Selected Publications (all rights in all papers reproduced here belong to the author).

A complete list of publications (© copyright reserved) is also available.

•  [with Rupert Thorp] Croquet and How to Play It. London: Faber & Faber 1966.
• [translator] Introduction to Axiomatic Set Theory. English translation of J-L Krivine, Théorie Axiomatique des Ensembles. Dordrecht: D Reidel Publishing Co 1971.
• [editor] A Pocket Popper. London: Fontana, 1983.  Now available in English only as   Popper Selections. Princeton: Princeton University Press 1985.

       Editions in Albanian, Chinese, Georgian, German, Italian,

        Lithuanian, Romanian, Spanish, and Swedish. 

• [with KR Popper] 'Why Probabilistic Support Is Not Inductive', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 321, 1562, 30/4/1987, pp. 569-591. Bibliography*. Addenda * (2003, 2008) by DWM.
• 'Some Accounting for Tastes'* In To Myself from Others. Essays Presented to Don Locke on the Occasion of His Retirement 1989, pp.58f. Coventry:  Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick, 1989. Digitally remastered, September 2005.
• 'Reply to Zwirn & Zwirn'*. A comment on D. Zwirn & H.P. Zwirn (1989), 'L'argument de Popper et Miller contre la justification probabiliste de l'induction'. First published in Cahiers du CREA, 14, 1990, pp.149-153. Paris: École Polytechnique. Digitally remastered, January 2008.
• 'The Disposition of Complete Theories'. First published in Coleção Documentos: Série Lógica e Teoria da Ciência 10, agosto de 1992. Instituto de Estudos Avançados, Universidade de São Paulo. Digitally remastered, February-March 2009.
• Critical Rationalism: A Restatement & Defence. Chicago & La Salle: Open Court Publishing Co,  1994
• [with Karl Popper] 'Contributions to the Formal Theory of Probability'. In Paul Humphreys, editor, Patrick Suppes: Scientific Philosopher, Volume 1: Probability & Probabilistic Causality, pp.3-23. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1994.
• Russell, Tarski, Gödel: An Internal Study Aid.  Coventry:  Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick, 1985.  Portuguese edition: 'Russell, Tarski, Gödel: Um Guia de Estudos'. Ciência e Filosofia 5, 1995, pp.67-105.
• 'What Use is Empirical Confirmation?' Economics & Philosophy 12, 1996, pp.197-206.
• 'Sir Karl Raimund Popper, CH, FBA'. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of The Royal Society of London 43, 1997,  pp. 367-409. Italian edition : Sir Karl Popper. Una biografia scientifica, Biblioteca Austriaca (Documento 9). Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino Editore. This paper has been reprinted as Chapter 1 of the author's Out of Error, Ashgate 2006.
• 'Is Scientific Knowledge an Inexhaustible Economic Resource?'. The Critical Rationalist 3, 1, 1998.
• 'Being an Absolute Skeptic'. Science 284, 5420, 4 June 1999, pp.1625f. This paper has been reprinted as Chapter 7 of the author's Out of Error, Ashgate 2006.
• 'Popper and Tarski'. In Ian Jarvie & Sandra Pralong, editors,  Popper's Open Society After Fifty Years: the Continuing Relevance of Karl Popper, pp.56-70. London: Routledge 1999.  No longer available on line. This paper has been reprinted (with corrections and improvements) as Chapter 9 of the author's Out of Error, Ashgate 2006.
• 'Word Games for Formal Logic'*. In Proceedings of the First International Congress on Tools for Teaching Logic, pp.89-93. University of Salamanca, 2000.
• An updated version of the English version of the foreword* to Ezagutza objektiboa. Ikusmolde ebolutibo bat, the Euskaran translation of Objective Knowledge by Karl Popper. Donostia / San Sebastián: Klasikoak S.A., 2003.
• 'Sokal and Bricmont: Back to the Frying Pan'*. Pli 9, 2000, pp.156-73. This paper has been reprinted as Chapter 6 of the author's Out of Error, Ashgate 2006.
• 'Beauty, a Road to the Truth?'. No longer available on line. This paper has been published in Roberto Festa, Atocha Aliseda, & Jeanne Peijnenburg, editors, Confirmation, Empirical Progress, and Truth Approximation, Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam/Atlanta, pp.341-355, and reprinted (with corrections and improvements) as Chapter 10 of the author's Out of Error, Ashgate 2006.
• 'Induction: A Problem Solved'.  In J.M. Böhm, H. Holweg, & C. Hoock, editors, Karl Poppers kritischer Rationalismus heute, pp.81-106. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2002. No longer available on line. This paper has been reprinted (with corrections and improvements) as Chapter 5 of the author's Out of Error, Ashgate 2006.
• 'Propensities May Satisfy Bayes's Theorem'. Proceedings of the British Academy 113, 2002, pp.111-116.
• 'Do We Reason When We Think We Reason, or Do We Think?'*. Learning for Democracy 1, 3, 2005, pp.57-71. For comments by Trudy Govier and Philip Adey, and my reply, you will need to consult the journal in hard copy. Spanish translation: ' ¿Razonamos cuando pensamos que razonamos o pensamos?'*. Eidos (Barranquilla) 7, 2007, pp.88-108.
• Out of Error. Further Essays on Critical Rationalism. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company 2006. 
•       [with Ian Jarvie & Karl Milford, editors] Karl Popper: A Centenary Assessment (3 volumes). Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company 2006.  
• 'Darwinism is the Application of Situational Logic to the State of Ignorance'. In Ian Jarvie, Karl Milford, and David Miller, editors, Karl Popper: A Centenary Assessment, Volume III. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company 2006. Spanish translation (of the original extended version): 'El modo único para aprender'*.  Estudios de Filosofía (Medellín), 36, 2007, pp.25-39.
• 'The Objectives of Science'*.  Philosophia Scientiæ 11, 1, 2007, pp.21-43.
• 'Falsabilidad – ¿Más que una Convención?'*.  Spanish translation of the lecture on which Chapter 4 of Out of Error is based.
  
