Publications

Most Recent Publications

De Pretis, F., Landes, J., Osimani, B., & Peden, W. (forthcoming). Pharmacovigilance as personalized medicine. In C. Beneduce, M. Bertolaso (Eds.), Handbook of personalized medicine. Springer.

Osimani, B. (forthcoming). Statistical Evidence in Strategic Environments. New Directions in Philosophy of Science Series. Palgrave – Mac Millan.

Osimani, B. (forthcoming). The causal structure of epistemic environments. In C. Littlejohn and M. Lasonen (Eds.), Routledge Handbook for Philosophy of Evidence.

Gebharter, A., & Leuridan, B. (2024). Modelling cyclic causal structures. In P. M. K. Illari, & F. Russo (Eds.), Routledge handbook of causality and causal methods (pp. 269-280). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003528937-30

Gebharter, A., & Sekatskaya, M. (2024). Mental causation, interventionism, and probabilistic supervenience. Synthese. Advance online publication. doi:10.1007/s11229-024-04608-w

Sekatskaya, M., & Gebharter, A. (2024). Supervenient fixity and agential possibilities. Theoria. Advance online publication. doi:10.1111/theo.12551

Sikorski, M. (2024). Values, bias and replicability. Synthese, 203, 164.

Sikorski, M., Gebharter, A., & Osimani, B. (Eds.). (forthcoming). Probabilistic reasoning in the sciences [Topical collection]. Synthese.

Sikorski, M., van Dongen, N., & Sprenger, J. (2024). Causal conditionals, tendency causal claims and statistical relevance. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 1, 1-26.

Gebharter, A., & Eronen, M. I. (2023). Quantifying proportionality and the limits of higher-level causation and explanation. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 74(3), 573-601. doi:10.1086/714818

Gebharter, A. & Feldbacher-Escamilla, C. J. (2023). Unification and explanation from a causal perspective. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 99, 28-36. doi:10.1016/j.shpsa.2022.12.005

Gebharter, A. & Hüttemann, A. (2023). Causal Bayes nets and token-causation: Closing the gap between token-level and type-level. Erkenntnis. Advance online publication. doi:10.1007/s10670-023-00684-5

Sikorski, M. (2023). Rethinking the acceptability and probability of indicative conditionals. In S. Kaufmann, D. Over, & G. Sharma (Eds.), Conditionals: Logic, linguistics, and psychology. Palgrave.

Sikorski, M., & Andreoletti, M. (2023). Epistemic functions of replicability in experimental sciences: Defending the orthodox view. Foundations of Science.

Fratianni, M., Gallegati, M., & Giri, F. (2022). The medium-run Phillips curve: A time-frequency investigation for the UK. The Journal of Macroeconomics, 73, 103450.

Gebharter, A. (2022). A causal Bayes net analysis of Glennan’s mechanistic account of higher-level causation (and some consequences). British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 73(1), 185–210. doi:10.1093/bjps/axz034

Gebharter, A., Sekatskaya, M., & Schurz, G. (2022). Free will, control, and the possibility to do otherwise from a causal modeler’s perspective. Erkenntnis, 87(4), 1889–1906. doi:10.1007/s10670- 020-00281-w

Matteucci, N., Santolini, R., & Di Fabio, S. (2022). ICT diffusion in public administrations and business dynamics: Evidence from Italian municipalities. Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics. Advance online publication. doi:10.1111/apce.12400

Osimani B., & Landes J. (2022). Formal models of inference for the variety of evidence hypothesis. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science – Short Reads. Retrieved from https://www.thebsps.org/short-reads/evidence-osimani-landes/

Picchio, M. (2022). Retirement and health outcomes in a meta-analytical framework. Journal of Economic Surveys. Advance online publication. doi:10.1111/joes.12527

Sikorski, M. (2022). The Ramsey test and evidential support theory. Journal of Logic, Language and Information, 31(3), 493-504.

Sikorski, M. (2022). Is forensic science in crisis? Synthese, 200(3), 1-34.

Baldoni, E., & Esposti, R. (2021). Agricultural productivity in space: An econometric assessment based on farm-level data. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 103(4), 1525-1544.

Catullo, E., Giri, F., & Gallegati, M. (2021). Macro and micro prudential policies: Sweet and lowdown in a credit network agent based model. Macroeconomic Dynamics, 25(5), 1227-1246.

de Grefte, J., & Gebharter, A. (2021). The causal theory of knowledge revisited: An interventionist approach. Ratio, 34(3), 193–202. doi:10.1111/rati.12304

Divella M., & Sterlacchini A. (2021). Determinants of sustainable & responsible innovations: A firm-level analysis for Italy. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 59, 360-374.

