Books

Authored Books

Causal Processes and Their Warrant: A Practical Guide (with Eileen Munro, and John Pemberton). Cambridge University Press. Under contract.

A Philosopher Looks at Science. Cambridge University Press. 2022.

Improving Child Safety: Deliberation, Judgement and Empirical Research (with Eileen Munro, Jeremy Hardie, and Eleonora Montuschi). Durham: Centre for Humanities Engaging Science and Society (CHESS). 2016.

Evidence: For Policy and Wheresoever Rigor is a Must. London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). 2013.

Evidence-Based Policy: A Practical Guide to Doing it Better (with Jeremy Hardie). Oxford University Press. 2012.

Hunting Causes and Using Them: Approaches in Philosophy and Economics. Cambridge University Press. 2007.

Causal Powers: What Are They? Why Do We Need Them? What Can be Done with Them and What Cannot? London School of Economics, Centre for the Philosophy of the Natural and Social Sciences. 2007.

Measuring Causes: Invariance, Modularity and the Causal Markov Condition. London School of Economics, Centre for the Philosophy of the Natural and Social Sciences. 2000.

The Dappled World: A Study of the Boundaries of Science. Cambridge University Press. 1999.

Otto Neurath: Philosophy between Science and Politics (with Jordi Cat, Lola Fleck, and Thomas E. Uebel). Cambridge University Press. 1996.

Nature’s Capacities and Their Measurement. Oxford University Press. 1989.

How the Laws of Physics Lie. Oxford University Press. 1983.

Edited Books

Rethinking Order: After the Laws of Nature (co-edited with Keith Ward). Bloomsbury. 2016.

Philosophy of Social Science. A New Introduction (co-edited with Eleonora Montuschi). Oxford University Press. 2014.

Idealization XII: Correcting the Models. Idealization and Abstraction in the Sciences (co-edited with Martin R. Jones). Rodopi. 2005.