Publications
A list of selected recent publications in philosophy of natural and social science. For more information, please visit the personal webpages of the members of this research group.
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Volumes
Cahill, Kevin M. 2021. Towards a Philosophical Anthropology of Culture:听Naturalism, Relativism, and Skepticism, New York: Routledge.
Bangu, Sorin. (Ed.)听2018. Naturalizing Logico-Mathematical Knowledge: Approaches from Philosophy, Psychology and Cognitive Science.听搁辞耻迟濒别诲驳别,听2018
Cahill, K. and Thomas Raleigh. (Eds.) 2018.听Wittgenstein and Naturalism. New York: Routledge.
Cahill, K., Martin Gustafsson and Thomas Schwarz-Wenzer. (Eds.)听2017. Finite but Unbounded: New Approaches in Philosophical Anthropology.听Berlin 大象传媒 in Knowledge Research. Berlin: de Gruyter.
Papers
2024
De Souter, L. (forthcoming). "Evaluating Boolean relationships in Configurational Comparative Methods". Journal of Causal Inference.
2023
Bangu, S. (2023). 鈥淔inite-Size Scaling Theory: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches to Critical Phenomena鈥. 大象传媒 in the History and Philosophy of Science. 100: 99-106. Co-author: Vincent Ardourel.
Bangu S. (2023). 鈥淭he Explanatory and Heuristic Power of Mathematics鈥. Synthese (201; art. 154) Introduction to the homonymous topical collection. Co-authors: Marianna Antonutti-Marfori and Emiliano Ippoliti.听
Baumgartner, M. and Falk, C. (2023). "Configurational Causal Modeling and Logic Regression". Multivariate Behavioral Research 58:2, 292-310.
Zahle, J. (2023). (published online). "". European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 1-18.听
Zahle, J. (2023). 鈥淨ualitative Research in Political Science鈥 in 鈥淭he Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Political Science鈥. Jeroen van Bouwel and Harold Kincaid (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press pp. 204-220.
2022
Bangu S. (2022). 鈥淔activism in Historical Perspective. Understanding the Gravitational Deflection of Light鈥. In 鈥淪cientific Understanding and Representation: Mathematical Modeling in the Life and Physical Sciences鈥. Eds. I. Lawler, K. Khalifa, E. Shech. Ch. 6, pp. 62-77. Routledge
Kincaid, H. & Zahle, J. (2022). (published online). 鈥溾 Synthese, pp. 1-22.听
Parkkinen, V. P. (2022). "Variable relativity of causation is good". Synthese, 200(193)
2021
Bangu, S. (2021) "Hard and Blind: On Wittgenstein鈥檚 Genealogical View of Logical Necessity". Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 102 (2): 439-458
Bangu, S. (2021) "The Appearance of Skepticism: Possibility, Conceivability and Infinite Ascent". Canadian Journal of Philosophy. 51:2, 94-107.
Bangu, S. (2021). "Phase Transitions. In The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Physics. E. Knox and A. Wilson (eds.) Routledge. Ch. 36, pp. 512-23.
Bangu, S. (2021). "Mathematical Explanations of Physical Phenomena". Australasian Journal of Philosophy. 99.4: 669鈥82
Baumgartner, M. (2021). "Qualitative Comparative Analysis and Robust Sufficiency". Quality & Quantity, doi: 10.1007/s11135-021-01157-z
Baumgartner, M. and M. Amb眉hl (2021). "Optimizing Consistency and Coverage in Configurational Causal Modeling". Sociological Methods & Research. doi: 10.1177/0049124121995554; Replication material.