Engelhard, K., Feldbacher-Escamilla, C. J., Gebharter, A., & Seide, A. (Eds.). (2021). Inductive metaphysics: Contemporary and historical issues [Special issue]. Grazer Philosophische Studien, 98(1).

Engelhard, K., Feldbacher-Escamilla, C. J., Gebharter, A., & Seide, A. (2021). Inductive metaphysics: Editors’ introduction [Introduction]. Grazer Philosophische Studien, 98(1), 1–26. doi:10.1163/18756735-00000129

Feldbacher-Escamilla, C. J., & Gebharter, A. (2021). Introduction [Editorial]. Kriterion – Journal of Philosophy, 35(1), 1–4. doi:10.1515/krt-2021-0001

Gebharter, A., & Fischer, F. (2021). A causal Bayes net analysis of dispositions. Synthese, 198(5), 4873–4895. doi:10.1007/s11229-019-02374-8

Gebharter, A., & Koch, D. (2021). Combining causal Bayes nets and cellular automata: A hybrid modelling approach to mechanisms. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 72(3), 839– 864. doi:10.1093/bjps/axy049

Henderson, L., & Gebharter, A. (2021). The role of source reliability in belief polarisation. Synthese, 199(3–4), 10253–10276. doi:10.1007/s11229-021-03244-y

Jaspers, K. (2021). L’idea di Università / Die Idee der Universität (B. Osimani, Trans.). Bompiani.

Matteucci, N. (2021). Procuring NGA infrastructure: The performance of EMAT auctions in Italy. Telecommunications Policy, 45(1),102074.

Osimani, B., & Landes, J. (2021). Varieties of error and varieties of evidence in scientific inference. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. doi:10.1086/714803

Osimani, B., & Trpin, B. (Eds.). (2021). Section for the third edition of the Biannual East European Network of Philosophy of Science Conferences (EENPS) on PhilShi-Archive.

Picchio, M., Pigini, C., Staffolani, S., & Verashchagina, A. (2021). If not now, when? The timing of childbirth and labour market outcomes. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 36, 663-685.

van Dongen, N., & Sikorski, M. (2021). Objectivity for the research worker. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 11(3), 1-25.

Books

Osimani, B. (forthcoming). Statistical Evidence in Strategic Environments. New Directions in Philosophy of Science Series. Palgrave – Mac Millan.

Gebharter, A. (2017). Causal nets, interventionism, and mechanisms: Philosophical foundations and applications. Synthese Library 381. Cham: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-49908-6

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Forthcoming

2024

Gebharter, A., & Leuridan, B. (2024). Modelling cyclic causal structures. In P. M. K. Illari, & F. Russo (Eds.), Routledge handbook of causality and causal methods (pp. 269-280). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003528937-30

Gebharter, A., & Sekatskaya, M. (2024). Mental causation, interventionism, and probabilistic supervenience. Synthese. Advance online publication. doi:10.1007/s11229-024-04608-w

Sekatskaya, M., & Gebharter, A. (2024). Supervenient fixity and agential possibilities. Theoria. Advance online publication. doi:10.1111/theo.12551

Sikorski, M. (2024). Values, bias and replicability. Synthese, 203, 164.

Sikorski, M., van Dongen, N., & Sprenger, J. (2024). Causal conditionals, tendency causal claims and statistical relevance. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 1, 1-26.

2023

Gebharter, A., & Eronen, M. I. (2023). Quantifying proportionality and the limits of higher-level causation and explanation. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 74(3), 573-601. doi:10.1086/714818

Gebharter, A. & Feldbacher-Escamilla, C. J. (2023). Unification and explanation from a causal perspective. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 99, 28-36. doi:10.1016/j.shpsa.2022.12.005

Gebharter, A. & Hüttemann, A. (2023). Causal Bayes nets and token-causation: Closing the gap between token-level and type-level. Erkenntnis. Advance online publication. doi:10.1007/s10670-023-00684-5

Sikorski, M. (2023). Rethinking the acceptability and probability of indicative conditionals. In S. Kaufmann, D. Over, & G. Sharma (Eds.), Conditionals: Logic, linguistics, and psychology. Palgrave.

Sikorski, M., & Andreoletti, M. (2023). Epistemic functions of replicability in experimental sciences: Defending the orthodox view. Foundations of Science.

