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PhD Examination

Publications

A. Books

1. 
   Knowing the Structure of Nature: Essays on Realism and Explanation, MacMillan-Palgrave, 2009
   
2. 
   Science and Truth, Okto Publishers 2008 (in Greek)
   
3. 
   The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Science (with Martin Curd) Routledge 2008—Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2008
   
4. 
   Philosophy of Science A-Z, Edinburgh University Press, 2007
   
5. 
   Logic: The Structure of Argument (with Demetris Portides and D A Anapolitanos), Nefeli 2007 (in Greek)
   
6. 
   Causation and Explanation, Acumen (2002) & McGill-Queens University Press (2003)--Prize of the Presidents of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science for the best textbook in the Philosophy of Science
   
7. 
   Scientific Realism: How Science Tracks Truth, 1999, London & New York: Routledge
   

B.Papers

1. 
   Semirealism or Neo-Aristotelianism?, Erkenntnis, forthcoming
   
2. 
   What is General Philosophy of Science? Journal for General Philosophy of Science, forthcoming June 2012
   
3. 
   ‘Causal-descriptivism and the reference of theoretical terms’ in Athanassios Raftopoulos & Peter Machamer (eds) Perception, Realism and the Problem of Reference, Cambridge University Press, pp. 212-238, 2012
   
4. 
   ‘Anti-nominalistic Scientific Realism: A Defence’, in Alexander Bird, Brian Ellis, and Howard Sankey (eds) Properties, Powers and Structures: Issues in the Metaphysics of Realism, Routledge pp. 53-69, 2012
   
5. 
   ‘Adding Modality to Ontic Structuralism: An Exploration and Critique’, in E. Landry and D. Rickles (eds), Structure, Object, and Causality, Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science; Dordrecht: Springer, pp.169-185, 2012
   
6. 
   ‘One Cannot be Just a Little Bit Realist: Putnam and van Fraassen’ in James Robert Brown (ed.) Philosophy of Science: The Key Thinkers, Continuum, pp.188-212, 2012
   
7. 
   ‘Reason and Science’ in Cristina Amoretti & Nicla Vassallo (eds) Reason and Rationality, Ontos Verlag, 2012
   
8. 
   ‘Moving Molecules Above the Scientific Horizon: On Perrin’s Case for Realism’ Journal for General Philosophy of Science, December 2011
   
9. 
   ‘An Explorer upon Untrodden Ground: Peirce on Abduction’ Handbook of the History of Logic Volume 10 -- Inductive Logic (John Woods, Dov Gabbay και Stephan Hartmann eds.). Elsevier, pp.115-148, 2011
   
10. 
    ‘Making Contact with Molecules: On Perrin and Achinstein’ Philosophy of Science Matters: the Philosophy of Peter Achinstein, Gregory J Morgan (ed.) Oxford University Press, pp. 177-190, 2011
    
11. 
    ‘Scientific Realism with a Humean Face’ in Juha Saatsi & Steven French (eds) The Continuum Companion to Philosophy of Science, Continuum, pp. 75-95, 2011
    
12. 
    ‘The Scope and Limits of the No-Miracles Argument’ in Friedrich Stadler et al. (eds) The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective, Vol. II, pp. 23-35, Springer 2011
    
13. 
    ‘The Idea of Mechanism’ in Phyllis McKay, Federica Russo & Jon Williamson (eds) Causality in the Sciences, Oxford University Press, pp.771-788, 2011
    
14. 
    ‘Regularities all the way down: Thomas Brown’s Philosophy of Causation’ in Causation and Modern Philosophy, (Routledge Advances in the History of Philosophy), Keith Allen και Tom Stoneham (eds) Routledge, pp.220-241, 2011
    
15. 
    ‘Choosing the Realist Framework’, Synthese, 190: 301-316, 2011
    
16. 
    ‘Living with the Abstract: Realism and Models’, Synthese 190: 3-17, 2011
    
17. 
    ‘Is the History of Science the Wasteland of False Theories?’ in Adapting Historical Knowledge Production to the Classroom, P. V. Kokkotas et al. (eds) Rotterdam & Boston: Sense Publishers, pp.17-36, 2011
    
18. 
    ‘On Reichenbach’s Argument for Scientific Realism’ Synthese 181: 23-40, 2011
    
19. 
    ‘Scientific Realism: Between Platonism and Nominalism’, Philosophy of Science 77: 947-958, 2010
    
20. 
    ‘Grapsing at Realist Straws’, Critical Notice of of Kyle Stanford: Exceeding Our Grasp, Metascience 18: 363-370, 2009
    
