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Peter Godfrey-Smith, Online Papers Philosophy of Science, Metaphysics and Epistemology
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• "Goodman's Problem and Scientific Methodology" (2004). The 'grue' problem -- or rather, much of it -- can be assimilated to some well-known problems arising in scientific data analysis. The connection is made through the concepts of confounding and bias. Appears in the Journal of Philosophy.
• "Progress and Procedures in Scientific Epistemology," is about evidence and scientific change. It was given as the Reichenbach Lecture at UCLA in 2008.
• "The Strategy of Model-Based Science"(2006). A summary of my views on models and modeling in the philosophy of science, with contrasts to the "semantic view of theories." Richard Levins' work in evolutionary ecology is used as a case study. Appears in Biology and Philosophy.
• "Abstraction and Idealization in Evolutionary Biology." Presented in Paris, 2006. The examples are biological, but the main aim is to make sense of the relations between abstraction, idealization, and approximation.
• "Theories and Models in Metaphysics" (2006). Given at Daniel Stoljar's methodologically explicit conference at ANU, July 2005. More models, but applied to a different part of philosophy. Appears in the Harvard Review of Philosophy.
• "Causal Pluralism" is a new survey of unorthodox views of causation – views that treat causation as disunified in some fundamental sense. After revisions (comments welcome) it will appear in the Oxford Handbook of Causation.
• "Popper's Philosophy of Science: Looking Ahead" discusses some ideas in Karl Popper's philosophy of science that I think have continuing importance. Will appear in the Cambridge Companion to Karl Popper.