019) (0)
- Reference of theoretical terms (2005) (0)
- Causation and Explanation: Alternative approaches to laws (2002) (0)
- Scientific realism: quo vadis? Introduction: new thinking about scientific realism (2017) (0)
- 10. Can Philosophy Offer Help in Resolving Contemporary Biological Controversies (2006) (0)
- Systematicity Without Epistemic Warrant? (2017) (0)
- Causation and Explanation: Regularities and singular causation (2002) (0)
- What if there are laws of nature? Reflections on van Fraassen’s Laws and Symmetry (2019) (0)
- Causation and Explanation: Notes (2002) (0)
- Forthcoming Volumes in the Philosophy A-Z Series (2016) (0)
- Philosophy of Language and the Challenge to Scientific Realism. By Christopher Norris (2005) (0)
- How Does Philosophy of Science Make a Difference in the World We Live In (2017) (0)
- In Defense of Methodological Mechanism: The Case of Apoptosis (2017) (0)
- The feminist approach to the philosophy of science CASSANDRA L. PINNICk (2008) (0)
- Induction and Natural Necessities (2017) (0)
- Semirealism or Neo-Aristotelianism? (2012) (0)
- "The New Mechanical Philosophy" by Stuart Glennan (2018) (0)
- Book Review (2002) (0)
- Positivism and Logical Positivism (2021) (0)
- Broken structuralism (2015) (0)
- STATHIS PSILLOS THINKING ABOUT THE ULTIMATE ARGUMENT FOR REALISM 1 (2003) (0)
- Causation and Explanation: Laws as relations among universals (2002) (0)
- Causation and Explanation: Introduction (2002) (0)
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