Books

Causal Processes and Their Warrant

Co-authored with Eileen Munro and John Pemberton

Cambridge University Press, 2026

The Tangle of Science: Reliability Beyond Method, Rigour, and Objectivity

Co-authored with Jeremy Hardie, Eleonora Montuschi, Matthew Soleiman and Ann C. Thresher

Oxford University Press, 2022

A Philosopher Looks at Science

Cambridge University Press, 2022

Nature, the Artful Modeler: Lectures on Laws, Science, How Nature Arranges the World, and How We Can Arrange It Better

The 2017 Carus Lectures

Open Court, 2019

Improving Child Safety: Deliberation, Judgement and Empirical Research

Co-authored with with Eileen Munro, Jeremy Hardie and Eleonora Montuschi

Durham: Centre for Humanities Engaging Science and Society (CHESS), 2016

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

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

Co-authored 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

Idealization XII: Correcting the Models. Idealization and Abstraction in the Sciences

Co-edited with Martin R. Jones

Rodopi, 2005

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

Co-authored 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