21. 
    ‘Causal Pluralism’, in Robrecht Vanderbeeken & Bart D’Hooghe (eds) Worldviews, Science and Us: Studies of Analytical Metaphysics: A Selection of Topics From a Methodological Perspective, World Scientific Publishers, pp. 131-151, 2009
    
22. 
    ‘The A Priori: Between Conventions and Implicit Definitions, (with Demetra Christopoulou) in The A Priori and its Role in Philosophy, Nikola Kompa, Christian Nimtz, Christian Suhm (eds) Mentis, pp.205-220, 2009
    
23. 
    ‘Regularity Theories’ in Oxford Handbook of Causation, Helen Beebee, Peter Menzies & Chris Hitchcock (eds) Oxford University Press, pp.131-157, 2009
    
24. 
    ‘Carnap and Incommensurability’ Philosophical Inquiry, 30: 135-156, 2008
    
25. 
    ‘Between Realism and Empiricism: The Adventures of Structuralism in the Philosophy of Science’ in Demetra Sfendoni-Mentzou (ed.) Philosophy of the Sciences, Ziti Publishers, 99-118, (in Greek) 2008
    
26. 
    ‘Philosophy of Science’ in The Routledge Companion to the 20^th Century Philosophy, Dermot Moran (eds), Routledge, pp. 618-657, 2008
    
27. 
    ‘The Concept of a Number and the Number of a Concept: An Analysis of the Grundlagen of Gottlob Frege’ (with Demetra Christopoulou) Noesis 3: 79-113 (in Greek) 2008
    
28. 
    ‘Thoughts on Concepts: On Fodor’s Approach’ (with Aspassia Kanelou) Noesis 3: 45-78, (in Greek) 2008
    
29. 
    ‘Cartwright’s Realist Toil: From Entities to Capacities’, in Cartwright’s Philosophy of Science, (eds. Stephan Hartman, Carl Hoefer & Luc Bovens), Routledge, pp.167-194, 2008
    
30. 
    ‘Probabilistic Causation: Contextual Unanimity and Simpson’s paradoxes’ (with Nikos Bisketzis) Nefsis 16: 16-33 (in Greek) 2008
    
31. 
    ‘What is Causation?’ in Beena Choksi and Chitra Natarajan (eds.) The epiSTEME Reviews: Research trends in Science, Technology and Mathematics Education, Macmillan India Ltd, pp.11-34, 2007
    
32. 
    ‘How To Do Things With Theories: An Interactive View of Language and Models in Science’ (with Robin Hendry), in J. Brzeziñski, A. Klawiter, T.A.F. Kuipers, K. Lastowski, K. Paprzycka, P. Przybysz (eds.), The Courage of Doing Philosophy: Essays Dedicated to Leszek Nowak, pp. 59-115, Amsterdam/New York, NY: Rodopi, 2007
    
33. 
    ‘Past and Contemporary Perspectives on Explanation’ in Handbook of the Philosophy of Science: Focal Issues. Volume editor: Theo Kuipers. Handbook editors: Dov M. Gabbay, Paul Thagard and John Woods. Elsevier BV, pp.97-173, 2007
    
34. 
    ‘Putting a Bridle on Irrationality: An Appraisal of Van Fraassen’s New Epistemology’, in Bradley Monton (ed.) Images of Empiricism, Oxford University Press, pp.134-164, 2007
    
35. 
    ‘Pierre Duhem’s Philosophy of Science: Between Science and Metaphysics’, (with Milena Ivanova), Appendix in Pierre Duhem: ΣΩΖΕΙΝ ΤΑ ΦΑΙΝΟΜΕΝΑ, Greek Translation, Nefeli Publishers, (in Greek) 2007
    
36. 
    ‘Reflections on Conceptual Change’ in Stella Vosniadou, Aristides Baltas and Xenia Vamvakoussi (eds) Reframing the Conceptual Change Approach in Learning and Instruction, Elsevier Ltd, pp.83-87, 2007
    
37. 
    ‘Realism’, ‘Causal Law’, ‘Inference’, ‘Reference’, ‘Nicod’s Criterion’, ‘Philosophy of Science’ in A Dictionary of Critical Realism, Mervyn Hartwig (ed.), Routledge, 2007
    
38. 
    ‘Causal Explanation and Manipulation’ in Johannes Person & Petri Ylikoski (eds) Rethinking Explanation, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 252. Springer, pp. 97-112, 2007
    
39. 
    ‘The Fine Structure of Inference to the Best Explanation’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 74: 441-448, 2007
    
