Selected Papers

  • “Perspectives, Representation and Integration”, in M. Massimi and C.D. McCoy (eds.): Understanding Perspectivism: Scientific Challenges and Methodological Prospects, Taylor & Francis 2020
  •  “Instrumental Perspectivism: Is AI Machine Learning Technology like NMR Spectroscopy?”, in M. Bertolaso and F. Sterpetti (eds) Will Science Remain Human, Springer 2020
  • “"Why after 50 years are Protein X-ray Crystallographers still in Business??” with Angela M. Gronenborn, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2017
  •  “Multilevel Research Strategies and Biological Systems”, with Maureen A. O’Malley, Ingo Brigandt, Alan C. Love, John W. Crawford, Jack A. Gilbert, Rob Knight, and Forest Rohwer, Philosophy of Science, pp. 811-828, 2014
  • “Modes of Explanation: Complex Phenomena”, in M. Lissack and A. Graber (eds.) Modes of Explanation: Affordances for Action and Prediction, Palgrave MacMillan, 2014
  • “Emergence: Logical, Functional and Dynamical Accounts” Synthese, pp. 171-186, 2012 
  • “Complexity and Explanation in Social Science” in Philosophy of the Social Sciences: Philosophical Theory and Scientific Practice, edited by Chrysostomos Mantzavinos, Cambridge University Press, pp. 130-146, 2009
  • “Explaining Complex Behavior” in K. Kendler and J. Parnas (eds), Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry: Explanation, Phenomenology and Nosology, Johns Hopkins Press, pp. 19-38, 2008
  •  “Exporting Causal Knowledge in Evolutionary and Developmental Biology” Philosophy of Science, pp. 697–706, 2008
  • “Anthropomorphism: Cross-species modeling” in R. Daston and G. Mitman (eds.) Thinking with Animals, Columbia University Press, 2005 (Reprinted in Susan Armstrong and Richard G. Botzler (eds.) The Animal Ethics Reader, Routledge 2008)
  •  “Integrative Pluralism” Biology and Philosophy, pp. 55-70, 2002
  • "Dimensions of Scientific Law" Philosophy of Science, pp. 242-265, 2000
  • "Self-organization and the evolution of division of labor" co-authored with Robert E. Page, Jr., Apidologie, pp. 101-120, 1998
  • "Function, Fitness and Disposition", Biology and Philosophy, pp. 39-54, 1995 (Reprinted in C. Allen, M. Bekoff and G. Lauder (Eds.): Nature's Purposes: Analyses of Function and Design in Biology, MIT Press, pp. 395-415, 1998)