N.B.: The Chronological Bibliography lists only the first appearance in print of every writing. For any further information please refer to the Annotated Bibliography.

 

1952

 

  1. 'Boole’s philosophy of logic', Annals of Science, 3: (1952), 61-81.
  2. 'Operational definition and analogy in physical theories', The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2:X (xxx, 1952), 281-294.

 

1953

 

    'Models in physics', The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 4:x (xxx1953), 198-214.

 

1954

 

    Science and the Human Imagination: Aspects of the History and Logic of Physical Science, SCM Press: London 1954, 171 pp.

 

1955

 

    'Action at a distance in classical physics', Isis, 46 (1955), 337-353.

 

1958

 

  1. 'Theories, dictionaries and observation', The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 9: (1958), 12-28.
  2. 'A note on 'Theories, dictionaries and observation'', The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 9: (1958), 128-129.

 

1959

 

    'On defining analogy', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 40: (1959), 79-100.

 

1960

 

    'Gilbert and the historians', The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 9: (1960), 1-10 and 130-142.

 

1961

 

    Forces and Fields: A Study of Action at a Distance in the History of Physics, Thomas Nelson and Sons: London 1961, x+318 pp.

 

1962

 

  1. 'History of physics', American Oxford Encyclopedia, Vol. III (1962).
  2. 'Subjunctive conditionals II', Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume, 36 (1962), 201-214.
  3. 'Models and Matter' in Quanta and Reality, S. E. Toulmin (ed.), London 1962, pp. 49-57.
  4. 'On what there is in physics', Essay Review [R. Harré, Theories and Things, Sheed and Ward: London 1961], The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 12: (1962), 234-244.
  5. 'History and philosophy of science in the early Natural Sciences Tripos', Cambridge Review, 84 (1962), 140-145.

 

1963

 

  1. Models and Analogies in Science, Sheed and Ward: London 1963, 150 pp.
  2. Critical notice of E. Nagel: The Structure of Science, Mind, vol. lxxii (1963), 429-441.
  3. 'Measurement in science', Essay Review [Quantification: A History of the Meaning of Measurement in the Natural and Social Sciences, Harry Woolf (ed.), Bobbs-Merrill: Indianapolis (Ind.)], History of Science, vol. ii (1963), 152-155.
  4. 'A new look at scientific explanation', Review of Metaphysics, vol. xvii (1963), 98-108.
  5. 'Action at a Distance' in The Concept of Matter, E. McMullin (ed.), University of Notre Dame Press: Notre Dame (Ind.) 1963, pp. 372-390.
  6. Commentary on C. C. Gillespie: 'Intellectual actors in the background of analysis by probabilities' in Scientific Change, A. C. Crombie (ed.), Heinemann: London and Basic Books: New York 1963, pp. 471-476.
  7. 'Analogy and confirmation theory', Dialectica, vol. xvii (1963), 284-295.
  8. Essay Review [T. S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, The University of Chicago Press: Chicago 1962], Isis, vol. liv (1963), 286-287.

 

1964

 

  1. 'Francis Bacon' in A Critical History of Western Philosophy, D. J. O’Connor (ed.), Free Press of Glencoe: New York and Macmillan: London 1964, pp. 141-152.
  2. 'Hooke’s development of Bacon’s method' in Proceedings of the X International Congress of the History of Science, Paris 1964, pp. 265-258.
  3. 'Philosophical foundations of classical mechanics', Resource Letter, American Journal of Physics, vol. xxxii (December 1964), 905-911.
  4. 'Induction and theory-structure', Review of Metaphysics, vol. xix (1964), 109-122.
  5. 'Changing views of matter', Essay Review [The Concept of Matter, Ernan McMullin (ed.), University of Notre Dame Press: Notre Dame (Ind.) 1963], History of Science, vol. iii (1964), 79-84.
  6. 'Analogy and confirmation theory', Philosophy of Science, vol. xxxi (1964), 319-327.

 

1965

 

  1. 'The Explanatory Function of Metaphor' in Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science II: Proceedings of the Second International Congress for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Y. Bar-Hillel (ed.), North-Holland, Amsterdam 1966, pp. 249-259.
  2. 'Statistical methods for inductive logic', Cambridge Research, vol. i (1965), 27-30.
  3. 'Miracles and the Laws of Nature' in Miracles, C. F. D. Moule (ed.), A. R. Mowbray & Co., London 1965, pp. 33-42.
  4. Essay Review [Philosophy of Science: The Delaware Seminar, Vol. I: 1961-1962, B. Baumin (ed.), John Wiley (Interscience), New York and London 1962], Philosophical Quarterly, vol. xv (1965), 87-89.
  5. 'Aristotle’s logic of analogy', Philosophical Quarterly, vol. xv (1964), 328-340.

