Discussion Papers

The paper listed below were partly supported by The Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRC; Grant B/RG/AN1489/APN19296).

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2009

• Optimism about the Pessimistic Induction
  Sherrilyn Roush
• Science Advice as Procedural Rationality: Reflections on the National Research Council
  Michael Feuer
• The Nazi Cosmetic: Nazi Aesthetics in Action and the Practice of Medicine in Nazi Germany
  Sophia Efstathiou
• False Numbers as Formalizing Practices
  Martha Lampland
• There is more to seeing than meets the eye: Observational Studies, Research Synthesis, and the Social Sciences
  Merete Konnerup and Hans Christian Kongsted
• Hunting Causes and Using Them: Is There No Bridge from Here to There?
  Nancy Cartwright (with Sophia Efstathiou)
• Why the distinction between basic (theoretical) and applied (practical) research is important in the politics of science
  Nils Roll-Hansen
• How to tell when efficacy will NOT translate into effectiveness
  Chris Thompson
• Adversarial Systems and the Privatization of Biomedical Research: An Epistemic Evaluation
  Justin Biddle
• Does Roush show that evidence should be probable?
  by Damien Fennell and Nancy Cartwright

2008

• Is structural econometrics evidence-based?
  Damien Fennell
• Norms of Dissent
  Miriam Solomon
• A Theory of Evidence for Evidence-Based Policy
  by Nancy Cartwright (with Jacob Stegenga)
• The Principle of Common Cause and Indeterminism: A Review
  by Iñaki San Pedro and Mauricio Suárez
• Neglected Diseases and Well-Ordered Science
  by Julian Reiss and Philip Kitcher
• Models and Fiction
  by Roman Frigg
• Imagination in the Deliberation Process
  by Philipp Dorstewitz
• Double-Blinding: The Benefits and Risks of Being in the Dark
  by Jeremy Howick
• From Chicken Little to Dr. Pangloss: William Nierenberg, Global Warming, and the Social Deconstruction of Scientific Knowledge
  by Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway and Matthew Shindell
• Challenging Knowledge: How Climate Science Became a Victim of the Cold War
  by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway

2007

• Evidence-based policy: Where is our theory of evidence?
  by Nancy Cartwright, with Andrew Goldfinch and Jeremy Howick
• Why and When Should We Trust our Methods of Causal Inference? Lessons from James Heckman on RCTs and Structural Models
  by Damien Fennell
• Towards anti-individualistic foundations for decision
  by Miriam Thalos
• Causal Powers: What Are They? Why Do We Need Them? What Can Be Done with Them and What Cannot?
  by Nancy Cartwright
• What range of future scenarios should climate change policy be based on? -Modal falsificationism and its limitations
  by Gregor Betz
• Are RCTs the Gold Standard?
  by Nancy Cartwright

2006

• Why Functional Form Matters in Structural Models in Econometrics
  by Damien Fennell
• The Error Term and its Interpretation in Structural Models in Econometrics
  by Damien Fennell
• Background 'Assumptions' and the Grammar of Conceptual Change: Rescuing Kuhn by Means of Wittgenstein
  by Aristides Baltas
• The Problem of Purpose in Quality of Life Research
  by Leah McClimans
  LSE eprint 00000794
• Experimental Realism Defended: How Inference to the Most Likely Cause Might Be Sound
  by Mauricio Suárez
  LSE eprint 00000707