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2004, 'Low fertility among women graduates', People and Place, 12, pp. 37 - 44
,2004, 'On the parallel between mathematics and morals', Philosophy, 79, pp. 97 - 119
,2004, 'Randomness and the justification of induction', Synthese, 138, pp. 79 - 99
,2003, 'Book reviews', Sophia, 42, pp. 135 - 148, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02782405
,2003, 'Dynamic context generation for natural language understanding: A multifaceted knowledge approach', IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part A - Systems and Humans, 33, pp. 23 - 41
,2003, 'The representation of context: ideas from artificial intelligence', Law, Probability and Risk, 2, pp. 191 - 199
,2002, 'Stove's discovery of the Worst Argument in the World (Philosophy)', PHILOSOPHY, 77, pp. 615 - 624, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0031819102000487
,2002, 'A `Professional Issues` course: Grounding Philosophy in Workplace', The Pantaneto Forum, 7
,2002, 'Stove`s discovery of the worst argument in the world', Philosophy, 77, pp. 615 - 624
,2002, 'Two caricatures, II: Leibniz`s best world', International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 52, pp. 45 - 56
,2001, 'Resurrecting logical probability', Erkenntnis, pp. 277 - 305
,2000, 'The Sokal hoax and postmodernist embarrassment', Continuum : Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 14, pp. 359 - 362
,2000, 'Thomas Kuhn`s irrationalism', new criterion, 18, pp. 29 - 34
,1999, 'Accountancy as computational casuistics', Australian Accounting Review, pp. 36 - 43
,1999, 'Catholics versus Masons', Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society, 20, pp. 1 - 15
,1999, 'Mathematical jobs for the talented', Australian Mathematical Society Gazette, pp. 222 - 226
,1999, 'Reviews', Metascience, 8, pp. 288 - 345, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02913270
,1999, 'Structure and domain-independence in the formal sciences', Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, pp. 721 - 723
,1999, 'The Sydney philosophy disturbances', Quadrant, pp. 16 - 21
,1998, 'Two caricatures, I, Pascal's wager', INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION, 44, pp. 109 - 114, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=000076652300003&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,1998, 'Afterword', Anything goes, pp. 195 - 198
,1998, 'Gross moral turpitude: The Orr case', Codex (Australia's internet journal of ideas), pp. -- - --
,1998, 'Symbolic connectionism in natural language disambiguation', IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, pp. 739 - 755
,1998, 'Two caricatures, I: Pascal`s wager', International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, pp. 109 - 114
,1997, 'Global and Local', Aurora: Turun Yliopisto, 36, pp. 4 - 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00283-014-9482-0
,1997, 'Stove`s Anti-Darwinism', Philosophy, pp. 133 - 136
,1997, 'The language of chance', International Statistical Review, pp. 73 - 85
,1997, 'Where is mathematics going?', Australian Mathematical Society Gazette, pp. 114 - 119
,1996, 'Catholic thought and catholic action: Dr Paddy Ryan MSC and the Red peril', Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society, 17, pp. 44 - 55
,1996, 'Quasi mental clusters: a neural model of knowledge discovery in narrative contexts', Cybernetics and Systems (Online), pp. 1069 - 1101
,1995, 'Philosophy, mathematics and structure: interview, Winter 1995', Philosopher, 1, pp. 31 - 38
,1995, 'The language of chance', Bulletin of the International Statisticsl Institute, pp. 1207 - 1223
,1994, 'SKEPTICISMS HEALTH BUOYANT', PHILOSOPHY, 69, pp. 503 - 504, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0031819100047318
,1994, 'The formal sciences discover the philosophers' stone', Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 25, pp. 513 - 533, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0039-3681(94)90045-0
,1993, 'Fuzzy Logic for Automatic Finite Element Mesh Generation', Computer‐Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, 8, pp. 1 - 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8667.1993.tb00188.x
,1991, 'ETHICS OF MATHEMATICS', MATHEMATICAL INTELLIGENCER, 13, pp. 4 - 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF03024064
,1991, 'Letters to the editor', The Mathematical Intelligencer, 13, pp. 4 - 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF03024064
,1991, 'Healthy Scepticism', Philosophy, 66, pp. 305 - 324, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0031819100064913
,1991, 'REFLECTIONS ON GODEL,KURT - WANG,H', HISTORY OF EUROPEAN IDEAS, 13, pp. 637 - 638, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0191-6599(91)90079-E
,1990, 'CHANCE AND STRUCTURE - VICKERS,JM', HISTORY OF EUROPEAN IDEAS, 12, pp. 313 - 314, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0191-6599(90)90268-J
,1990, 'THE EMPIRE OF CHANCE - HOW PROBABILITY CHANGED SCIENCE AND EVERYDAY LIFE - GIGERENZER,G, SWIJTINK,Z, PORTER,T, DASTON,L, BEATTY,J, KRUGER,L', HISTORY OF EUROPEAN IDEAS, 12, pp. 572 - 573, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0191-6599(90)90031-9
,1989, 'Mathematical necessity and reality', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 67, pp. 286 - 294, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00048408912350131
,1989, 'Species in aristotle', Philosophy, 64, pp. 107 - 108, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0031819100044090
,1988, 'Homomorphisms between Verma modules in characteristic p', Journal of Algebra, 112, pp. 58 - 85, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0021-8693(88)90132-9
,1988, 'Reply to armstrong on dispositions', Philosophical Quarterly, 38, pp. 86 - 87, http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2220270
,1987, 'Non-deductive logic in mathematics', British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 38, pp. 1 - 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjps/38.1.1
,1986, 'Are dispositions reducible to categorical properties?', Philosophical Quarterly, 36, pp. 62 - 64, http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2219311
,1986, 'Aristotle on Species Variation', Philosophy, 61, pp. 245 - 252, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0031819100021094
,1984, 'NATURAL-SCIENCES AS TEXTUAL INTERPRETATION - THE HERMENEUTICS OF THE NATURAL SIGN', PHILOSOPHY AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH, 44, pp. 509 - 520, http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2107616
,1983, 'Philosophy and mathematical modelling', Teaching Mathematics and its Applications, 2, pp. 118 - 119, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/teamat/2.3.118
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