2022

Baldoni, E., & Esposti, R. (2021). Agricultural productivity in space: An econometric assessment based on farm-level data. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 103(4), 1525-1544.

Fratianni, M., Gallegati, M., & Giri, F. (2022). The medium-run Phillips curve: A time-frequency investigation for the UK. The Journal of Macroeconomics, 73, 103450.

Gebharter, A. (2022). A causal Bayes net analysis of Glennan’s mechanistic account of higher-level causation (and some consequences). British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 73(1), 185–210. doi:10.1093/bjps/axz034

Gebharter, A., Sekatskaya, M., & Schurz, G. (2022). Free will, control, and the possibility to do otherwise from a causal modeler’s perspective. Erkenntnis, 87(4), 1889–1906. doi:10.1007/s10670- 020-00281-w

Matteucci, N., Santolini, R., & Di Fabio, S. (2022). ICT diffusion in public administrations and business dynamics: Evidence from Italian municipalities. Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics. Advance online publication. doi:10.1111/apce.12400

Picchio, M. (2022). Retirement and health outcomes in a meta-analytical framework. Journal of Economic Surveys. Advance online publication. doi:10.1111/joes.12527

Sikorski, M. (2022). The Ramsey test and evidential support theory. Journal of Logic, Language and Information, 31(3), 493-504.

Sikorski, M. (2022). Is forensic science in crisis? Synthese, 200(3), 1-34.

2021

Catullo, E., Giri, F., & Gallegati, M. (2021). Macro and micro prudential policies: Sweet and lowdown in a credit network agent based model. Macroeconomic Dynamics, 25(5), 1227-1246.

de Grefte, J., & Gebharter, A. (2021). The causal theory of knowledge revisited: An interventionist approach. Ratio, 34(3), 193–202. doi:10.1111/rati.12304

Divella M., & Sterlacchini A. (2021). Determinants of sustainable & responsible innovations: A firm-level analysis for Italy. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 59, 360-374.

Gebharter, A., & Fischer, F. (2021). A causal Bayes net analysis of dispositions. Synthese, 198(5), 4873–4895. doi:10.1007/s11229-019-02374-8

Gebharter, A., & Koch, D. (2021). Combining causal Bayes nets and cellular automata: A hybrid modelling approach to mechanisms. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 72(3), 839– 864. doi:10.1093/bjps/axy049

Henderson, L., & Gebharter, A. (2021). The role of source reliability in belief polarisation. Synthese, 199(3–4), 10253–10276. doi:10.1007/s11229-021-03244-y

Matteucci, N. (2021). Procuring NGA infrastructure: The performance of EMAT auctions in Italy. Telecommunications Policy, 45(1),102074.

Osimani, B., & Landes, J. (2021). Varieties of error and varieties of evidence in scientific inference. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. doi:10.1086/714803

Picchio, M., Pigini, C., Staffolani, S., & Verashchagina, A. (2021). If not now, when? The timing of childbirth and labour market outcomes. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 36, 663-685.

van Dongen, N., & Sikorski, M. (2021). Objectivity for the research worker. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 11(3), 1-25.

2020

Albanese, A., Picchio, M., & Ghirelli, C. (2020). Timed to say goodbye: Does unemployment benefit eligibility affect worker layoffs? Labour Economics, 65, 101846.

Boem, F., Bonzio, S., Osimani, B., & Sacco, A. (2020). The Cochrane case: An epistemic analysis on decision-making and trust in science. Foundations of Science. doi:10.1007/s10699-020-09668-y

Divella M., & Sterlacchini A. (2020). Public procurement for innovation: firm-level evidence from Italy and Norway. Industrial and Corporate Change, 20, 1505-1520.

Feldbacher-Escamilla, C. J., & Gebharter, A. (2020). Confirmation based on analogical inference: Bayes meets Jeffrey. Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 50(2), 174–194. doi:10.1017/can.2019.18

Gebharter, A. (2020). Free will as a higher-level phenomenon? Thought: A Journal of Philosophy, 9(3), 177–187. doi:10.1002/tht3.461

Gebharter, A., & Retzlaff, N. (2020). A new proposal how to handle counterexamples to Markov causation à la Cartwright, or: Fixing the chemical factory. Synthese, 197(4), 1467–1486. doi:10.1007/s11229-018-02014-7

Landes, J., & Osimani, B. (2020). On the assessed strength of agents’ bias. Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 51, 525–549. doi:10.1007/s10838-020-09508-4

Matteucci, N. (2020). Digital agendas, regional policy and institutional quality: Assessing the Italian broadband plan. Regional Studies, 54(9), 1304-1316.

