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Books Edited

• (2011) Probabilities, Causes and Propensities in Physics, Synthese Library, vol. 347, Dordrecht: Springer.
• (2010b) EPSA Launch of the European Philosophy of Science Association, Vol I: Epistemology and Methodology of Science. Coedited with Mauro Dorato and Miklós Rédei, Dordrecht: Springer.
• (2010a) EPSA Launch of European Philosophy of Science Association, Vol. II: Philosophical Issues in the Sciences. Coedited with Mauro Dorato and Miklós Rédei, Dordrecht: Springer.
• (2009)Fictions in Science: Philosophical Essays on Modeling and Idealisation, London: Routledge. Reviews by Chris Pincock (International Studies in the Philosophy of Science), Xavier de Donato (Theoria), Adam Toon (Metascience).

Articles and Book Chapters:

• (2012c) "Propensities and Pragmatism", forthcoming in The Journal of Philosophy.
• (2012b) "Science, Philosophy and the A Priori", Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, vol. 43, 1, pp. 1-6.
• (2012a), "The Ample Modelling Mind", Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, vol. 43, 1, pp. 213-217.
• (2011c) "Scientific Realism, the Galilean Strategy, and Representation", in W. González (ed.), Scientific Realism and Democratic Society: The Philosophy of Philip Kitcher, Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, vol. 101, pp. 269-293. Amsterdam / New York: Rodopi.
• (2011b) "Causal Markov, Robustness and the Quantum Correlations" (with Iñaki San Pedro), in M. Suárez (ed.), Probabilities, Causes and Propensities in Physics, Synthese Library 347, Springer, Berlin and New York, pp. 173-193.
• (2011a) "Four Theses on Probabilities, Causes, Propensities", in M. Suárez (ed.), Probabilities, Causes and Propensities in Physics, Synthese Library 347, Springer, Berlin and New York, pp. 1-37.
• (2010b), "Fictions, Inference, and Realism", in J. Woods (ed.), Fictions and Models: New Essays, Philosophia Verlag, Munich, pp. 225-245.
• (2010a) "Scientific Representation", Philosophy Compass 5 (1): pp. 91-101. Blackwell.
• (2009e) “The Many Metaphysics within Physics", Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 40, pp. 273-76.
• (2009d) “La Filosofía de la Economía y de la Ciencia de Nancy Cartwright: Una Retrospectiva Panorámica" in J. C. García-Bermejo (ed.), Sobre la Economía y sus Métodos, Enciclopedia Iberoamericana de Filosofía, Editorial Trotta, pp. 383-394.
• (2009c), “The Principle of Common Cause and Indeterminism: A Review" (with Iñaki San Pedro), in J. L. González Recio (Ed.), Philosophical Essays on Physics and Biology, Georg Olms Verlag, pp. 223-250. Prepublished as Technical Paper (2008).
• (2009b) "Scientific Fictions as Rules of Inference", in M. Suárez (ed.), Fictions in Science: Philosophical Essays on Modeling and Idealization, Routledge, pp. 158-178.
• (2009a) “Fictions in Scientific Practice", in Fictions in Science: Philosophical Essays on Modeling and Idealisation, Routledge, pp. 1-15.
• (2008c) "Harré needs no Realism", in L. Soler, H. Sankey and P. Hoyningen-Huene (eds.), Rethinking Scientific Change and Theory Comparison: Stabilities, Ruptures, Incommensurabilities, Springer, pp. 239-243.
• (2008b) "Experimental Realism Reconsidered: How Inference to the Most Probable Cause Might be Sound", in S. Hartmann, C. Hoefer and L. Bovens (eds.), Nancy Cartwright's Philosophy of Science, Routledge, pp. 137-163.
• (2008a) "Theories: Tools vs. Models" (with Nancy Cartwright), Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 39, pp. 62-81
• (2007b) "Quantum Propensities", in Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 38, pp. 418-438.
• (2007a) "Causal inference in quantum mechanics: A Reassessment", in F. Russo and J. Williamson (eds.), Causality and Probability in the Sciences, London College, pp. 65-106. 