 

1966

 

  1. 'Hooke’s philosophical algebra', Isis, vol. lvii (1966), 67-83.
  2. Models and Analogies in Science, Notre Dame University Press, Notre Dame (Ind.), 1966, pp. 184.

 

1967

 

  1. 'Galileo and the conflict of realism and empiricism' in Atti del Symposium Internazionale di Storia, Metodologia, Logica e Filosofia della Scienza, Gruppo Italiano di Storia delle Scienze, Vinci, pp. 283-28(7)9.
  2. 'Induction, Confirmation, and Philosophical Method', Essay review [Mind, Matter, and Method. Essays in honour of H. Feigl, P. K. Feyerabend and G. Maxwell (eds), part II, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis (Minn.) 1966], British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, vol. xviii (1967), pp. 330-335.
  3. 'Action at a distance and field theory' in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, P. Edwards (ed.), Macmillan, New York 1967, vol. i, pp. 9-15.
  4. 'Ether' in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, P. Edwards (ed.), Macmillan, New York 1967, vol. iii, pp. 66-69.
  5. 'Laws and theories' in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, P. Edwards (ed.), Macmillan, New York 1967, vol. iv, pp. 404-410.
  6. 'Models and analogy in science' in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, P. Edwards (ed.), Macmillan, New York 1967, vol. v, pp. 354-359.
  7. 'Simplicity' in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, P. Edwards (ed.), Macmillan, New York 1967, vol. vii, pp. 445-448.
  8. 'Void' in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, P. Edwards (ed.), Macmillan, New York 1967, vol. viii, pp. 217-218.
  9. Essay Review [Beyond the Edge of Certainty: Essays in Contemporary Science and Philosophy, R. G. Colodny (ed.), Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs (N. J.) 1965], Ratio, vol. ix (1967), 91-93.

 

1968

 

  1. 'Fine’s criteria for meaning change', Journal of Philosophy, vol. lxv (1967), 46-52.
  2. 'Consilience of Inductions' in The Problem of Inductive Logic: Proceedings of the International Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 2: Studies in logic and the foundations of mathematics,, I. Lakatos (ed.), North-Holland, Amsterdam 1968, pp. 232-246 and pp. 254-257.
  3. 'A Self-correcting Observation Language' in Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science III: Proceedings of the Third International Congress for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science,, B. van Rootselaar and J. F. Stahl (eds), North-Holland, Amsterdam 1968, pp. 297-309.
  4. 'Science and Subjectivity', Essay review [Israel Scheffler, Science and Subjectivity, Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis 1967], British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, vol. xix (1968), 176-177.

 

1969

 

  1. 'Confirmation of Laws' in Philosophy, Science and Method: Essays in Honor of Ernest Nagel, S. Morgenbesser, P. Suppes and M. White (eds), St. Martin’s Press, New York 1969, pp. 74-79.
  2. 'Positivism and the Logic of Scientific Theories' in The Legacy of Logical Positivism for the Philosophy of Science, P. Achinstein and S. Barker (eds), Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore (Md.) 1969, pp. 85-114.
  3. 'Ramifications of ‘Grue’', British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, vol. xx (1969), 13-25.
  4. 'The encyclopedia of philosophy', Essay review [The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Paul Edwards (ed.), Macmillan, New York and The Free Press, London 1967], British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, vol. xx (1969), 263-269.
  5. 'Talk of God', Essay review [Talk of God: Royal Institute of Philosophy Lectures, Vol. 2, 1967-68, Macmillan, London and St. Martin’s Press, New York 1969 ], Philosophy, vol. xliv (1969), 343-349.

