Items where Author is "Worrall, John"

Article

Worrall, John (2014) Prediction and accommodation revisited. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 45 (1). pp. 54-61. ISSN 0039-3681

Worrall, John (2011) Causality in medicine: getting back to the Hill top. Preventive Medicine, 53 (4-5). pp. 235-238. ISSN 0091-7435

Worrall, John (2010) For universal rules, against induction. Philosophy of Science, 77 (5). pp. 740-753. ISSN 0031-8248

Worrall, John (2010) Evidence: philosophy of science meets medicine. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 16 (2). pp. 356-362. ISSN 1356-1294

Worrall, John (2009) Underdetermination, realism and empirical equivalence. Synthese, 180 (2). pp. 157-172. ISSN 0039-7857

Worrall, John (2008) Evidence and ethics in medicine. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 51 (3). pp. 418-431. ISSN 1529-8795

Scerri, Eric R. and Worrall, John (2001) Prediction and the periodic table. Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 32 (3). pp. 407-452. ISSN 0039-3681

Book Section

Worrall, John (2010) Do we need some large, simple randomized trials in medicine? In: Suárez, Mauricio, Dorato, Mauro and Rédei, Miklós, (eds.) Epsa Philosophical Issues in the Sciences: Launch of the European Philosophy of Science Association. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, London, UK, pp. 289-302. ISBN 9789048132515

Worrall, John (2010) Error, tests and theory confirmation. In: Mayo, Deborah G. and Spanos, Aris, (eds.) Error and Inference: Recent Exchanges on Experimental Reasoning, Reliability, and the Objectivity and Rationality of Science. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 125-154. ISBN 9780521880084

Worrall, John (2005) Theory-confirmation and history. In: Cheyne, Colin and Worrall, John, (eds.) Rationality and Reality: Conversations With Alan Musgrave. Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 31-62. ISBN 9781402042065

Worrall, John (2002) Philosophy of science: classic debates, standard problems, future prospects. In: Machamer, Peter and Silberstein, Michael, (eds.) The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Science. Blackwell philosophy guides (7). Blackwell Publishing Ltd., Oxford, pp. 18-36. ISBN 9780631221081

Worrall, John (2000) Pragmatic factors in theory-acceptance. In: Newton-Smith, William, (ed.) A Companion to the Philosophy of Science. Blackwell companions to philosophy. Blackwell Publishing Ltd., Oxford, UK, pp. 349-357. ISBN 9780631230205

Online resource

Worrall, John (2016) The placebo effect and evidence-based policy. LSE Philosophy Blog (13 Jan 2016). Website.

Worrall, John (2016) Homeopathy and evidence-based policy. LSE Philosophy Blog (07 Jan 2016). Website.