Osimani, B. (2020). Social games and epistemic losses: Reliability and higher order evidence in medicine and pharmacology. In B. Osimani, A. La Caze (Eds.), Uncertainty in pharmacology: Epistemology, methods and decisions ( pp. 345–372). Boston Studies in Philosophy of Science. Springer.

Osimani, B., Ilardo, M. L., & Castaldo, P. (2020). Science as a weapon of mass distraction: The virus warfare. MEDIC, 28(1): 1-20.

Quaglione, D., Matteucci, N., Furia, D., Marra, A., & Pozzi, C. (2020). Are mobile and fixed broadband substitutes or complements? New empirical evidence from Italy and implications for the digital divide policies. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 71, 100823.

Sterlacchini A. (2020). Trends and determinants of energy innovations: Patents, environmental policies and oil prices. Journal of Economic Policy Reform, 23, 49-66.

2019

Ahmad, Y. A., Auker-Howlett, D., Landes, J., Mulla, G., Jacob, C, & Osimani, B. (2019). Reviewing the mechanistic evidence assessors e-synthesis and EBM+: A case study of amoxicillin and drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS). Current Pharmaceutical Design, 25(16). doi:10.2174/1381612825666190628160603 14

Cova, F., Olivola, C., Machery, E., Stich, S., Osimani, B. et al (2019). De pulchritudine non est disputandum? A cross-cultural investigation of the alleged intersubjective validity of aesthetic judgment. Mind & Language, 34, 317–338. doi:10.1111/mila.12210

Cockx, B., Picchio, M., & Baert, S. (2019). Modeling the effects of grade retention in high school. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 34, 403-424.

De Pretis, F., Landes, J., & Osimani, B. (2019). E-synthesis: A Bayesian framework for causal assessment in pharmacosurveillance. Frontiers in Pharmacology, 10, 1317. doi:10.3389/fphar.2019.01317

De Pretis, F., & Osimani, B. (2019). New insights in computational methods for pharmacovigilance: E-synthesis, a Bayesian framework for causal assessment. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(12), 2221. doi:10.3390/ijerph16122221

Feldbacher-Escamilla, C. J., & Gebharter, A. (2019). Modeling creative abduction Bayesian style. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 9(1), 9. doi:10.1007/s13194-018-0234-4

Gallegati, M., Giri, F., & Palestrini, A. (2019). DSGE model with financial frictions over subsets of business cycle frequencies. Journal of Economic Dynamic and Control, 100, 152-163.

Gebharter, A., Graemer, D., & Scheffels, F. H. (2019). Establishing backward causation on empirical grounds: An interventionist approach. Thought: A Journal of Philosophy, 8(2), 129–138. doi:10.1002/tht3.414

Giri, F., Riccetti, L., Russo, A., & Gallegati, M. (2019). Monetary policy and large crises in a financial accelerator agent-based model. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 157, 42-58.

Hannikainen, I. R., Machery, E., Rose, D., Stich, S., et al. (2019). For whom does determinism undermine moral responsibility? Surveying the conditions for free will across cultures. Frontiers in Psychology, section Cognitive Science, 10. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02428

Matteucci, N. (2019). The EU State aid policy for broadband: An evaluation of the Italian experience with first generation networks. Telecommunications Policy, 43(9), 101830.

Osimani, B., & Poellinger, R. (2019) Causal inference from computer simulation. In M. Bertolaso, & F. Sterpetti (Eds.), A critical reflection on automated science (pp. 173–215). Springer.

Rose, D., Machery, E., Stich, S., Alai, M., Angelucci, A., Berniūnas, R., Buchtel, E.E., Chatterjee, A., Cheon, H., Cho, I.-R., Cohnitz, D., Cova, F., Dranseika, V., Lagos, Á.E., Ghadakpour, L., Grinberg, M., Hannikainen, I., Hashimoto, T., Horowitz, A., Hristova, E., Jraissati, Y., Kadreva, V., Karasawa, K., Kim, H., Kim, Y., Lee, M., Mauro, C., Mizumoto, M., Moruzzi, S., Olivola, C.Y., Ornelas, J., Osimani, B., Romero, C., Rosas Lopez, A., Sangoi, M., Sereni, A., Songhorian, S., Sousa, P., Struchiner, N., Tripodi, V., Usui, N., Vázquez del Mercado, A., Volpe, G., Vosgerichian, H.A., Zhang, X. and Zhu, J. (2019). Nothing at stake in knowledge. Noûs, 53, 224–247. doi:10.1111/nous.12211

Rose, D., Machery, E., Stich, S., Zhu, J., Osimani, B. et al. (2019). The ship of Theseus puzzle. In Oxford studies in experimental philosophy, volume 3.