Casini, L. and M. Baumgartner (2021), "The PC Algorithm and the Inference to Constitution" [penultimate draft], The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. doi: 10.1086/714820. Online supplementary material <>
Parkkinen, V. P. and M. Baumgartner (2021). "Robustness and Model Selection in Configurational Causal Modeling". Sociological Methods & Research. doi: 10.1177/0049124120986200
Swiatczak, Martyna Daria (2021). "Different algorithms, different models". Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, doi: 10.1007/s11135-021-01193-9
Swiatczak, M. D. (2021). "Towards a neo-configurational theory of intrinsic motivation". Motivation and Emotion 45, 769-789听
Zahle, J. (2021). "Interpretivism and Qualitative Research" in "Stephen Turner and the Philosophy of the Social", Christopher Adair-Toteff (ed.). Leiden: Brill, pp. 202-220.
Zahle, J. (2021). 鈥溾 Synthese 198(7), pp. 6435-6454.听
2020
Bangu, Sorin. 2020. 鈥楥hanging the Style of Thinking鈥. Wittgenstein on听Superlatives, Revisionism, and Cantorian Set Theory.听Iyyun. The听Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly听(68): 1-21
Baumgartner, M. (2020), , in: The SAGE Handbook听of Political Science, ed. by D. Berg-Schlosser, B. Badie, and L.听Morlino, London: SAGE, pp. 305鈥321.
Baumgartner M. and A. Thiem (2020), , Sociological Methods &听Research听49, 279鈥311, doi: 10.1177/0049124117701487.
Swiatczak, Martyna Daria; Krause, Tobias. 2020.听In control we trust!? Exploring formal control configurations for municipally owned corporations.听Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management.
Veli-Pekka Parkkinen and Jon Williamson. 2020. Extrapolating from model organisms in pharmacology. In B. Osimani & A. La Caze (eds.)听Uncertainty in pharmacology. Springer.
Whitaker R.G., N. Sperber, M. Baumgartner, et al. (2020) ,听Implementation Science听15, 108 (2020).听
Zahle, Julie. 2020 (online first). Objective Data Sets in Qualitative Research.听Synthese.
Zahle, J. and Kincaid, H. (2020). "Agent-Based Modelling With and听Without Methodological Individualism" in Advances in Social Simulation听- Looking in the Mirror, Harko Verhagen, Melania Borit, Giangiacomo听Bravo, and Nanda Wijermans (eds.). Berlin: Springer, pp. 15-25.
Zahle, J. (2020). "The Level Conception of the Methodological听Individualism-Holism Debate" in Social Ontology, Normativity and Law,听Miguel Garcia, Rachael Mellin and Raimo Tuomela (eds.). Berlin: de听Gruyter, pp. 27-38.
2019
Bangu, Sorin. 2019. Discontinuities and Singularities, Data and Phenomena:听For Referentialism.听厂测苍迟丑别蝉别听196: 1919鈥1937
Baumgartner M. and C. Falk. 2019. Boolean Difference-Making: A Modern Regularity Theory of Causation,听The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, doi: 10.1093/bjps/axz047.
Kappel, K. and Zahle, J. (2019). "The Epistemic Role of Science and听Experts in Democracy" in The Routledge Handbook of Social听Epistemology, Peter Graham, Miranda Fricker, David Henderson, and听Nikolaj Jang Lee Linding Pedersen (eds.). London: Routledge Publishers,听pp. 397-405.
Michael Wilde and Veli-Pekka Parkkinen. 2019. Extrapolation and the Russo-Williamson thesis.听Synthese, 196(8), 3251-3262.
Zahle, Julie. and Kincaid, H. 2019. Why be a Methodological Individualist?听Synthese. 196(2): 655-675
Zahle, Julie. 2019 (online first). Limits to Levels in the Methodological Individualism-Holism Debate.听Synthese.
Zahle, Julie. 2019. Data, Epistemic Values and Multiple Methods in Case Study Research.听大象传媒 in History and Philosophy of Science. Part A, 78:32-39.
Zahle, J. & Kaidesoja, T. (2019) "Emergence in the Social Sciences" in听The Routledge Handbook of Emergence, Sophie Gibb, Robin Findlay, & Tom听Lancaster (eds.). London: Routledge Publishers, pp. 400-409.