 

1970

 

  1. 'Theories and the transitivity of confirmation', Philosophy of Science, vol. xxxvii (1970), 50-63.
  2. 'Duhem, Quine, and a New Empiricism' in Knowledge and Necessity, Royal Institute of Philosophy Lectures, vol. iii, G. Vesey (ed.), Macmillan, London and St, Martin’s Press, New York 1970, pp. 191-209.
  3. 'Francis Bacon' in Dictionary of Scientific Biography, C. C. Gillespie (ed.), Scribner, New York 1970, vol. i, pp. 372-377.
  4. 'An Inductive Logic of Theories' in Analyses of Theories and Methods of Physics and Psychology, Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. iv, M. Radner and S. Winokur (eds), University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis (Minn.) 1970, pp. 164-80.
  5. 'Is There an Independent Observation Language?' in The Nature and Function of Scientific Theories, R. G. Colodny (ed.), University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh 1970, pp. 35-77.
  6. 'Hermeticism and Historiography: An Apology for the Internal History of Science' in Historical and Philosophical Perspective of Science, Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. v, R. H. Stuewer (ed.), University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis (Minn.) 1970, pp. 134-160.
  7. Comment on Howard Stein, 'On the Notion of Field in Newton, Maxwell, and Beyond' in Historical and Philosophical Perspective of Science, Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. v, Roger H. Stuewer (ed.), University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis (Minn.) 1970; Gordon and Breach, New York 1989, p. 298.

 

1971

 

    'Whewell’s consilience of inductions and predictions', Monist, vol. lx (1971), 520-524.

 

1972

 

    'Probability as the logic of science', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, vol. lxxii (1972), 257-272.

 

1973

 

  1. 'In defence of objectivity', Annual Philosophical Lecture, Proceeds of the British Academy, vol. lviii (1973), 275-292.
  2. 'Reasons and Evaluations in the History of Science' in Changing Perspectives in the History of Science, M. Teich and R. M. Young (eds), Heinemann Educational Books, London 1973, pp. 127-147.
  3. 'Logic of Discovery in Maxwell’s Electromagnetic Theory' in Foundations of Scientific Method in the Nineteenth Century, R. N. Giere and R. S. Westfall (eds), Indiana University Press: Bloomington (Ind.) 1973, 86-114.
  4. 'Models of Theory-change' in Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science IV: Proceedings of the Third International Congress for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, P. Suppes and others (eds), North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam 1973, pp. 379-391.

 

1974

 

  1. The Structure of Scientific Inference, Macmillan, London and University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles 1974, pp. vii+309.
  2. 'Method in Maxwell’s electrodynamics', Proceeds of the XIII International Congress in the History of Science, Section VI, Moscow, August 18-24 1971, Nauka, Moscow 1974, pp. 14-21.
  3. 'Worlds, selves and theories', Cambridge Review, vol. xcv (1974), 62-65.

 

1975

 

  1. 'Bayesian Methods and the Initial Probabilities of Theories' in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. vi, G. Maxwell and R. M. Anderson (eds), University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis (Minn.) 1975, pp. 50-105.
  2. 'Bayesianism and scientific inference', Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, vol. v (1975), 267-272.
  3. 'Lonergan and Method in the Natural Sciences' in Looking at Lonergan’s Method, P. Corcoran (ed.), Gill and MacMillan, Dublin 1975, pp. 59-72.
  4. 'Models of method in the natural and social sciences', Methodology and Science, vol. viii (1975), 163-178.
  5. 'On the Alleged Incompatibility between Christianity and Science' in Man and Nature, H. Montefiore (ed.), Collins, London 1975, pp. 121-131.
  6. Comment on Peter Achinstein, “The Object of Explantion” in Explanation, S. Körner (ed.), Basil Blackwell, Oxford and Yale University Press, New Haven (Conn.) 1975, pp. 45-54.

 

1976

 

  1. 'Models versus Paradigms in the Natural Sciences' in The Use of Models in the Social Sciences, L. Collins (ed.), Tavistock, London and Westview Press, Boulder (Colo.) 1976, pp. 1-15.
  2. 'Criteria of truth in science and theology', Religious Studies, vol. xi (1976), 385-400.
  3. 'Peacocke’s ‘Reductionism’, Discussion, Zygon, vol. xi (1976), 335-337.
  4. 'Truth and the Growth of Scientific Knowledge', PSA 1976: Proceedings of the 1976 Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, vol. 2, F. Suppe and P. D. Asquith (eds), Philosophy of Science Association, East Lansing (Mich.) 1976, pp. 261-280.

 

1978

 

  1. 'Theory and Value in the Social Sciences' in Action and Interpretation: Studies in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences, C. Hookway and P. Pettit (eds), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York 1978, pp. 1-16.
  2. 'Introduction' in Human Implications of Scientific Advance: Proceedings of the XV International Congress of the History of Science, E. G. Forbes (ed.), Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 1978, pp. 59-63.

