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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Stathis Psillos is affiliated with the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece and has contributed extensively to the fields of Arts and Humanities as well as Psychology. Their research work primarily focuses on the History and Philosophy of Science, Philosophy, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Global and Planetary Change, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

Their main topics of investigation cover Philosophy and History of Science, Philosophy and Theoretical Science, Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics, Science and Climate Studies, Historical Philosophy and Science, Free Will and Agency, and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment.

Their recent published papers include the following:

  • Scientific Ontology: Fact or Stance? (2021), published in Dialogue
  • Resisting scientific anti-realism (2020), published in Metascience
  • Against Cognitive Instrumentalism (2020), published in International Studies in the Philosophy of Science
  • Governing Laws and the Inference Problem (2021), published in Grazer Philosophische Studien
  • No laws and (thin) powers in, no (governing) laws out (2020), published in European Journal for Philosophy of Science

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Stathis Psillos include:

  • Stavros Ioannidis
  • Vassilis Livanios
  • Konstantina Antiochou
  • Elina Pechlivanidi
  • Lisa Zorzato

Their contributions have appeared repeatedly in several publication venues. Notably, they have published multiple times in Metascience and the Journal for General Philosophy of Science, with additional works in Grazer Philosophische Studien, European Journal for Philosophy of Science, and Dialogue.

Among their book publications, Stathis Psillos has released Mechanisms in Science through Cambridge University Press in 2022.

In recognition of their work, Stathis Psillos was appointed as a Member of Academia Europaea in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Scientific Realism: How Science Tracks Truth

    Stathis Psillos

  • Causation and Explanation

    Stathis Psillos

  • The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science

    Martin Curd;Stathis Psillos

  • On Van Fraassen's Critique of Abductive Reasoning

    Stathis Psillos

  • Knowing the Structure of Nature: Essays on Realism and Explanation

    Stathis Psillos

  • Simply the Best: A Case for Abduction

    Stathis Psillos

  • The Structure, the Whole Structure, and Nothing but the Structure?

    Stathis Psillos

  • Scientific Realism and the 'Pessimistic Induction'

    Stathis Psillos

  • A Glimpse of the Secret Connexion: Harmonizing Mechanisms with Counterfactuals

    Stathis Psillos

  • What Do Powers Do When They Are Not Manifested

    Stathis Psillos

  • Knowing the Structure of Nature

    Stathis Psillos

  • Is Structural Realism Possible

    Stathis Psillos

  • The Fine Structure of Inference to the Best Explanation

    Stathis Psillos

  • An Explorer upon Untrodden Ground: Peirce on Abduction

    Stathis Psillos

  • A philosophical study of the transition from the caloric theory of heat to thermodynamics: Resisting the pessimistic meta-induction

    Stathis Psillos

  • The present state of the scientific realism debate

    Stathis Psillos

  • Inference to the Best Explanation and Bayesianism

    Stathis Psillos

  • Rudolf Carnap's `Theoretical Concepts in Science'

    Stathis Psillos

  • Is Structural Realism Possible?

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  • Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science

    Stathis Psillos;Martin Curd

  • Scientific Realism and the Rationality of Science

    Stathis Psillos

  • Scientific Realism: Between Platonism and Nominalism

    Stathis Psillos

  • A Metaphysics For Scientific Realism: Knowing The Unobservable

    Dimitris Papayannakos;Stathis Psillos

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven French
Steven French University of Leeds
Bas C. van Fraassen
Bas C. van Fraassen San Francisco State University
Brian Skyrms
Brian Skyrms University of California, Irvine
Patrick Suppes
Patrick Suppes Stanford University
Nancy Cartwright
Nancy Cartwright Durham University

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