Selected Publications

Reforming Philosophy: A Victorian Debate on Science and Society (University of Chicago Press, 2006).

“Hypotheses in 19th Century British Philosophy of Science: Herschel, Whewell, Mill,” in M. Heidelberger and G. Schiemann (eds.), The Role of the Hypothetical in the Natural Sciences (Berlin: de Gruyter Press) [in press].

“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).

“’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.

“Aliens in Science and Fiction: Introduction” (with Thomas Weber), Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 38 (September 2007): 567–69.

“Confirmation for a Modest Realism,” Philosophy of Science 72 (December 2005): 839–49.

“Consilience, Confirmation, and Realism,” in P. Achinstein (ed.) Scientific Evidence: Philosophical Theories and Applications (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005), 129–48.

“Sherlock Holmes, Scientific Detective,” Endeavour 28 (September 2004): 104–07.