40. 
    ‘The Structure, the Whole Structure and Nothing but the Structure?’, Philosophy of Science 73: 560–570, 2006
    
41. 
    ‘What do powers do when they are not manifested?’ Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 72: 135-156, 2006
    
42. 
    ‘Critical Notice: Laws in Nature’, Metascience 15: 437-469, 2006
    
43. 
    ‘Thinking About the Ultimate Argument for Realism’, in Rationality & Reality, (eds Colin Cheyne & John Worrall), Springer, pp. 133-156, 2006
    
44. 
    ‘Philosophy of science, history of’ in Borchert, Donald, ed. Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd edition. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, (volume 7, pp. 503-516), 2006
    
45. 
    ‘Underdetermination Thesis, Duhem-Quine Thesis’ in Borchert, Donald, ed. Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd edition. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, (volume 9, pp. 575-578), 2006
    
46. 
    ‘Scientific Realism’ in Borchert, Donald, ed. Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd edition. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, (volume 8, pp. 688-694), 2006
    
47. 
    ‘Ramsey’s Ramsey-sentences’, in Cambridge and Vienna: Frank P Ramsey and the Vienna Circle (Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook 12), (ed. Maria Carla Galavotti), Springer, pp. 67-90, 2006
    
48. 
    ‘Scientific Realism and Metaphysics’, Ratio 18: 385-404, 2005
    
49. 
    ‘Causation’, Archives of Greek Medicine 22: 594-605 (in Greek) 2005
    
50. 
    ‘Neo-Logicism: Problems and Prospects’ (with Demetra Christopoulou) Nefsis 14: 152-173 (in Greek), 2005
    
51. 
    ‘Reductivism and the Problem of Mental Causation’, Noesis 1: 39-58 (in Greek), 2005
    
52. 
    ‘Truth as a Value’ in Universal Values (Loucas G. Christophorou & George Contopoulos eds.) Academy of Athens, Athens, pp. 143-146, 2004
    
53. 
    ‘Modesty and Presumptuousness: How Science Tracks Truth’ in Philosophy of Science in the Twentieth Century, National Research Foundation, pp.121-133, (in Greek) 2004
    
54. 
    ‘Causality’, In New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, Maryanne Cline Horowitz, (ed.), Charles Scribner’s Sons, pp. 272-280, 2004
    
55. 
    ‘A Glimpse of the Secret Connexion: Harmonising Mechanisms with Counterfactuals’, Perspectives on Science 12: 288-319, 2004
    
56. 
    ‘Tracking the Real: Through Thick and Thin’, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 55: 393-409, 2004
    
57. 
    ‘Inference to the Best Explanation and Bayesianism’ in F. Stadler (ed.) Induction and Deduction in the Sciences, Kluwer, pp.83-91, 2004
    
58. 
    ‘Scientific Realism’ in Philosophy of Science Today, (eds P. Clark & C. Hawley) Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp.59-82, 2003
    
59. 
    ‘Theories of Scientific Method: Models for the Physico-Mathematical Sciences’ (with Nancy Cartwright and Hasok Chang), in The Cambridge History of Science, Volume 5, The Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences, (ed. M. J. Nye), Cambridge University Press, pp.21-35, 2003
    
60. 
    ‘Simply the Best: A Case for Abduction’ in Computational Logic: From Logic Programming into the Future, LNAI 2408, (eds A. C. Kakas & F. Sadri), Berlin-Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, pp.605-25, 2002
    
61. 
    ‘Salt does dissolve in water, but not necessarily’, Analysis 62: 255-7, 2002
    
62. 
    ‘What is the Positive Content of Negative Realism?;’ Nefsis 11: 85-95, (in Greek) 2002
    
63. 
    ‘Predictive Similarity and the Success of Science: A Reply to Stanford’ Philosophy of Science 68: 346-55, 2001
    
64. 
    ‘Is Structural Realism Possible?’ Philosophy of Science 68: S13-24, 2001
    
65. 
    ‘Author’s Response’ Metascience 10: 366-70, 2001
    
66. 
    ‘The Present State of the Scientific Realism Debate’ The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 51: 705-28, 2000
    
67. 
    ‘Abduction: Between Conceptual Richness and Computational Complexity’ in Abduction and Induction: Essays in their Relation and Integration, (Applied Logic Series, Vol. 18), (eds. A. C. Kakas and P. Flach), Kluwer, pp.59-74, 2000
    
68. 
    ‘An Introduction to Carnap’s ‘Theoretical Concepts in Science’” (with Carnap’s unpublished lecture “Theoretical Concepts in Science”) Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 31: 151-72, 2000
    