• (2006) “On the Analogy between Cognitive Representation and Truth" (with Albert Solé), Theoria, 55, pp. 27-36.
• (2005c) “Cassirer según Mormann: ¿Idealización o Abstracción?", in E. Txapartegi (ed.), La Constitución de los Objetos en la Ciencia: Cualidades, Propiedades, Objetos, Editorial Brujas, pp. 123-134.
• (2005b) "Procesos Causales, Realismo y Mecánica Cuántica", in Enrahonar, 37, pp. 141-168.
• (2005a) "The Semantic View, Empirical Adequacy and Application", Crítica, 37, 109, pp. 29-63.
• (2004f) "An Inferential Conception of Scientific Representation", Philosophy of Science, 71, pp. 767-779.
• (2004e) "Causal Processes and Propensities in Quantum Mechanics", in Suárez and Bird (eds.), Dispositions, Causes and Propensities in Science, Theoria, vol. 19 no. 3, September 2004, pp. 271-300.
• (2004d) "Introduction", in M. Suárez and A. Bird (eds.), Dispositions, Causes and Propensities in Science, Theoria, 19, 3, pp. 257-58.
• (2004c) “Una Interpretación Propensionista de la Mecánica Cuántica", in Ciencia, Etica y Metafísica: En el Centenario de Karl Popper, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
• (2004b) "On Quantum Propensities: Two Arguments Revisited", Erkenntnis, 61, 1, July 2004, pp. 1-16.
• (2004a) "Quantum Selections, Propensities and the Problem of Measurement", British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 55, 2, June 2004, pp. 219-255.
• (2003b) "Hacking Kuhn", Revista de Filosofía, 28, 2, December 2003, pp. 261-284. Reprinted in P. Lorenzano and O. Nudler, Eds., (2011) El Camino desde Kuhn: La Inconmensurabilidad Hoy, Siglo XX editores, pp. 399-432.
• (2003a) "Scientific Representation: Against Similarity and Isomorphism", International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 17, 3, October 2003, pp. 225-244.
• (2001) "Kinds of Models" (with Adam Morton), in Model Validation in Hydrological Science (P. Bates and M. Anderson, eds.), John Wiley, pp. 11-21.
• (2000b) "The Many Faces of Non-Locality: Dickson on the Quantum Correlations", British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, vol. 51, no.4, pp. 882-892.
• (2000a) "Editorial Introduction", in Causality in Physics, (M. Suárez, ed.), Special issue of Theoria, vol. 15, no. 37.
• (1999d) "Epistemology in the Face of the Strong Sociology of Knowledge: A Reply to Maffie", History of the Human Sciences, vol. 12, no.4, pp. 41-48.
• (1999c) "Theories, Models and Representations", in Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery, L. Magnani, N. Nersessian and P. Thagard (eds), pp. 75-83, Plenum, New York.
• (1999b) "Non-Ideal Measurements and Physical Possibility in Quantum Mechanics" (with Marco Del Seta), in Language, Quantum, Music, M.L.Dalla Chiara et al. (eds.), pp. 183-195. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999.
• (1999a) "The Role of Models in the Application of Scientific Theories: Epistemological
  Implications" in Models as Mediating Instruments, M. Morgan and M. Morrison (eds.), pp. 168-196, Cambridge University Press, 1999.
• (1998) "Are ‘Sharp' Properties in Quantum Mechanics Always Objective Elements of Reality?" (with Harvey Brown and Guido Bacciagaluppi) in The Modal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, D.Dieks and Pieter Vermaas (eds), pp. 289-306, Kluwer, 1998.
• (1996) "On the Physical Impossibility of Ideal Quantum Measurements", in Foundations of Physics Letters, vol. 9, number 5, pp. 425-435, 1996.
• (1995) "The Tool-Box of Science" (with Nancy Cartwright and Towfic Shomar) in Theories and Models of Scientific Processes, W. Herfel, W. Krajewski, I. Niiniluoto, R. Wojcicki (eds), Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, vol. 44, pp. 137-149, 1995.
• (1994) "La Cuestión de la Causalidad en el Experimento de Einstein, Podolsky y Rosen: Una Visión Crítica", in Actas del I Congreso de la Sociedad de Lógica, Metodología y Filosofía de la Ciencia de España, UNED.

