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See also books, especially The Comprehensibility of the Universe, Is Science Neurotic? and ch. 14 of 2nd ed. of From Knowledge to Wisdom, and Contributions to Books.
Induction and Scientific Realism: Einstein versus van Fraassen. Part One: How to Solve the Problem of Induction, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 44, 1993, pp. 61-79.
Induction and Scientific Realism: Einstein versus van Fraassen. Part Two: Aim-Oriented Empiricism and Scientific Essentialism, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 44, 1993, pp. 81-101
Induction and Scientific Realism: Einstein versus van Fraassen. Part Three: Einstein, Aim-Oriented Empiricism and the Discovery of Special and General Relativity, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 44, 1993, pp. 275-305.
Must Science Make Cosmological Assumptions if it is to be Rational?, in The Philosophy of Science: Proceedings of the Irish Philosophical Society Spring Conference, edited by T. Kelly, Irish Philosophical Society, Maynooth, 1997, pp. 98-146.
Is the Universe Comprehensible?, The Ethical Record, vol. 192, No. 3, March 1998, pp. 3-6.
Has Science Established that the Universe is Comprehensible?, Cogito 13, 1999, pp. 139-145.
A new conception of science, Physics World 13, No. 8, 2000, pp. 17-18.
The Human World in the Physical Universe: Consciousness, Free Will and Evolution, Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland, 2001, Appendix 3.
Is Science Neurotic? Metaphilosophy 33, no. 3, April 2002, pp. 259-299.
The Need for a Revolution in the Philosophy of Science, Journal for General Philosophy of Science 33, 2002, pp. 381-408.
Popper, Kuhn, Lakatos and Aim-Oriented Empiricism, Philosophia, 2005, 32, nos. 1-4, pp. 181-239.
Is Science Neurotic?, Philosophy Now, Issue 51, June/July 2005, pp. 30-33.
Science under Attack, The Philosopher’s Magazine, Issue 31, 3rd Quarter 2005, pp. 37-41.
Practical Certainty and Cosmological Conjectures, in Is there Certain Knowledge?, ed. Michael Rahnfeld, Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leibzig, 2006, pp. 44-59.
Do We Need a Scientific Revolution?, Journal for Biological Physics and Chemistry, vol. 8, no. 3, September 2008, pp. 95-105.
The Metaphysics of Science: An Account of Modern Science in Terms of Principles, Laws and Theories (review of book by Craig Dilworth), International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 23, no. 2, July 2009, pp. 228-232.
Muller’s Critique of the Argument for Aim-Oriented Empiricism, Journal for General Philosophy of Science, vol. 40, 2009, pp. 103-114.
Scientists should stop deceiving us, The Guardian, 12 March, 2010, p. 35.
Cutting God in Half – And Putting the Pieces Together Again: A New Approach to Philosophy, Pentire Press, London, Chapter 5.
A Priori Conjectural Knowledge in Physics, in What Place for the A Priori?, edited by Michael Shaffer and Michael Veber, Open Court, Chicago, 2011, pp. 211-240.
In Praise of Natural Philosophy: A Revolution for Thought and Life, Philosophia, 2012, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 705-715.
Has Science Established that the Cosmos is Physically Comprehensible?, in Recent Advances in Cosmology, 2013, Travena, A and Soen, B. (eds), Nova Publishers Inc, New York, Chapter One, pp. 1-56.
Taking the Nature of God Seriously, in Models of God and Other Ultimate Realities, ed. Jeanine Diller and Asa Kasher, 2013, Springer 2013, pp. 585-597.
Unification and Revolution: A Paradigm for Paradigms, Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 2014, vol. 45, issue 1, pp. 133-49.
Three Criticisms of Newton’s Inductive Argument in the Principia, Advances in Historical Studies, 2014, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 2-11.
What’s Wrong With Aim-Oriented Empiricism?, Acta Baltica Historiae et Philosophiae Scientiarum, 2015, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 5-31.
Popper’s Paradoxical Pursuit of Natural Philosophy, in Cambridge Companion to Popper, 2016, edited by Jeremy Shearmur and Geoffrey Stokes, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, ch. 7, pp. 170-207.
In Praise of Natural Philosophy: A Revolution for Thought and Life 2017, McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal
Understanding Scientific Progress: Aim-Oriented Empiricism, 2017, Paragon House, St. Paul, MN.
Karl Popper, Science and Enlightenment, 2017, UCL Press, London. [open access book, free to download]
What’s Wrong with HPS and What Needs be Done to Put it Right?, HPS & ST Note, 22 June, 2017, pp. 10-22.
We Need to Recreate Natural Philosophy, Philosophies, 2018, 3(4), 28, pp. 1-25.
A New Task for Philosophy of Science, Metaphilosophy, 2019, vol. 50, no. 3, pp. 316-338.
Aim-Oriented Empiricism and the Metaphysics of Science, Philosophia, 8 March, 2019.
Natural philosophy redux, Aeon, 13 May 2019,
The Metaphysics of Science and Aim-Oriented Empiricism, HPS & ST Note, May 2019, pp. 13-17.
Science and Enlightenment: Two Great Problems of Learning, 2019, Springer, Cham, Switzerland.
The Metaphysics of Science and Aim-Oriented Empiricism: A Revolution for Science and Philosophy, 2019, Springer, Cham, Switzerland.
Our Fundamental Problem: A Revolutionary Approach to Philosophy, July, 2020, McGill-Queen’s University Press.
