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Alexander Bird

55 works· latest 2020· 5 institutionscluster: provisionalORCID 0000-0002-6244-1579

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Most cited in this library

Nature's Metaphysics2007 · 962 citations
Nature's metaphysics : laws and properties2007 · 522 citations
Dispositions and Antidotes1998 · 469 citations
What Is Scientific Progress?2007 · 243 citations
SOCIAL KNOWING: THE SOCIAL SENSE OF ‘SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE’2010 · 238 citations

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Scientific Realism and Three Problems for Inference to the Best Explanation

De Gruyter eBooks·2020·1 author·chapter

16citations

A Dispositional Account of Causation, with Some Remarks on the Ontology of Dispositions

Synthese Library/Synthese library·2020·1 author·chapter

18citations

Internalism, Externalism, and the KK Principle

Erkenntnis·2019·2 authors·Open access

44citations

Understanding the Replication Crisis as a Base Rate Fallacy

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science·2018·1 author·Open access

123citations

Against Creativity

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research·2018·2 authors·Open access

63citations

Systematicity, knowledge, and bias. How systematicity made clinical medicine a science

Synthese·2017

·1 author

·Open access

48citations

·2016·1 author·other

41citations

Overpowering: How the Powers Ontology Has Overreached Itself

Mind·2016·1 author·Open access

140citations

The metaphysics of natural kinds

Synthese·2015·1 author

95citations

Kuhn and the Historiography of Science

Boston studies in the philosophy of science·2015·1 author·chapter

14citations

Routledge eBooks·2014·1 author·book

17citations

When Is There a Group that Knows?

Oxford University Press eBooks·2014·1 author·chapter

139citations

When is There a Group that Knows?:Distributed Cognition, Scientific Knowledge, and the Social Epistemic Subject

Bristol Research (University of Bristol)·2014·1 author

32citations

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and its Significance: An Essay Review of the Fiftieth Anniversary Edition

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science·2012·1 author

48citations

What can cognitive science tell us about scientific revolutions?

THEORIA An International Journal for Theory History and Foundations of Science·2012·1 author·Open access

14citations

WHAT ARE NATURAL KINDS?1

Philosophical Perspectives·2011·2 authors

123citations

SOCIAL KNOWING: THE SOCIAL SENSE OF ‘SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE’

Philosophical Perspectives·2010·1 author

238citations

Eliminative abduction: examples from medicine

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A·2010·1 author

82citations

The epistemology of science—a bird’s-eye view

Synthese·2010·1 author

42citations

Discovering the Essences of Natural Kinds

Bristol Research (University of Bristol)·2010·1 author·other·Open access

24citations

CAUSATION AND THE MANIFESTATION OF POWERS

Explore Bristol Research·2010·1 author·other·Open access

14citations

Essences and Natural Kinds

Routledge eBooks·2009·1 author·chapter

33citations

Scientific progress as accumulation of knowledge: a reply to Rowbottom

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A·2008·1 author

72citations

Incommensurability Naturalized

Springer eBooks·2008·1 author·chapter

35citations

Revitalizing Causality: Realism about Causality in Philosophy and Social Science

Routledge eBooks·2008·1 author·chapter

24citations

Dispositions, rules, and finks

Philosophical Studies·2007·2 authors

40citations

Nature's Metaphysics

Oxford University Press eBooks·2007·1 author·book

962citations

THE REGRESS OF PURE POWERS?

The Philosophical Quarterly·2007·1 author

93citations

What Is Scientific Progress?

Noûs·2007·1 author

243citations

Inference to the Only Explanation

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research·2007·1 author

67citations

Nature's metaphysics : laws and properties

·2007·1 author

522citations

Justified Judging

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research·2007·1 author

220citations

Philosophy Of Science

Routledge eBooks·2006·1 author·book

19citations

Potency and Modality

Synthese·2006·1 author

40citations

Defending Science -- Within Reason: Between Scientism and Cynicism

The Philosophical Review·2006·1 author

41citations

The Dispositionalist Conception of Laws

Foundations of Science·2005·1 author

152citations

Abductive Knowledge and Holmesian Inference

·2005·1 author·chapter

31citations

LAWS AND ESSENCES

Ratio·2005·1 author

75citations

V *-NATURALIZING KUHN

Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (Hardback)·2005·1 author

12citations

The ultimate argument against Armstrong's contingent necessitation view of laws

Analysis·2005·1 author

117citations

Antidotes all the way down?

THEORIA An International Journal for Theory History and Foundations of Science·2004·1 author·Open access

13citations

Kuhn, naturalism, and the positivist legacy

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A·2004·1 author

21citations

Is Evidence Non-Inferential?

The Philosophical Quarterly·2004·1 author

63citations

Kuhn, Nominalism, and Empiricism

Philosophy of Science·2003·1 author·Open access

12citations

Real Metaphysics: Essays in Honour of D.H. Mellor

·2003·1 author

72citations

Three conservative Kuhns

Social Epistemology·2003·1 author

17citations

Kuhn’s wrong turning

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A·2002·1 author

83citations

On whether some laws are necessary

Analysis·2002·1 author

22citations

Illocutionary Silencing

Pacific philosophical quarterly·2002·1 author

216citations

Necessarily, salt dissolves in water

Analysis·2001·1 author

68citations

Necessarily, salt dissolves in water

Analysis·2001·1 author

46citations

·2000·1 author·book

216citations

SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS AND INFERENCE TO THE BEST EXPLANATION

Danish Yearbook of Philosophy·1999·1 author

11citations

Dispositions and Antidotes

The Philosophical Quarterly·1998·1 author

469citations

Philosophy of science

Taylor & Francis eBooks·1998·1 author·book

111citations