69. 
    ‘Empiricism vs Scientific Realism: Belief in Truth Matters’, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 14: 57-75, 2000
    
70. 
    ‘Carnap, the Ramsey-Sentence and Realistic Empiricism’ Erkenntnis 52: 253-79, 2000
    
71. 
    ‘Naturalism Without Truth?’ Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 28: 699-713, 1997
    
72. 
    ‘Kitcher on Reference’ International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 11: 259-72, 1997
    
73. 
    ‘How Not to Defend Constructive Empiricism: A Rejoinder’ The Philosophical Quarterly 47: 369-72, 1997
    
74. 
    ‘Scientific Realism and the “Pessimistic Induction”’ Philosophy of Science 63: S306-14, 1996
    
75. 
    ‘On van Fraassen’s Critique of Abductive Reasoning’ The Philosophical Quarterly 46: 31-47, 1996. Translation into Portuguese ‘Sobre a Critica de van Fraassen ao Raciocinio Abdutivo’ Crtica-Revista de Filosofia 6, pp.35-62, 2000
    
76. 
    ‘Poincaré’s Conception of Mechanical Explanation’ in Henri Poincarè: Science and Philosophy, (eds. Jean-Louis Greffe, Gerhard Heinzmann & Kuno Lorenz), Berlin: Academie Verlag & Paris: Albert Blanchard, pp.177-91, 1996
    
77. 
    ‘Is Structural Realism the Best of Both Worlds?’ Dialectica 49: 15-46, 1995
    
78. 
    ‘The Cognitive Interplay Between Theories and Models: The Case of 19^th Century Optics’, in Theories and Models in Scientific Processes, Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 44, (eds W. E. Herfel, W. Krajewski, I. Niiniluoto & R. Wojcicki), pp.105-33, 1995
    
79. 
    ‘A Philosophical Study of the Transition from the Caloric Theory of Heat to Thermodynamics: Resisting the Pessimistic Meta-Induction’, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 25: 159-90, 1994
    
80. 
    ‘Conceptions and Misconceptions of Ether’ in Proceedings of the 3^rd International Conference on the Physical Interpretations of Relativity Theory, (ed. M. C. Duffy) Imperial College, London, pp.544-56, 1992
    

C.Book Reviews

1. 
   Henk W. de Regt, Sabina Leonelli, and Kai Eigner (eds.), Scientific Understanding: Philosophical Perspectives, (with Antigone Nounou), Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, forthcoming.
   
2. 
   Steven Gimbel (ed.): Exploring the scientific method: Cases and questions, (Book Notice), Metascience, forthcoming.
   
3. 
   Michael Dummett: The nature and future of philosophy (Book Notice) Metascience, 20: 3, 2011.
   
4. 
   Friedrich Stadler (ed.): The present situation in the philosophy of science (Book Notice), Metascience, 20: 415-6 (2011)
   
5. 
   Anjan Chakravartty: A Metaphysics for Scientific Realism, ISIS 100, 204-5 (2009)
   
6. 
   Howard Sankey: Scientific Realism and the Rationality of Science, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 87: 681-684 (2009)
   
7. 
   Derek Turner Making Prehistory: Historical Science and the Scientific Realism Debate, Notre Dame Review of Books (2008)
   
8. 
   ‘The DOOR to Sellars’, Review of Willem A. de Vries, Wilfrid Sellars (with Andreas Karitzis), Metascience 16: 555-559 (2007)
   
9. 
   Yemina Ben-Menahem Conventionalism: From Poincaré to Quine. Philosophy in Review 27: 243-245 (2007)
   
10. 
    Norris, Christopher, Philosophy of Language and the Challenge to Scientific Realism, Journal of Critical Realism 4: 255-261 (2005)
    
11. 
    Musgrave, A. Essays on realism and rationalism, Philosophy of the Social Sciences 34: 440-4 (2004)
    
12. 
    Achinstein, P. The Book of Evidence, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 68: 740-3 (2004)
    
13. 
    Solomon, M. Social Empiricism, Philosophy of Science 69: 545-7 (2002)
    
14. 
    Niiniluoto, I. Critical Scientific Realism, MIND 111: 454-8 (2002)
    
15. 
    Morrison, M & Morgan, M. (eds) Models as Mediators, Economics and Philosophy 17: 288-94 (with Francesco Guala) (2002)
    
