Selected Publications
The Philosophical Breakfast Club: Four Remarkable Men who
Transformed Science and Changed the World
(Broadway Books, 2011; ppbk 2012)
Reforming Philosophy: A Victorian Debate on Science and Society
(University of Chicago Press, 2006)
“Gift Guide: Science Books,” Wall Street Journal, November 17,
2012, p. C12. (
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203846804578102910711979712.html)
“A Laboratory of Her Own,” Review of Robyn Arianrhod, Seduced by
Logic, The Wall Street Journal, November 14, 2012, p. A15 (
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203846804578101343958970144.html)
“How the Fittest Theory Survived,” Review of Rebecca Stott,
Darwin’s Ghosts, The Wall Street Journal. July 5, 2012, p.
A9. (
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303703004577476800626591224.html)
“The Perfected Yardstick,” Review of Robert P. Crease,
World in the Balance, The Wall Street Journal, October 28, 2011, p.
A. (
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204618704576645310513854614.html)
“Wanted: Another Scientific Revolution,” The Scientist 25 (May
2011): 70. (
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/30517/title/Wanted--Another-Scientific-Revolution/)
”Science for Sale,” Review of A. Fyfe and B. Lightman (eds.),
Science in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century Sites and
Experiences (University of Chicago, 2007), H-net Online Reviews,
published February 2009 (http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=22999).
“Necessity and Experience: The Mill-Whewell Debate,” in James
Brown (ed.), Key Thinkers in Philosophy of Science (Continuum,
2012): 10-31.
“’The Whole Box of Tools’: William Whewell and the Logic of
Induction,” John Woods and Dov Gabbay (eds.), The Handbook of the
History of Logic, vol. VIII, 165–230 (Dordrecht: Kluwer Press,
2008).
“Freedom from Necessity: The Influence of J.S. Mill’s
Politics on his Concept of Causation,” in P. Machamer and G.
Wolters (eds.), Thinking About Causes: From Greek Philosophy to
Modern Physics (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007),
123–40.
“‘Lord only of the Ruffians and Fiends’? William Whewell and the
Plurality of Worlds Debate,” Studies in History and Philosophy of
Science 38 (September 2007): 584–92.
“Confirmation for a Modest Realism,” Philosophy of Science
72 (December 2005): 839–49.
“Sherlock Holmes, Scientific Detective,” Endeavour 28 (September
2004): 104–07.