Encyclopaedia Entries:

• (2009a) "Causal Inference in EPR", in D. Greenberger, K. Hentschel, F. Weinert (Eds), Compendium of Quantum Physics: Concepts, Experiments, History and Philosophy, Berlin: Springer, pp. 93-96.
• (2009b) "Propensities in Quantum Mechanics", in D. Greenberger, K. Hentschel, F. Weinert (Eds), Compendium on Quantum Physics: Concepts, Experiments, History and Philosophy, Berlin: Springer, pp. 502-505.
• (2009c) "Quantum State Diffusion Theory (QSD)", in D. Greenberger, K. Hentschel, F. Weinert (Eds.), Compendium on Quantum Physics: Concepts, Experiments, History and Philosophy, Springer, p. 608 

Edited Collections:

• (2012) The Dynamics of Reason Reconsidered: Essays in Honor of Michael Friedman, special issue of Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, in press. (Co-edited with Thomas Uebel).
• (2004) Dispositions, Causes and Propensities in Science, special issue of Theoria, vol. 19 no. 3, September 2004, pp. 271-300. (Co-edited with Alexander Bird).
• (2000) Causality in Physics, special issue of Theoria, vol. 15, no. 37; with contributions by Phil Dowe, Jordi Cat, Joseph Berkovitz, Erik Curiel, Nancy Cartwright.
  

Technical Papers (LSE Discussion Paper Series)

• (2008) "The Principle of Common Cause and Indeterminism: A Review" (with Iñaki San Pedro), LSE CPNSS Contingency and Dissent in Science Project Technical Report 07/08. October 2008.
• (2007) "EPR, Robustness and the Causal Markov Condition" (with Iñaki San Pedro), LSE Philosophy Papers, PP/04/07. August 2007.
• (2006b) "Propensities in Quantum Mechanics", LSE CPNSS Discussion Paper 80/06. April 2006.
• (2006a) "Experimental Realism Defended: How Inference to the Most Probable Cause Might be Sound", LSE CPNSS Contingency and Dissent Project Technical Report 01/06. January 2006.
• (2002) "The Pragmatics of Scientific Representation", LSE CPNSS Discussion Paper 66/02. October 2002.
• (2001b) "Selections, Dispositions and the Measurement Problem", LSE CPNSS Discussion Paper 57/01. October 2001.
• (2001a) "A Causal Model for EPR" (with Nancy Cartwright), LSE CPNSS Discussion Paper 55/2000. December 2000.

Book Reviews:

• (2011b) B. van Fraassen, Scientific Representation, in Metascience, 20, pp. 417-442: http://www.springer.com/philosophy/epistemology+and+philosophy+of+science/journal/11016
• (2011a) D. H. Mellor, Probability: A Philosophical Introduction, in Theoria, 70, pp. 99-103.
• (2010a) RIG Hughes, The Theoretical Practices of Physics, in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 05.12.2010: http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=22049
• (2002) Ronald Giere, Science without Laws, in Mind, vol. 111, pp. 111-114.
• (2000) Ian Percival, Quantum State Diffusion (with Adam Brocklehurst), in British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 51, no. 3, pp. 527-530.
• (1996b) Norton Wise (ed), The Values of Precision, in British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 47, pp. 483-486.
• (1996a) "In Defence of Scientific Realism: A review of Michael Redhead's From Physics to Metaphysics" in Physics Today, vol. 9, no.3, pp. 55-56.
• (1994) David Albert, Quantum Mechanics and Experience in Erkenntnis, 40, pp. 403-406.

Miscellanea

• (2009) "Interview with Mauricio Suárez", Real Colegio Complutense Bulletin 50, pp. 2-3.
• (2008a) S. Psillos and M. Suárez, First Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association, Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 39, 1, pp. 157-159.
• (2008b) I. San Pedro, M. Suárez and A. Sus, European Philosophy of Science Association, The Reasoner, vol. 2, 2, pp. 9-10.

PhD Thesis

• Models of the World, Data-Models and the Practice of Science: The Semantics of Quantum Theory, London School of Economics, August 1997.

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