16. 
    Kukla, A. Studies in Scientific Realism, The Foundations of Chemistry 3: 79-86 (2001)
    
17. 
    Giere, R. Science without Laws, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 15: 102-5 (2001)
    
18. 
    Wilson, F. The Logic and Methodology of Science in Early Modern Thought, Philosophy in Review 20: 447-9 (2000)
    
19. 
    Richardson, A. Carnap’s Construction of the World, MIND 109: 986-90 (2000)
    
20. 
    ‘World According to Flux of Tropes’ The Times Higher Education Supplement, 6 October 2000, 29
    
21. 
    Gower, B. Theories of Scientific Method, Ratio 12: 310-16 (1999)
    
22. 
    ‘True Stories’, Nature 392: 35-6 (1998)
    
23. 
    Marsonet, M.: Language, Science and Reality, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 47: 663-8 (1996)
    
24. 
    ‘Rights from Wrongs’, Nature 383: 682 (1996)
    
25. 
    Aronson J., Harré R., & Way E. C.: Realism Rescued International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 9: 179-83 (1995)
    
26. 
    Roger Trigg: Rationality and Science, MIND 104: 674-9 (1995)
    
27. 
    Karl Popper: The Myth of the Framework Philosophy in Review 15: 200-2 (1995)
    
28. 
    Paul Hoyningen-Huene: Reconstructing Scientific Revolutions and Paul Horwich (ed.): World Changes, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 45: 923-6 (1994)
    

D.Interviews and other philosophical pieces

1. ‘Philosophy of Science in Greece: Past, Present and Future’, in EPSA Newsletter, Vol. 1 Issue 2, September 2011, pp. 3-7, 2011

2. ‘Interview by Federica Russo’, Reasoner, Volume 5, no. 7, pp. 102-106July 2011

3. ‘Philosophy of Science: 5 Answers’ in R. Rosengberg (ed.) Philosophy of Science: 5 Questions, Automatic Press/VIP, pp. 169-180, 2010

E.Work in Progress

Empiricism in the Philosophy of Science, Acumen, (under contract, forthcoming)
Citations: H-index: 16; G-index: 36

Total number of citations: 1484

Books: Scientific Realism (591); Causation and Explanation (120)

Invited Talks and Conferences

1. 
   ‘Regularities all the way down’. Invited Talk at the Workshop: Explanation, Causality, Unification’, University of Dusseldorf, November 2011.
   
2. 
   ‘How Molecules Became Part of Scientific Consciousness: On Jean Perrin’s Case for Realism’ Springer Lecture, 11^th International IHPST conference, University of Thessaloniki, July 2011
   
3. 
   ‘Representing is Perspectival, the Represented is not’, Invited talk at the International Conference of the Academie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences, Universite Catholique de Louvain, April 2011.
   
4. 
   ‘Empiricist Conceptions of laws of Nature’. Universite Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Conference ‘ Nature en eclats’, April 1011 (invited).
   
5. 
   ‘The View from Above and the View from Within : on van Fraassen’s Perrin’ Invited talk at the conference ‘Representations and Models in Science: the Philosophy of Bas van Fraassen’, University of la Coruna, March 2011
   
6. 
   ‘Empiricist Conceptions of laws of Nature’. University of Cologne January 2011 (invited).
   
7. 
   ‘Adding Modality to Ontic Structuralism’, University of Cologne, January 2011 (invited).
   
8. 
   ‘Scientific Realism with a Humean Face’, University of Dusseldorf, January 2011 (invited).
   
9. 
   ‘Making Contact with Molecules: On Perrin on Molecular Reality’, University of Leeds, November 2010 (invited).
   
10. 
    ‘Objectivity and Reference’ 1^st Greek Philosophy of Science Conference, University of Athens, October 2010.
    
11. 
    ‘Adding Modality to Structural Realism: An exploration and Critique’, Italian Society of Analytic Philosophy, University of Padua September 2010 (invited).
    
12. 
    ‘Scientific Realism: Between Platonism and Nominalism’, University of Milan- Biccoca, May 2010 (Invited)
    
13. 
    ‘Scientific Realism: Between Platonism and Nominalism’, University of Barcelona, April 2010 (Invited)
    
14. 
    ‘Causation and Mechanisms’, Workshop: Metaphysics of Science, University of Warsaw, January 2010 (Invited)
    
15. 
    ‘Scientific Realism in Context’ 2^nd Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association, Amsterdam October 2009
    
16. 
    ‘The Scope and Limits of the No-Miracles Argument’, Conference on Philosophy of Science in European Perspective, Utrecht University, October 2009 (Invited)
    
17. 
    ‘Mechanisms sans Metaphysics’, Conference: Mechanisms and Causality in Science, University of Kent, September 2009 (Invited)
    
