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Recent Publications:
"More Telltale Signs: What Attention to Representation Reveals about Scientific Explanation", PSA 2002 Proceedings, Philosophy of Science 71:780-793 (2004).
"Telltale Signs: What Common Explanatory Strategies in Chemistry Reveal about Explanation Itself", Foundations of Chemistry 6:13-43 (2004).
"On Explanatory Practice and Disciplinary Identity", Chemical Explanation: Characteristics, Development, Autonomy. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 988: 22-29 (2003). [www.annalsnyas.org]
With Clark Glymour, "Missing Elements: What Philosophers of Science Might Discover in Chemistry", Of Minds and Molecules: New Philosophical Perspectives on Chemistry, N. Bhushan and S. Rosenfeld, eds., Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 17-33.
"Putting Quantum Mechanics
to Work in Chemistry: The Power of Diagrammatic Representation", Philosophy
of Science 67 (Proceedings): S612-S627 (2000).