 

1979

 

  1. 'The ideological and theological debate about science: introduction and a statement of the issues', Anticipations (January 1979), pp. 4-5 and 8-11.
  2. Commentray on C. F. von Weizsäcker: ‘The preconditions of experience and the unity of physics’ in Transcendental Arguments and Science, P. Bieri, R. P. Horstmann and L. Krüger (eds), Reidel, Dordrecht and Boston 1979, pp. 159-170.

 

1980

 

  1. 'What Is the Best Way to Assess Evidential Support for Scientific Theories?' in Applications of Inductive Logic: Proceedings of a Conference at the Queen's College, Oxford, August 21-24, 1978, Laurence J. Cohen and Mary B. Hesse (eds), Clarendon Press, Oxford and Oxford University Press, New York 1980, pp. 202-217.
  2. Comment on S. S. Shoemaker, 'Properties, Causation, and Projectibility' in Applications of Inductive Logic: Proceedings of a Conference at the Queen's College, Oxford, August 21-24, 1978, Laurence J. Cohen and Mary B. Hesse (eds), Clarendon Press, Oxford and Oxford University Press, New York 1980, pp. 329-330.
  3. Revolutions and Reconstructions in the Philosophy of Science, The Harvester Press, Brighton and Indiana University Press, Bloomington (Ind.) 1980.
  4. 'A Revised Regularity View of Scientific Laws' in Science, Belief and Behaviour: Essays in Honour of R. B. Braithwaite, D. H. Mellor (ed.), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York 1980, pp. 87-103.
  5. 'Minogue on intensional reference', Philosophy of Science, vol. xlvii (1980), 617-625.

 

1981

 

  1. 'Habermas’ Consensus Theory of Truth', PSA 1978: Proceedings of the 1978 Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, vol. 2, P. D. Asquith and I. Hacking (eds), Philosophy of Science Association, East Lansing (Mich.) 1981.
  2. 'Anti-realist philosophy of science', Essay review [B. C. Van Fraassen, The Scientific Image, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1980], Nature 289 (1981), pp. 207-208.

 

1982

 

  1. 'The Hunt for Scientific Reason', PSA 1980: Proceedings of the 1978 Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, vol. 2, P. D. Asquith and R. N. Giere (eds), Philosophy of Science Association, East Lansing (Mich.) 1981, pp. 3-22.
  2. 'Comments on the paper of David Bloor and Steven Lukes', Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, vol. xii (1982), 325-331.
  3. 'Science and Objectivity' in Habermas. Critical debates, D. Held and J. Thompson (eds), Cambridge (Mass.), The MIT Press and Macmillan, London 1982, pp. 98-115 and 292-293.
  4. 'Is there a quantum world?', Proceedings of the Royal Institution, vol. liv (1982), 133-197.

 

1983

 

  1. Comment on Kuhn’s ‘Commensurability, comparability, communicability’ in PSA 1982: Proceedings of the 1982 Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, P. D. Asquith and T. Nickels (eds), Philosophy of Science Association, East Lansing (Mich.), 1983, pp. 704-711.
  2. 'The Cognitive Claims of Metaphor' in Metaphor and Religion. Theolinguistics 2, J.-P. van Noppen (ed.), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels 1983.
  3. 'Cosmology as Myth' in Theology and Cosmology, Concilium, 1983/6, no. 166, 49-54.

 

1985

 

  1. 'Rationality and the Generalisation of Scientific Style' in The Light of Nature: Essays in the History and Philosophy of Science Presented to A. C. Crombie, J. North and J. Rothe (eds), Martinus Nijhoff, Dordrecht 1985, pp. 365-381.
  2. 'Epistemology without Foundations' in Philosophy, its History and Historiography, A. J. Holland (ed.), Reidel, Dordrecht and Boston 1985, pp. 49-90.

 

1986

 

  1. 'Texts without types and lumps without laws', New Literary History, vol. xvii (1985-1986), 31-48.
  2. Michael A. Arbib and Mary B. Hesse, The Construction of Reality, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1986.
  3. 'Changing concepts and stable order', Essay Review [H. M. Collins, Changing Order: Replication and Induction in Scientific Practise, Sage Publications, London 1985], Social Studies of Science, vol. xvi (1986), 714-725.