18. 
    ‘Anti-Nominalistic Scientific Realism: A Defence’, Workshop: Metaphysics of Science, University of Melbourne, July 2009 (Invited)
    
19. 
    ‘Against Neo-Instrumentalism’, University of Hannover, April 2009 (Invited)
    
20. 
    ‘On Reichenbach’s Argument for Scientific Realism’ University of Bielefeld April 2009 (Invited)
    
21. 
    ‘Anti-Nominalistic Realism: A Defence’, University of Munster, April 2009 (Invited)
    
22. 
    ‘Scientific Realism: Between Platonism and Nominalism’, University of Bristol, January 2009 (Invited)
    
23. 
    ‘Scientific Realism and Mathematical Nominalism’, PSA08 Pittsburgh, November 2008
    
24. 
    ‘The Idea of Mechanism’, Conference on Causality in the Sciences, University of Kent, September 2008 (Invited)
    
25. 
    ‘Empiricist Conceptions of Laws of Nature’, Workshop & Young Researchers Days in Logic, Philosophy and History of Science, Brussels September 2008 (Invited)
    
26. 
    ‘What is (and what is not) Inference to the Best Explanation?’ Conference on Induction and Deduction in the Sciences, University of Ghent, July 2008 (Invited)
    
27. 
    ‘Is the History of Science the Wasteland of False Theories?’, 7^th International Conference for History of Science in Science Education, University of Athens July 2008 (Invited)
    
28. 
    ‘Reichenbach’s Argument for Scientific Realism’, Conference ‘A Philosopher of Science in Istanbul: Hans Reichenbach’, May 2008 (Invited)
    
29. 
    ‘Choosing the Realist Framework’ Conference: ‘Theoretical Frameworks and Empirical Underdetermination, University of Düsseldorf, April 2008 (Invited)
    
30. 
    ‘Regularities all the way down: Thomas Brown’s Philosophy of Causation’. Congress of the British Society for the History of Philosophy: Causation 1500-2000, University of York, March 2008
    
31. 
    ‘How to be a Scientific Realist: A Proposal to Empiricists’, Centre for Philosophy of Science, University of Ghent, December 2007 (Invited)
    
32. 
    ‘Empiricist Conception of Laws of Nature’ Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve, December 2007 (Invited)
    
33. 
    ‘Living with the Abstract: Realism and Models’ Conference: Models and Simulations, University of Tilburg October 2007 (Invited)
    
34. 
    ‘The Next Best Thing: Causation and Regularity’ Workshop on Causation and Relativity, Autonomous University of Barcelona, September 2007 (Invited)
    
35. 
    ‘How to be a Scientific Realist: A Proposal to Empiricists’, Annual Conference of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science, Bristol, July 2007 (Invited)
    
36. 
    ‘What is Causation?’ Congress: Trends in Science Education, Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Mumbai, India, February 2007 (Invited)
    
37. 
    ‘Why Does Philosophy Matter to Science?’ Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai February 2007 (Invited Public Lecture)
    
38. 
    ‘The A Priori: Between Conventions and Implicit Definitions’, Bilkent University, Ankara, November 2006 (Invited)
    
39. 
    ‘The A Priori: Between Conventions and Implicit Definitions’, Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Sciences, LSE, September 2006 (Invited)
    
40. 
    ‘The A Priori: Between Conventions and Implicit Definitions’ (with Demetra Christopoulou) Symposium on Implicit Definitions and the A Priori, GAP 2006, Berlin September 2006 (Invited)
    
41. 
    ‘Scientific realism and the Deflationary Theory of Truth’, University of Helsinki, June 2006 (Invited)
    
42. 
    ‘Realism vs Perspectivalism: Why Does it Matter?’ Conference on Realism/Universalism vs. Relativism/Culturalism: Philosophical, Historical and Political Perspectives, Bogazici University, Istanbul, May 2006 (Invited)
    
43. 
    Between Realism and Empiricism: The adventures of Structuralism in the Philosophy of Science’ Greek Conference in the Philosophy of Science, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, May 2006 (Invited)
    
44. 
    ‘Mechanisms: Between Explanation and Causation’ Symposium on Mechanisms in the Sciences, American Philosophical Association, Central Division, Chicago April 2006 (Invited)
    
45. 
    ‘Causal Pluralism’, Dept of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago, April 2006 (Invited)
    
46. 
    ‘Causation, Laws and Explanation’ University of Helsinki, December 2005 (Invited)
    
47. 
    ‘Causal Pluralism’ Erasmus University of Rotterdam, November 2005 (Invited)
    
48. 
    ‘Causal Pluralism’ Conference of the European Society of Analytic Philosophy, Lisbon, August 2005 (Invited)
    
