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philosophy of science

Laws of Nature

David Lewis, `Humean Supervenience Debugged' Mind 103 (1994): 473--90.
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Book Symposium: Laws and Symmetry

in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 53 (1993).

Adrian Heathcote, D. M. Armstrong, ``Causes and Laws'', Nous 25 (1991): 63--73.
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Explanation

James Woodward, ``Scientific Explanation'', The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Edward N. Zalta (ed.)
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Michael Friedman, ``Explanation and Scientific Understanding'', Journal of Philosophy 71 (1974): 5--19.
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Michael Scriven, ``Causation as Explanation'', Noûs 9 (1975): 3--16.
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Symposium: Wesley Salmon's Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World

in Journal of Philosophy 82(11) (1985).

J.W. Carroll, ``The two dams and that damned paresis'', British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 50: 65--81.
[ OUP Journals ]

Clifton, Rob (1998). `Scientific Explanation in Quantum Theory.'
[ http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/documents/disk0/00/00/00/91/index.html ]

Theoretical change, rationality and reference

Dudley Shapere, `The Structure of Scientific Revolutions', Philosophical Review 73 (1964): 383--394.
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David Lewis, `How to Define Theoretical Terms', Journal of Philosophy 67 (1970): 427--446.
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Hartry Field, `Theory Change and The Indeterminacy of Reference', Journal of Philosophy 70 (1973): 462--481.
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Hilary Putnam, `Meaning and Reference' Journal of Philosophy 70 (1973): 699--711.
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Arthur Fine, `How to Compare Theories: Reference and Change', Noûs 9 (1975): 17--32.
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Philip Kitcher, `Theories, Theorists and Theoretical Change', Philosophical Review 87 (1978): 519--547.
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Philip Kitcher, `The Naturalists Return', Philosophical Review 101 (1992): 53--114.
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Michael Friedman, `Truth and Confirmation' Journal of Philosophy 76 (1979): 361--382.
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Scientific Realism and its critics

Bas C. Van Fraassen, `To Save the Phenomena' Journal of Philosophy 73 (1976): 623--632.
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Philosophical Quarterly, Special Issue: Scientific Realism, Jul., 1982

Critical Studies

Structural Realism

Ladyman, James (1998). `What is Structural Realism?' Studies In History and Philosophy of Science 29: 409-424.
[ www.sciencedirect.com | ox.ac.uk access to journal ]

Psillos, Stathis (2000). `Is Structural Realism Possible?' PSA '2000.
[ http://hypatia.ss.uci.edu/lps/psa2k/structural-realism.pdf ]