Sterlacchini A., & Venturini F. (2019). R&D tax incentives in EU countries: Does the impact vary with firm size? Small Business Economics, 53, 687-708.

2018

Giri, F. (2018). Does interbank market matter for business cycle fluctuation? An estimated DSGE model with financial frictions for the Euro area. Economic Modelling, 75, 10-22.

Landes, J., Osimani, B., & Poellinger, R. (2018). Epistemology of causal inference in pharmacology: Towards a framework for the assessment of harms. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 8(1), 3–49. doi:10.1007/s13194-017-0169-1

Osimani, B., Bertolaso, M., Frontoni, E., & Poellinger, R. (2018). Real and virtual clinical trials: A formal analysis. TOPOI. doi:10.1007/s11245-018-9563-3

Picchio, M., Suetens, S., & van Ours, J. C. (2018). Labour supply effects of winning a lottery. The Economic Journal, 128, 1700-1729.

2017

Aristei D., Sterlacchini A., & Venturini F. (2017). Effectiveness of R&D subsidies during the crisis: Firm-level evidence across EU countries. Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 26, 554-573.

Esposti, R. (2017). The empirics of decoupling: Alternative estimation approaches of the farm-level production response. European Review of Agricultural Economics, 44(3), 499-537.

Gebharter, A. (2017). Causal exclusion and causal Bayes nets. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 95(2), 353–375. doi:10.1111/phpr.12247

Gebharter, A. (2017). Causal exclusion without physical completeness and no overdetermination. Abstracta – Linguagem, Mente e Ação, 10, 3–10.

Gebharter, A. (2017). Uncovering constitutive relevance relations in mechanisms. Philosophical Studies, 174(11), 2645–2666. doi:10.1007/s11098-016-0803-3

Koch, D., Eisinger, R., & Gebharter, A. (2017). A causal Bayesian network model of disease progression mechanisms in chronic myeloid leukemia. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 433, 94– 105. doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2017.08.023

Machery, E., Stich, S., Rose, D., Osimani B. et al. (2017). The Gettier intuition from South America to Asia. Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 34, 517–541. doi:10.1007/s40961-017-0113-y

Rose, D., Machery, E., Stich, S., Alai, M., Angelucci, A., Berniunas, R., Buchtel, E. E., Chatterjee, A., Cheon, H., Cho, I.-R., Cohnitz, D., Cova, F., Dranseika, V., Lagos, ç. E., Ghadakpour, L., Grinberg, M., Hannikainen, I., Hashimoto, T., Horowitz, A., Hristova, E., Jraissati, Y., Kadreva, V., Karasawa, K., Kim, H., Kim, Y., Lee, M., Mauro, C., Mizumoto, M., Moruzzi, S., Olivola, C. Y., Ornelas, J., Osimani, B., Romero, C., Rosas, A., Sangoi, M., Sereni, A., Songhorian, S., Sousa, P., Struchiner, N., Tripodi, V., Usui, N., del Mercado, A. V., Volpe, G., Vosgerichian, H. A., Zhang, X. and Zhu, J. (2017). Behavioral circumscription and the folk psychology of belief: A study in ethno-mentalizing. Thought: A Journal of Philosophy, 6, 193–203. doi:10.1002/tht3.248

2016

Baumgartner, M., & Gebharter, A. (2016). Constitutive relevance, mutual manipulability, and fat-handedness. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 67(3), 731–756. doi:10.1093/bjps/axv003

Gebharter, A. (2016). Another problem with RBN models of mechanisms. Theoria – An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 31(2), 177–188. doi:10.1387/theoria.14502

Gebharter, A., & Schurz, G. (2016). A modeling approach for mechanisms featuring causal cycles. Philosophy of Science, 83(5), 934–945. doi:10.1086/687876

Schurz, G., & Gebharter, A. (2016). Causality as a theoretical concept: Explanatory warrant and empirical content of the theory of causal nets. Synthese, 193(4), 1073–1103. doi:10.1007/s11229- 014-0630-z

2015

Canto, Y, & Osimani, B. (2015). How much familial is genetic information? Bioetica, 19(1), 11–24.

Osimani, B., & Mignini, F. (2015). Causal assessment of pharmaceutical treatments: Why standards of evidence should not be the same for benefits and harms. Drug Safety, 38(19), 1–11.