2018
Bangu, Sorin. 2018. Later Wittgenstein and the Genealogy of Mathematical Necessity. In听Wittgenstein and Naturalism. K. Cahill and T. Raleigh听(eds.) Pp. 151-173. Routledge.
Bangu, Sorin. 2018. Indispensability, Causation and Explanation.听Theoria听33(2): 219-232. In the special issue听Updating Indispensabilities: Hillary Putnam In Memoriam.听Mary Leng听(ed.)
Bangu, Sorin and Robert Moir. 2018. The 'Miracle' of Applicability? The Curious Case of the Simple Harmonic Oscillator.听Foundations of Physics听48(5): 507-525. In the special issue听Philosophical Aspects in the Foundations of Physics.听Miklos Redei, Harvey Brown, Klaas Landsman听(eds.)
Baumgartner, Michael and M. Amb眉hl. 2018. Causal Modeling with Multi-value听and听Fuzzy-set Coincidence Analysis.听Political Science Research and Methods.听诲辞颈:听10.1017/辫蝉谤尘.2018.45.
Baumgartner, M. 2018. The Inherent Empirical Underdetermination of听Mental Causation.听Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 96, 335-350. doi:听10.1080/00048402.2017.1328451
Baumgartner M., L. Casini, and B. Krickel (2018), , Erkenntnis, doi:听10.1007/s10670-018-0033-5.
Parkkinen, V.-P. and Williamson, J. 2018. Extrapolating from model听organisms in pharmacology. In A. La Caze & B. Osimani (Ed.)听Uncertainty听in Pharmacology: Epistemology, Methods and Decisions. Springer: Boston听Series in Philosophy of Science.
Parkkinen, V.-P. 2018. Are model organisms theoretical models?听Disputatio. 9(47), 471-499.
Zahle, Julie. 2018. Values and Data Collection in Social Research.听Philosophy of Science. 85(1): 144-163
2017
Bangu, Sorin. 2017. Scientific Explanation and Understanding: Unificationism Reconsidered. European Journal for Philosophy of Science 7(1): 103-126
Baumgartner, M. and A. Thiem. 2017. Model Ambiguities in听Configurational Comparative Research.听Sociological Methods & Research听46, 954-987. doi: 10.1177/0049124115610351
Parkkinen, V.-P. and Wilde, M. 2017. Extrapolation and the听Russo鈥揥illiamson thesis. Synthese. 1-12. Online first 29 November 2017.
Zahle, Julie. 2017. Privacy, Informed Consent, and Participant Observation.听Perspectives on Science. 25(4): 465-487
Zahle, Julie. 2017. Ability Theories of Practice and Turner's Criticism of听Bourdieu.听Journal for General Philosophy of Science. 48(4): 553-567
2016
Bangu, Sorin. 2016. On 'The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences'. In Models and Inferences in Science. T. Nickles, E. Ippoliti, F. Sterpetti. (eds.) Pp. 11-29. Springer.
Bangu, Sorin. 2016. Later Wittgenstein on the Logicist Definition of Number. In Early Analytic Philosophy. New Perspectives on the Tradition. S. Costreie. (ed.) Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science Series. General ed. W. Demopoulos. Pp. 233-257. Springer
Baumgartner, M. and A. Gebharter. 2016. Constitutive Relevance, Mutual听Manipulability, and Fat-Handedness.听The British Journal for the听Philosophy of Science听67, 731-756. doi: 10.1093/bjps/axv003
Cahill, Kevin. 2016. The Habitus, Coping Practices and the Search for the Ground of Action听Philosophy of the Social Sciences 46(5):498-524
Parkkinen, V.-P. 2016. Robustness and evidence of mechanisms in early听experimental atherosclerosis research.听大象传媒 in History and Philosophy听of Science part C:听大象传媒 in History and Philosophy of Biological and听Biomedical Sciences, 60, 44-55.
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