49. 
    ‘Scientific Realism and Deflationism about Truth’ (with Andreas Karitzis) Annual conference of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science, University of Manchester, July 2005
    
50. 
    ‘Causal Pluralism’ Workshop on the Philosophy of Action, University of Cyprus, June 2005 (Invited)
    
51. 
    ‘Causal Pluralism’, Conference on the Metaphysics of Science, University of Gent June 2005 (Invited)
    
52. 
    ‘The Natural Causal Attitude’, Bogazici University Istanbul May 2005 (Invited)
    
53. 
    ‘Causal Pluralism’, Lund University April 2005 (Invited)
    
54. 
    ‘Philosophers as Risk Managers’, Workshop Improving Policy Decisions in areas of risk and scientific uncertainty, LSE, December 2004 (Invited)
    
55. 
    ‘The Structure, the Whole Structure and Nothing but the Structure?’ Symposium on The Semantic View of Theories, Scientific Structuralism and Structural Realism, Philosophy of Science Association 2004, Austin Texas, November 2004
    
56. 
    ‘The Natural Causal Attitude’, Symposium on Causal Inference and Probability in the Physical Sciences (Spanish Society for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science), Valladolid, Spain, November 2004 (Invited)
    
57. 
    ‘Using a black box or finding out what’s in it?’ Symposium on Risk, Uncertainty and Dissent: Dealing With “Chancy” Science and “Chancy” Society, organised by the Group of Policy Advisers (ΕU), the Philosophy Department of the London School of Economics and the European Commission’s Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, Seville, Spain, June 2004 (Invited)
    
58. 
    ‘Scientific Realism and Metaphysics’ Conference Metaphysics in Science, Reading, May 2004 (Invited)
    
59. 
    ‘Remarks on Conceptual Change’ 4^th European Symposium on Conceptual Change, Delphi May 2004 (Invited)
    
60. 
    ‘The Ultimate Argument for Realism’, University of Rotterdam February 2004 (Invited)
    
61. 
    ‘Scientific Realism and the Base-rate Fallacy’, Belgian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Brussels, February 2004 (Invited)
    
62. 
    ‘A Glimpse of the Secret Connexion: Harmonising Mechanisms with Counterfactuals’ University of Gent, Belgium, February 2004 (Invited)
    
63. 
    ‘Science and Truth’ Dept of Philosophy and Education, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, December 2003 (Invited)
    
64. 
    ‘Ramsey’s Ramsey-sentences’ Conference Cambridge and Vienna—Frank P. Ramsey and the Vienna Circle, University of Vienna, November 2003 (Invited)
    
65. 
    ‘A Glimpse of the Secret Connexion: Harmonising Mechanisms with Counterfactuals’, University of Oslo, September 2003
    
66. 
    ‘Scientific realism and the Base-rate Fallacy’, University of Stockholm, September 2003 (Invited)
    
67. 
    ‘Scientific realism and the Base-rate Fallacy’, University of Goteborg, September 2003 (Invited)
    
68. 
    ‘A Glimpse of the Secret Connexion: Harmonising Mechanisms with Counterfactuals’ Invited talk at the 4^th Athens-Pittsburgh Symposium Proof and Demonstration in the Sciences, Delphi, June 2003 (Invited)
    
69. 
    ‘A Glimpse of the Secret Connexion: Harmonising Mechanisms with Counterfactuals’, Dept of Philosophy, Bogazici University, Istanbul, May 2003 (Invited)
    
70. 
    ‘Causation: Between mechanisms and Counterfactuals’, California Institute of Technology May 2003 (Invited)
    
71. 
    ‘Causation: Between mechanisms and Counterfactuals’, University of California San Diego, May 2003 (Invited)
    
72. 
    ‘Laws and Invariance’ Workshop Metaphysics in Science, University of Edinburgh, December 2002 (Invited)
    
73. 
    ‘Cartwright’s Realist Toil: From Entities to Capacities’ Workshop Nancy Cartwright’s Philosophy of Science, University of Konstanz, December 2002 (Invited)
    
74. 
    ‘Tracking the Real: Through Thick and Thin’, Annual BSPS conference, University of Glasgow, July 2002 (Invited)
    
75. 
    ‘Is There a Place for Inference to the Best Explanation Within Bayesianism?’ Workshop ‘Deduction and Induction in the Sciences’, University of Vienna, July 2002 (Invited)
    
76. 
    ‘Scientific Realism’ and ‘Simply the Best: A Case for Abduction’ Summer School on Inference to the Best Explanation, University of Iceland, September 2001 (Invited)
    
