Dr Darrell Rowbottom

Recent Publications

1. Popper's Critical Rationalism: A Philosophical Investigation, London: Routledge (In Press)
2. Intuitions (ed. with Tony Booth), Oxford: Oxford University Press (In Preparation for 2011)
3. Probability, Key Concepts in Philosophy Series, Cambridge: Polity Press (In Preparation for 2012)
4. ‘The Instrumentalist's New Clothes’, Philosophy of Science (Forthcoming)
5. ‘Popper's Measure of Corroboration and P(h|b)’, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (Forthcoming)
6. ‘Bangu's Random Thoughts on Bertrand's Paradox’ (with Nick Shackel), Analysis 70, 689-692 (2010)
7. ‘Probability Theory’, in S. O. Hansson and V. F. Hendricks (eds), Handbook of Formal Philosophy (Dordrecht: Springer) (Forthcoming)
8. ‘Chance’, in R. Segal and K. von Stuckrad (eds), Vocabulary for the Study of Religion (Leiden: Brill) (Forthcoming)
9. ‘The Use and Misuse of Taxpayers' Money: Publicly-Funded Educational Research’ (with Sarah Aiston), British Educational Research Journal (In Press)
10. ‘Kuhn versus Popper on Criticism and Dogmatism in Science: A Resolution at the Group Level’, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (In Press)
11. ‘What Scientific Progress Is Not: Against Bird's Epistemic View’, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 24, 241-255 (2010)
12. ‘Evolutionary Epistemology and the Aim of Science’, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 88, 209-225 (2010)
13. ‘What's at the Bottom of Scientific Realism?’ (Essay review of H.Sankey, Scientific Realism and the Rationality of Science), Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (In Press)
14. ‘Dispositional Essentialism and the Necessity of Laws’ (with Robin Hendry), Analysis 69(4), 668-677 (2009)
15. ‘Corroboration and Auxiliary Hypotheses: Duhem's Thesis Revisited’, Synthese 177, 139-149 (2010)
16. ‘Models in Biology and Physics: What's the Difference?’, Foundations of Science 14, 281-294 (2009)
17. ‘No Dilemma for Pancritical Rationalism: In Response to Hauptli’, Philosophy of the Social Sciences 39(3), 490-494 (2009)
18. ‘To Thine Own Self Be Untrue: A Diagnosis of the Cable Guy Paradox’ (with Peter Baumann), Logique et Analyse 204, 355-364 (2009)
19. ‘The Big Test of Corroboration’, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 22(3), 293-302 (2008)
20. ‘Approximations, Idealizations and “Experiments” at the Physics-Biology Interface’, Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences (In Press)
21. ‘On the Proximity of the Logical and “Objective Bayesian” Interpretations of Probability’, Erkenntnis 69(3), 335-349 (2008)
22. ‘Stances and Paradigms: A Reflection’, Synthese (In Press)
23. ‘Why Advocate Pancritical Rationalism?’ (with Otávio Bueno), in Z. Parusniková and R. S. Cohen (eds), Rethinking Popper. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 272 (Dordrecht: Springer), 81-89 (2009)
24. ‘How to Change It: Modes of Engagement, Rationality, and Stance Voluntarism’ (with Otávio Bueno), Synthese (In Press)
25. ‘Educational Research as Science?’, in A. Reid, M. Peters, C. Russell and P. Hart (eds), Companion to Research in Education (Dordrecht: Springer) (In Press)
26. ‘N-rays and the Semantic View of Scientific Progress’, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 39, 277-278 (2008)
27. ‘Permissibility and Violable Rules’, Philosophia 36, 367-374 (2008)
28. ‘Intersubjective Corroboration’, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 39, 124-132 (2008)
29. ‘An Alternative Account of Epistemic Reasons for Action: In Response to Booth’, Grazer Philosophische Studien 76, 191-198 (2008)
30. ‘A Refutation of Foundationalism?’, Analysis 67(4), 345-346 (2007)
31. ‘Demystifying Threshold Concepts’, Journal of Philosophy of Education 41(2), 263-270 (2007)
32. ‘“In Between Believing” and Degrees of Belief’, Teorema XXVI(1), 131-137 (2007)
33. ‘The Myth of “Scientific Method” in Contemporary Educational Research’ (with Sarah Aiston), reprinted in D. Bridges and R. Smith (eds.) Philosophy, Methodology, and Educational Research (Oxford: Blackwell) (2007)