 

1987

 

  1. 'Keynes and the method of analogy', Topoi, vol. vi (1987), 65-74.
  2. 'Unfamiliar noises II: Tropical talk: the myth of the literal', Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume, vol. lxi (1987), 297-311.
  3. 'Ayer and the Philosophy of Science' in Logical Positivism in Perspective: Essays on Language, Truth, and Logic, B. Gower (ed.), Barnes and Noble, Totowa (N. J.), pp. 69-88.
  4. 'Socializing Epistemology' in Scientific Knowledge Socialized: Selected Proceedings of the 5th Joint International Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science, I. Hronszky, M. Fehér and B. Dajka (eds), Kluwer, Dordercht and Boston 1988, pp. 3-26 and in Construction and Constraint: The Shaping of Scientific Rationality, E. McMullin (ed.), University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame (Ind.) 1988, pp. 97-122.

 

1988

 

  1. ''Rationality' in science and morals', Comment [Martin Eger, 'A tale of two controversies'], Zygon, vol. xxiii (1988), 327-332.
  2. 'Theories, Family Resemblances and Analogy' in Analogical Reasoning: Perspectives of Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, and Philosophy, D. H. Helman (ed.), Kluwer, Dordrecht and Boston 1988, pp. 317-340.
  3. 'Vico’s Heroic Metaphor' in Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Essays in Honour of Gerd Buchdahl, R. Woolhouse (ed.), Kluwer, Dordrecht and Boston, pp. 185-212.
  4. 'Science beyond Realism and Relativism' in Cognitive Relativism and Social Science, D. Raven, L. van Vucht Tijssen and J. de Wolf (eds), University of Utrecht, Utrecht 1988, pp. 129-143.

 

1989

 

  1. 'Beyond relativism in the natural and social sciences', Italian translation by A. Pagnini, 'Oltre il relativismo nelle scienze naturali e sociali', Iride 3 (1989), 53-66.
  2. 'Models, metaphors and myths', The New York Times, 22 October 1989, p. E24.

 

1991

 

    Essay Review [Philip Clayton, Explanation from Physics to Theology: An Essay in Rationality and Religion, Yale University Press, New Haven 1989, pp. 230], CTNS Bulletin, vol. xi, No. 2 (Spring 1991), 39-40.

 

1992

 

  1. Comment on Herbert Simon: ‘Scientific discovery as problem solving’, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. vi (1992), 33-34.
  2. 'Need a Constructed Reality Be Non-Objective? Reflections on Science and Society' in The End of Science? Attack and Defence, R. Q. Elvee (ed.), University Press of America, Lanham (Md.) 1992, pp. 53-61.
  3. 'Richard Bevan Braithwaite, 1900–1990', Memoir, Proceedings of the British Academy, vol. lxxii (1992), 367-379.

 

1993

 

    'Models, Metaphors and Truth' in Knowledge and Language, Volume iii: Metaphor and Knowledge, E. R. Ankersmit and J. J. A. Mooij (eds), Kluwer, Dordrecht and Boston 1993, pp. 49-66.

 

1994

 

  1. 'How to be postmodern without being a feminist', Monist, vol. lxxvii (1993), 445-461.
  2. 'The sources of models for God: metaphysics or metaphor?' in Physics and Our View of the World, J. Hilgevoord (ed.), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1994.

 

1995

 

  1. 'Habermas and the force of dialectical argument', History of European Ideas, vol. xxi (1995), 367-378.
  2. 'Bell Reconstructing prehistory: scientific method in archaeology', [Review of Bell, ] Antiquity, vol. lxix, n. 263 (June 1995).

 

1998

 

    'Is Science the New Religion?' in Science Meets Faith: Theology and Science in Conversation, F. Watts (ed.), SPCK (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge) Holy Trinity Church, London 1998, pp. 120-135.

 

1999

 

    'Models and Analogies' in A Companion to Philosophy of Science, W. H. Newton-Smith (ed.), Blackwell, Oxford 1999, pp. 299-307.

 

2000

 

  1. 'Philosophy of Language and the Renewal of Biblical Hermeneutics: Response to Neil B MacDonald' [Neil B. MacDonald, 'How Might the Philosophy of Language Aid the Renewal of Biblical Hermeneutics'] in Renewing Biblical Interpretation, C. G. Bartholomew, C. J. D. Greene and K. Möller (eds), Paternoster, Carlisle and Zondervan, Grand Rapids (Mich.), 2000.
  2. “Domesday land measures in Suffolk”, Lanscape History, vol. xxii (2000).

 

2001

 

    'How to be a Postmodernist and remain a Christian' in After Pentecost: Language and Biblical Interpretation, C. G. Bartholomew, C. J. D. Greene and K. Möller (eds), Carlisle and Zondervan, Grand Rapids (Mich.), 2001.