77. 
    ‘Stroud’s Dilemma: Trouble for Physicalism?’ Workshop on Barry Stroud’s The Quest for Colour, (with a reply by Barry Stroud), University of Athens, June 2001 (Invited)
    
78. 
    ‘Is Structural Realism Possible?’ PSA 2000, Vancouver, November 2000
    
79. 
    ‘Is Structural Realism Possible?’ Lunch-time seminar at the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, November 2000 (Invited)
    
80. 
    ‘Naturalist Check-Points’ 3^rd Athens-Pittsburgh conference on Experience and Knowledge, University of Crete, October 2000 (Invited)
    
81. 
    ‘Is Structural Realism Possible?’ Annual BSPS conference, University of Sheffield, July 2000
    
82. 
    ‘On the History of the ‘Received View of Theories’: Some Hempellian Themes’ (with Demetris Portides) 3^rd HOPOS Conference, University of Vienna, July 2000
    
83. 
    ‘The present State of the Scientific Realism Debate’ Conference 100 Years of Philosophy, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, May 2000 (Invited)
    
84. 
    ‘How Not to Structure Realism’ 11th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and the Philosophy of Science, Krakow, Poland, August 1999
    
85. 
    ‘Carnap and Incommensurability’ Conference Incommensurability and Related Matters, Hannover, June 1999
    
86. 
    ‘Theories as Complexes of Representational Media’ (co-authored with Robin Hendry) PSA 1998, Kansas City, October 1998
    
87. 
    ‘Abduction: Between Conceptual Richness and Computational Complexity’ Annual BSPS conference, University of Reading, September 1998 (Invited)
    
88. 
    ‘What Comes First, Explanation or Causation?’ Conference Cognitive Theory of Social Action, Turin, June 1998 (Invited)
    
89. 
    ‘Understanding Scientific Progress’, Oxford Philosophical Society, April 1998.
    
90. 
    ‘Ramsey on Scientific Theories’ Conference The Philosophy of F. P. Ramsey, Kings College London, November 1997 (Invited)
    
91. 
    ‘How Not to Structure Realism’: Annual BSPS conference, University of Oxford, September 1997 (Invited)
    
92. 
    ‘Is There a Logic of Abduction?’, First Panhellenic Symposium on Logic, University of Cyprus, July 1997
    
93. 
    ‘Constructing Carnap’s Empiricism’, Workshop Aspects of Empiricism: The Philosophy of Bas C. van Fraassen, University of Nejmegen, Holland, November 1996
    
94. 
    ‘Scientific Realism and the “Pessimistic Induction”’ PSA 1996, Cleveland OH, November 1996
    
95. 
    ‘Carnap’s Adventures in Theory-Land’ Conference The Legacy of Empiricism, University of Edinburgh, September 1996
    
96. 
    ‘Ampliative Reasoning: Abduction or Induction?’ Workshop Abductive and Inductive Reasoning (under the auspices of the European Conference of Artificial Intelligence 96), Budapest, August 1996
    
97. 
    ‘Scientific Realism and the Pessimistic Induction’ Annual BSPS conference, University of Leeds, September 1995 (Invited)
    
98. 
    ‘Ronald Giere Meets Henri Poincare: Models and Principles in Science’ 10th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Florence, August 1995
    
99. 
    ‘Is Structural Realism the Best of Both Worlds?’ Conference Structural Realism and the Pessimistic Meta-Induction, Centre for the Philosophy of the Natural and Social Sciences, LSE, February 1995
    
100. 
     ‘The Cognitive Interplay Between Theories and Models’, Conference Theories and Models in Scientific Processes, Warsaw, August 1994.
     
101. 
     ‘Poincare’s Conception of Mechanical Explanation’ Gongres International Henri Poincare, Nancy, France, May 1994
     
102. 
     ‘Abduction and Truth’ Annual BSPS conference, (post-graduate session), University of St. Andrews, September 1993
     
103. 
     ‘Laplace and the Caloric Theory of Heat: A case of Ad Hoc Modifications’ 19th International Congress of History of Science, University of Zaragoza, Spain, August 1993
     
104. 
     ‘Objectivity and Scientific Realism’, Conference on Objectivity, Birkbeck College, London, November 1992
     
105. 
     ‘Scientific Realism and Underdetermination of Theories by Evidence’, Annual BSPS conference, (post-graduate session), University of Durham, September 1992
     
106. 
     ‘Conceptions and Misconceptions of Ether’, Physical Interpretations of Relativity Theory, Imperial College London, June 1992
     

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