Osimani, B., & Russo, F. (2015). Bayesianisme objectif et principe de précaution. In I. Drouet (Eds.), Les approches et méthodes Bayésiennes. Matériologiques.

2014

Coderoni, S., & Esposti, R. (2014). Is there a long-term relationship between agricultural GHG emissions and productivity growth? A dynamic panel data approach. Environmental and Resource Economics, 58(2), 273-302.

Gebharter, A. (2014). A formal framework for representing mechanisms? Philosophy of Science, 81(1), 138–153. doi:10.1086/674206

Gebharter, A., & Kaiser M. I. (2014). Causal graphs and biological mechanisms. In M. I. Kaiser, O. Scholz, D. Plenge, & A. Hüttemann (Eds.), Explanation in the special sciences: The case of biology and history (pp. 55–85). Synthese Library 367. Dordrecht: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-94- 007-7563-3_3

Gebharter, A., & Schurz, G. (2014). How Occam’s razor provides a neat definition of direct causation. In J. M. Mooij, D. Janzing, J. Peters, T. Claassen, & A. Hyttinen (Eds.), Proceedings of the UAI workshop Causal Inference: Learning and Prediction. Retrieved from http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1274/uai2014ci_paper1.pdf

Osimani, B. (2014). Causing something to be one way rather than another: Genetic information, causal specificity and the relevance of linear order. Kybernetes, 43(6): 865–81. doi:10.1108/K-07-2013-0149

Osimani B. (2014) Safety vs. efficacy assessment of pharmaceuticals: Epistemological rationales and methods. Preventive Medicine Reports, 1, 9-13. doi:10.1016/j.pmedr.2014.08.002

2013

Gebharter, A. (2013). Solving the flagpole problem. Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 44(1), 63–67. doi:10.1007/s10838-013-9208-6

Osimani, B. (2013). An epistemic analysis of the precautionary principle. Dilemata: International Journal of Applied Ethics, 11, 149–167.

Osimani, B. (2013). Hunting side effects and explaining them: Should we reverse evidence hierarchies upside down? Topoi, 33(2), 295–312. doi:10.1007/s11245-013-9194-7

Osimani, B. (2013). The precautionary principle in the pharmaceutical domain: A philosophical enquiry into probabilistic reasoning and risk aversion. Health, Risk and Society, 15(2), 123–143. doi:10.1080/13698575.2013.771736

Osimani, B. (2013). Until RCT-proven? On the asymmetry of evidence requirements for risk assessment. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 19, 454–462. doi:10.1111/jep.12039

2012

Aluas, M., Colombetti, E., Osimani, B., Musio, A., & Pessina, A. (2012). Disability, human rights, and the international classification of functioning, disability, and health: Systematic review. American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, 91, S146–154.

Colombetti, E., Osimani, B., Aluas, M., Pessina, A., & Musio, A. (2012). Revision of international classification of functioning, disability and health ethical guidelines. American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, 155–158.

Osimani, B. (2012). Il contributo delle teorie filosofiche della causalita al dibattito sull’informazione genetica. MEDIC, 20(2), 19–46.

Osimani, B. (2012). Risk information processing and rational ignoring in the health context. Journal of Socio-Economics, 41, 169–179. doi:10.1016/j.socec.2011.10.009

2011

Gebharter, A., & Mirnig, A. G. (2011). The argument from hallucination in the light of modern formal philosophy. In S. Alpsancar, & K. Denker (Eds.), Tagungsband der Nachwuchstagungen für Junge Philosophie in Darmstadt (pp. 85–96). Marburg: Tectum.

Osimani, B. (2011). Is the precautionary principle risk aversive? An enquiry in the domain of pharmaceutical decisions. Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai – Bioethica, LVI(2), 57–70.

Osimani, B. (2011). Per una formalizzazione bayesiana del principio di precauzione. In E. Pariotti, G. Guerra, M. Piccinni, & D. Ruggiu (Eds.). Regolamentazione, forme di responsabilitˆ e nanotecnologie Dipartimento di Diritto comparato dell’Universita di Padova – CIGA, Il Mulino.

Osimani B., Russo, F., Williamson, J. (2011). Scientific evidence and the law: An objective Bayesian formalisation of the precautionary principle in pharmaceutical regulation. Journal of Philosophy, Science and Law 11.

