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  Yafeng Shan | Philosopher

Book chapters

Shan, Yafeng. 2024. “The Historiography of Scientific Revolutions.” In Handbook of the Historiography of Science, edited by Mauro L. Condé and Marlon Salomon. Cham: Springer. [preprint]

Shan, Yafeng, Samuel D. Taylor, and Jon Williamson. commissioned. “Epistemic Causality and Its Application to the Social and Cognitive Sciences.” In Alternative Approaches to Causation, edited by Yafeng Shan. Oxford: Oxford University Press.


Shan, Yafeng. 2022. “The Functional Approach: Scientific Progress as Increased Usefulness.” In New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress, edited by Yafeng Shan, 46-61. New York: Routledge. [preprint] [access]

Shan, Yafeng. 2022. “Introduction: Philosophical Analyses of Scientific Progress.” In New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress, edited by Yafeng Shan, 1-9. New York: Routledge. [preprint] [access]


Shan, Yafeng. 2021. “Mendel on Developmental Information.” In Information and the History of Philosophy, edited by Chris Meyns, 262–80. London: Routledge.
DOI: 10.4324/9781351130752-20 [access]

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  • Publications
    • Monographs >
      • Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics (Springer, 2020)
    • Edited Volumes
    • Special Issues
    • Journal Articles
    • Book Chapters
  • Events
    • The Kuhn Centennial Conference (Kent, 2022)
    • Causation in Biology Conference (Kent, 2022)
    • MMR and Causal Inference Workshop (Kent, 2022)
    • Causation Conference (Kent, 2021)
    • Analogical Reasoning Workshop (Kent, 2021)
    • Metaphilosophy Conference (Kent, 2021)
    • Evidential Pluralism and the Social Sciences Conference (Kent, 2020)
    • Historiography of Genetics Workshop (Tel Aviv, 2019)
  • Selected Talks
  • Media Coverage
  • Contact