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Raoul Gervais

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Projects

Projects as researcher

Varieties of causation in genetics (2014 - 2018)
Pragmatic theory of scientific explanation (2009 - 2013)

Publications

Most recent publications

van Eck, Dingmar, and Raoul Gervais. “Difference Making, Explanatory Relevance, and Mechanistic Models.” THEORIA-REVISTA DE TEORIA HISTORIA Y FUNDAMENTOS DE LA CIENCIA, vol. 31, no. 1, 2016, pp. 125–34, doi:10.1387/theoria.13282.
Weber, Erik, et al. “The ‘green Cheese’ and ‘Red Herring’ Problems Reconsidered: Epistemological versus Methodological Tasks for Philosophers of Science.” LOGIQUE ET ANALYSE, vol. 231, 2015, pp. 433–55, doi:10.2143/LEA.231.0.3141819.
Gervais, Raoul, and Erik Weber. “The Role of Orientation Experiments in Discovering Mechanisms.” STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE, vol. 54, 2015, pp. 46–55, doi:10.1016/j.shpsa.2015.08.015.
Gervais, Raoul. “Explaining Capacities : Assessing the Explanatory Power of Models in the Cognitive Sciences.” Logic, Reasoning, and Rationality, edited by Erik Weber et al., vol. 5, Springer, 2014, pp. 45–57, doi:10.1007/978-94-017-9011-6_3.
Gervais, Raoul. “A Framework for Inter-Level Explanations: Outlines for a New Explanatory Pluralism.” STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE, vol. 48, 2014, pp. 1–9, doi:10.1016/j.shpsa.2014.07.002.

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