2010

Gebharter, A., & Mirnig, A. G. (2010). Disjunctivism: An answer to two pseudo problems? Conceptus, 39(95), 61–84. doi:10.1515/cpt-2010-9503

Gebharter, A., & Mirnig, A. G. (2010). From a mereotopological point of view: Putting the scientific magnifying glass on Kant’s first antinomy. Kriterion – Journal of Philosophy, 23(1), 64–85.

Osimani, B. (2010). Pharmaceutical risk communication: Sources of uncertainty and legal tools of uncertainty management. Health Risk and Society, 12(5), 453–469.

2009

Osimani, B. (2009). Modus tollens probabilized: Deductive and inductive methods in medical diagnosis. MEDIC, 17(1-2), 43–59.

2008

Esposti, R., & Bussoletti, S. (2008). Impact of Objective 1 funds on regional growth convergence in the European Union: A panel-data approach. Regional Studies, 42(2), 159-173.

Osimani, B. (2008). “In Dubio Pro Securitate” – Response to “Can a Cell have a Soul?”, BMJ, 336, 1132. doi:10.1136/bmj.39581.436875.94

2007

Esposti, R. (2007). Regional growth and policies in the European Union: Does the common agricultural policy have a counter-treatment effect? American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 89(1), 116-134.

Osimani, B. (2007). The epistemic nature of package leaflet information: A contribution to the legal debate on the role of package leaflets in therapeutic consent. MEDIC, 72-90. doi:10.5282/ubm/epub.29384

Edited Volumes

Sikorski, M., Gebharter, A., & Osimani, B. (Eds.). (forthcoming). Probabilistic reasoning in the sciences [Topical collection]. Synthese.

Engelhard, K., Feldbacher-Escamilla, C. J., Gebharter, A., & Seide, A. (Eds.). (2021). Inductive metaphysics: Contemporary and historical issues [Special issue]. Grazer Philosophische Studien, 98(1).

Osimani, B., & Trpin, B. (Eds.). (2021). Section for the third edition of the Biannual East European Network of Philosophy of Science Conferences (EENPS) on PhilShi-Archive.

Bonzio, S., Landes, J., & Osimani, B. (Eds.). (2020). Reliability [Special issue]. Synthese, 198(suppl. 23).

Feldbacher-Escamilla, C. J., Gebharter, A., Brössel, P., & Werning, M. (Eds.). (2020). Logical perspectives on science and cognition [Special issue]. Synthese, 197(4).

Osimani, B., & La Caze, A. (Eds.). (2020). Uncertainty in pharmacology: Epistemology, methods and decisions. Boston Series in the History and Philosophy of Science. Springer.

Jacob, C., Osimani, B., & Ruthenberg, K. (Eds.). (2019). Societal side effects: The wider impact of pharmaceuticals on society [Special issue]. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(3).

Feldbacher-Escamilla, C. J., Gebharter, A., & Schurz, G. (Eds.). (2017). Selected papers of the second conference of the German Society for Philosophy of Science (GWP), Düsseldorf, March 8–11, 2016 [Special issue]. Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 48(3).

Gebharter, A., & Schurz, G. (Eds.). (2016). Causation, probability, and truth – the philosophy of Clark Glymour [Special issue]. Synthese, 193(4).

Gebharter, A., & Schurz, G. (Eds.). (2014). Explanation, causality, and unification [Monographic section]. Theoria – An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 29(1), 3–82.

Osimani, B. (Ed.). (2012). Genetic information: Epistemological, anthropological and ethical issues. MEDIC, Methodology and Innovation for Clinical Innovation, 20,(2).

Anglberger, A. J. J., Feldbacher, C. J., Gebharter, A., & Gugerell, S. H. (Eds.). (2011). Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy 2010 [Special issue]. Kriterion – Journal of Philosophy, 25(1).

Other Publications

Osimani B., & Landes J. (2022). Formal models of inference for the variety of evidence hypothesis. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science – Short Reads. Retrieved from https://www.thebsps.org/short-reads/evidence-osimani-landes/

Feldbacher-Escamilla, C. J., & Gebharter, A. (2021). Introduction [Editorial]. Kriterion – Journal of Philosophy, 35(1), 1–4. doi:10.1515/krt-2021-0001

Engelhard, K., Feldbacher-Escamilla, C. J., Gebharter, A., & Seide, A. (2021). Inductive metaphysics: Editors’ introduction [Introduction]. Grazer Philosophische Studien, 98(1), 1–26. doi:10.1163/18756735-00000129

Jaspers, K. (2021). L’idea di Università / Die Idee der Universität (B. Osimani, Trans.). Bompiani.