• 'Tres pasos de las frecuencias a las propensiones'*.  Praxis Filosófica (Cali), ns 24, 2007, pp.5-20.
  
• 'Overcoming the Justificationist Addiction'*. Iranian Journal of Philosophical Investigations 4, 11, 2007, pp.167-182. Persian translation by Ali Paya: 'Ghalabeh bar Eʻtiyād beh Movajjah Sāzī', .pdf, .docx. Spanish translation by Carlos Emilio García: 'Superando la adicción justificacionista'*.  Discusiones Filosóficas (Manizales), 11, 2007, pp.17-32. Polish translation by Roman Tuziak: 'Wychodzac z Justyfikacyjnego Uzaleznienia', Studia Philosophica Wratislaviensia III, 1, 2008, pp.9-18. Japanese translation by Teruhisa Se: 'Seitoukashugi-chudoku no kokufuku', Popper Letters (Tokyo) 20, 2, January 2009, pp.4-11.

• 'Truth Defined'.* In Walter A. Carnielli, Marcelo E. Coniglio, & Ítala M. Loffredo D'Ottaviano, editors, The Many Sides of Logic, College Publications, London, 2009, pp.105-131.

Unpublished Papers (all rights in all these papers belong to the author):

• 'Probabilistic Substitutivity at a Reduced Price'*. Revised version, December 2009.
• 'Reasoning: Control, not Command'*
• 'Solution to a Generalization of the Busy Beaver Problem'*
• 'How Does Probability Theory Generalize Logic?'*. Slides for a talk given at Sextas Jornadas Rolando Chuaqui, Santiago de Chile, May 2004.
• 'Smith's Defence of Approximate Truth'*. No longer available on line. The material is now to be found in Chapter 11 of Out of Error, Ashgate 2006.
• 'A Refined Geometry of Logic'*. No longer available on line. The paper will appear in due course in Principia (Florianópolis).
• 'Haciendo trabajar a la ciencia'*.  La conferencia inaugural de un seminario semanal organizado por la Facultad de Ingeniería de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia (sede Bogotá) en el segundo semestre de 2006.
  
• 'Lattice-valued Probability'*.
• A Rejoinder* to Nicholas Maxwell's posting 'Aim-Oriented Empiricism: David Miller's Critique'.
• 'La toma deductivista de decisiones'*.  Diapositivas para una conferencia presentada al encuentro Refutaciones y Conjeturas: la recepción del pensamiento de Popper en Colombia, Universidad de Caldas, Manizales, abril 2008.  English version (revised): 'Deductivist Decision Making'.*  A lecture given at the meeting Kritischer Rationalismus heute - Internationales und Interuniversitäres Symposium zur Aktualität der Philosophie Karl Poppers, Graz--Klagenfurt, Austria, November 2008. Temporarily unavailable on line.
• 'Some Hard Questions for Critical Rationalism'.*  Based on a lecture given at the conference Rethinking Popper, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, September 2007.
• 'Verdades Antiguas y Modernas'.*  Una conferencia presentada al XVII Foro Nacional de Filosofía, Universidad de Caldas, Manizales, septiembre 2009.

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