La Caze, A., & Osimani, B. (2020). Uncertainty in pharmacology: Epistemology, methods and decisions [editorial]. In B. Osimani, A. La Caze (Eds.), Uncertainty in pharmacology: Epistemology, methods and decisions. Boston Studies in Philosophy of Science. Springer.

Feldbacher-Escamilla, C. J., Gebharter, A., Brössel, B., & Werning, M. (2020). Introduction to the special issue “Logical perspectives on science and cognition” [Introduction]. Synthese, 197(4), 1381–1390. doi:10.1007/s11229-019-02334-2

Osiman,i B. (2018). What’s hot in mathematical philosophy: Formal epistemology of medicine. The Reasoner, 12(2), 15–16.

Osimani, B., Aronson, J., Anjum, R., Crupi, V., Edwards, R., Holman, B., Lindquist, M., Rocca, E., & Smart, B. (2018). Roundtable on philosophy of evidence: Dimensions of evidence and criteria for standards improvement. BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine. doi:10.1136/bmjebm-2018-111024

Christian A., Feldbacher-Escamilla, C. J., & Gebharter, A. (2017). The second international conference of the German Society for Philosophy of Science (GWP.2016), 8–11 March 2016 [Conference report]. Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 48(2), 289–291. doi:10.1007/s10838- 016-9358-4

Feldbacher-Escamilla, C. J., Gebharter, A., & Schurz, G. (2017). Philosophy of science between the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities [Introduction]. Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 48(3), 317–326. doi:10.1007/s10838-017-9378-8

Christian, A., Feldbacher, C. J., & Gebharter, A. (2016). Spotlight on the Düsseldorf Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science (DCLPS). EPSA Newsletter. Retrieved March 1, 2016, from http://philsci.eu/Newsletter-01-2016-Spotlight-on-Research

Gebharter, A., & Schurz, G. (2016). Introduction to the special issue “Causation, probability, and truth – the philosophy of Clark Glymour” [Introduction]. Synthese, 193(4), 1007–1010. doi:10.1007/s11229-015-1007-7

Schurz, G., & Gebharter, A. (2016). Erratum to: Causality as a theoretical concept: Explanatory warrant and empirical content of the theory of causal nets [Erratum]. Synthese, 193(4), 1105–1106. doi:10.1007/s11229-016-1019-y

Christian, A., Feldbacher, C. J., Gebharter, A., & Retzlaff, N. (2015). European Philosophy of Science Association, 23–26 September [Conference report]. The Reasoner, 9(11), 95.

Gebharter, A. (2015). Erratum to: Solving the flagpole problem [Erratum]. Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 46(2), 425. doi:10.1007/s10838-015-9311-y

Gebharter, A. (2014). Addendum to “A formal framework for representing mechanisms?” [Addendum]. Retrieved September 25, 2014, from http://philpapers.org/archive/GEBATQ.pdf

Gebharter, A., & Schurz, G. (2014). Editors’ introduction [Introduction]. Theoria – An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 29(1), 5–7. doi:10.1387/theoria.10708

Unterhuber, M., Gebharter, A., & Schurz, G. (2014). Philosophy of science in Germany, 1992–2012: Survey-based overview and quantitative analysis. Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 45(1, suppl.), 71–160. doi:10.1007/s10838-014-9270-8

Hempel, C. G. (2013). Wissenschaft und menschliche Werte (A. Gebharter, Trans.). In G. Schurz, & M. Carrier (Eds.), Werte in den Wissenschaften: Neue Ansätze zum Werturteilsstreit (pp. 118–140). Berlin: Suhrkamp. (Original work published 1965).

Unterhuber, M., & Gebharter, A. (2013). The philosophy of Clark Glymour, 13–15 June [Conference report]. The Reasoner, 7(9), 109.

Anglberger, A. J. J., Feldbacher, C. J., Gebharter, A., & Gugerell, S. H. (2012). Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy 2011 [Conference report]. Kriterion – Journal of Philosophy, 26(1), 104–109.

Gebharter, A., & Schurz, G. (2012). For a better understanding of causality [Review of the book Causality in the sciences, by P. M. K. Illari, F. Russo, & J. Williamson (Eds.)]. Metascience, 21(3), 643–648. doi:10.1007/s11016-012-9648-3

Osimani, B. (2012). Genetic information: Epistemological, anthropological and ethical Issues [editorial]. MEDIC, 20(2), 10–18.

Schurz, G., & Gebharter, A. (2012). Explanation, causality, and unification, 11–12 November [Conference report]. The Reasoner, 6(1), 9–10.